Anyone who wonders how corrupt Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo keeps getting re-elected just has to look at last week’s food distribution gimmick.
Over three days, Carollo says he distributed 7,000 bags of food to families in District 3 for the holidays. The bags weighed 50 pounds and were valued at $100. Some included a donated pork pernil for the traditional Cuban Noche Buena meal. His staff went to three different parks to distribute the red bags. A lot of elderly voters got them delivered to their homes.
His office said it was the largest food distribution in the state of Florida.
“It’s become a tradition,” Carollo told Univision 23. “I think this year more than any other, with the high cost of living and inflation, our people are much more needy.”
So is the commissioner.
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This PR move comes just as talk returns about another recall effort to oust Carollo. He’s more vulnerable now that he’s attacked the homeless population, suggesting a concentration camp on Virginia Key, and divided Coconut Grove into three districts so he could protect his home from a lawsuit. He has also cost the city millions in lawsuits and illegal street closures along Coral Way.
An effort to recall Carollo in 2020 died in court after the commissioner’s lawyers and city attorneys argued that the 1,900 plus signatures had been delivered late. Miami-Dade Judge Martin Fine ruled the signatures — which were turned in electronically the day before the deadline — valid. They were delivered physically a day after, however, and a three-judge appeals panel ruled that they were not valid because there is no language on electronic delivery in the law.
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Former City Manager Joe Arriola — who funded much of the first recall campaign — was on Raul Martinez‘s Sin Mordaza podcast recently saying that he was ready to start another recall. Denise Galvez, an active citizen who ran for office in District 4, has been on social media calling Carollo out and encouraging another recall effort.
“Stand in line and get your free $100 bag of food paid for by our tax dollars,” wrote Galvez on her city watchdog Instagram account, mentioning the $700,000 in value, according to his own press release.
“Money that won’t be going to any actual city needs like cleaning our streets, providing more police … affordable housing or rent-relief for people getting evicted,” Galvez said. “But then again, it’s really all about solidifying his base and getting people to vote for him in elections or perhaps in upcoming recall he will defend in 2023.
“This is how Carollo keeps winning elections,” she wrote. “He buys off his voters every chance he gets!”
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There appears to be no adult supervision at the City of Miami…
Criminal Carollo and his buddy Alex DLP want LED billboards everywhere? Ruining views…?
” Our Miami-Dade streets’ lane markings are hardly legible, faded from long waits for re-painting. One would think our cities had fallen on hard times. ”
LOL I have been posting this over 3 years . I emailed EVERY city Cosa Nostra Mayor and was told this obligation belonged to Mayor Gimenez .
I emailed him twice with pictures and the response both times was ” We have someone on it , looking into it ” .
NOTHING was done .
I emailed Mayor Cava who I do not consider Cosa Nostra because she does not work for developers , much to her credit but in her case I never received a reply and she is another one who ignores basic city maintenance .
I work at night and when it rains you see some drive in middle of roads as no street lines .
I see the faded lines or just know to stay in my lane but plenty do not .
A drunk driver , texting and no street lines is a sight to behold at 4 am .
I think most who post here are in Coral Gables or Miami beach so might be different there but rest of Miami , ESPECIALLY intersections are the worse .
Some busy intersections off Sweet Water are just one big street without any lines as all faded .
You would think these local Mayors would care but they do not , they just kick the can down the street .
If I’m a Mayor I am going to make sure street lines are painted , have it done on a week day like 2 am to 3 am as not to hold up traffic but either way I will not ” Mañana People style ” kick the can down the road .
A new over pass construction was finally finished bit over a year ago by Coral Way and the white paint was the standard Miami watered down 4 times , however that I was able to have it repainted by taking pics emailing State Dept of transportation .
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People laugh at me , mock me for being this way , I do not blame them one bit , LOL but bothers me when plenty of money for everything else but actual city maintenance / public safety .
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” It is not his fault to be elected. It is the people who vote for him who are at fault.”
I vote for anyone who runs against him and rest of the Cosa Nostra Commissioners but those who vote I respect .
The people who sicken me and if my call would all be deported even if born here , lol are the people who do not vote and that is the MAJORITY of Miami .
Apathetic dead weight and you see it at work , etc , etc.
Miami is wall to wall apathy and it is everywhere not just politics .
I hate to post that here because there is no apathy here , also plenty read this forum but do not post so sometimes I tick off those I do not mean to tick off but the apathy in Miami is legendary in Florida .
Seems to have been this way for decades .
”Miami apathy angers victimized tourists”
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/10/16/miami-apathy-angers-victimized-tourists/
Joe Carollo is such a creep. Over the strong objections of art experts and the Ferre family Carollo forced taxpayers to pay over $1 million for a pack of ugly dogs created by a friend of his wife’s. And these dog sculptures were installed in Ferre Park. Total waste of the taxpayers money.
Joe Carollo is demanding the City allow massive LED billboards in very busy parks facing busy State roads. Carollo is corrupt. Residents hate seeing the distracting ads which change every 8 seconds. Carollo is bought off.
It is not his fault to be elected. It is the people who vote for him who are at fault.
Our Miami-Dade streets’ lane markings are hardly legible, faded from long waits for re-painting. One would think our cities had fallen on hard times.
Joe Carollo is a corrupt criminal.
The entire City of Miami is criminally corrupt and run like a RICO mob organization.
Good Luck because no one with any authority cares at all.