Trapeze man launches revenge mayoral campaign vs Daniella Levine Cava

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Trapeze man launches revenge mayoral campaign vs Daniella Levine Cava
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La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava, who announced her re-election campaign only two weeks earlier, has her first challenger already. Miguel “El Skipper” Quintero, a trapeze artist/teacher and creator of the Miami Circus YouTube channel, filed paperwork Tuesday with the county elections department about his new campaign account.

It’s not that he’s got a burning desire to serve the public. Quintero just wants to stick it to the mayor for not calling him back.

“Ultimately, I’m pushed into it because I’ve caught the county doing a bunch of illegal things, I’ve requested four meetings with my commissioner and the mayor to discuss these actions and I’ve been ignored,” Quintero told Ladra.

By “illegal things,” este loco means violations that he’s gotten on the trailer parked on his property and the county “denying permits” for his trapeze school, Quintero says. “They are retaliating against my first amendment activities.”

So, he’s going to retaliate against them by running for office.

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Quintero lives in District 2 and said he had tried to contact former Commissioner Jean Monestime a bunch of times. But he hasn’t even called newly-elected Commissioner Marleine Bastien. Ladra told him he should. Monestime was a nice guy, but also a lame duck with no motivation to help him. Bastien needs constituents to re-elect her in four years.

“The damage is done. I’m running for mayor,” Quintero said. “”I’m going to have a full transparency campaign and an accountability campaign.

“People really believe that Miami is a Banana Republic. I plan to film the whole process for my YouTube channel.”

That’s the other reason he is running. It’s content. His channel, Miami Circus, has both trapeze and government videos. Very appropriate.

Quintero’s videos are pretty good. Ladra particularly liked one about how difficult it is for the public to participate in county commission meetings.

He might sound a little delusional about the race, but the Dade Christian graduate (class of 1997) has one really good idea.

“Once I win the election, I’m going to put a live camera stream in the office, because it’s the people’s office.”

Can we do that part anyway? The live stream? Alcaldesa?

“I’m going to show people that they don’t always have to pick between the lesser of two evils. Regular people can run for office,” Quintero, 44, said.

He’s the guy who, in 2018, chased down an arsonist that set a doormat on fire. First, he pulled out the doormat before it could catch the house on fire, possibly saving lives. Then he went after the firebug and held him until police arrived.

What about fundraising? The mayor is going to have a war chest.

“If you’re creative, you know how to get the exposure you need.”

Quintero says the county wants him to tear down part of his house because it was built without permits in 2001. He bought it in 2020 and says they only went after him after he started filming officials who came after him for his trapeze school, which he says is completely legal.

“Miami-Dade County thinks they’re above the law,” he says, sounding a little neurotic. “I like the mayor a lot. She’s a very nice lady. But she never gave me that meeting. She never addressed what was going on. She just had her people put me off to the very people that were violating my rights.

“Miami-Dade is where the constitution goes to die,” Quintero said.

Oooooh, this is going to be fun. If Quintero stays in it. He says he’ll drop out of the race for $15 million if the mayor fires everyone involved in his violations. “Then, maybe I’ll consider not running.”

Immediately, he changes his mind.

“Nah. I’m running,” Quintero says. “I’m going to expose them all.”

  

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  10. ” “People really believe that Miami is a Banana Republic.”
    ” “Miami-Dade County thinks they’re above the law,”

    He is correct and that attitude in itself is someone worth looking at .

    Miami reminds me of a big corrupt HOA .

    I live in a small gated community in Doral and months ago we removed the corrupt board .

    As of today the new board is great and what a huge difference an honest board has made .

    Miami as far as politicos is for the most part one big bad HOA / Board .

    New candidates are worth looking at .

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  11. .Agree with others that crime has gone up but nothing Cava can do and it looks to have gone up all over Florida .

    I work at night to am hours , just got home an hour ago and you see way more accidents / drunk drivers and police making arrests .

    There has always been the entitled I do what I want when I want mentality here like everywhere else but now in serious numbers .

    It has boomed in last 2 years and it is from citizens and plenty of ”non citizens” which was not the case couple years ago.

    I have mixed feelings on Cava and certainly will look at a new challenger , NOT the same career politician Cosa Nostra so not sticking up for her but do not blame her for what is not her fault .

    ” Homicides ebb in Miami-Dade, but violent crime is up ”
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    Miami-Dade police saw rapes rise 21% during the survey period, while robberies increased 50% and aggravated assaults went up 25%.

    https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2022/09/20/miami-dade-homicides-violent-crime

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    ” Melreese Park is under City of Miami territory so we have Mayor Suarez and his peanut gallery of commissioners to thank for that…”

    Suarez is a compulsive liar who is very much Cosa Nostra but better then most as far as taking credit for what he has not done and blaming others for his own laziness , being inept .

    He is such a spinless con man that during the COVID shut down he would appear on CNN and say how he supported the shut down and an hour later on Fox saying he was trying to get Gimenez to lift the shut down.

    Being against the shut down it ticked me off .

    Suarez is another one here protected by the letter ‘ R ‘ in front of his name as he does not stand for a thing but goes where the wind blows .

    Problem in Miami are not Republicans , problem is they are not Republicans they are self serving con artists

    MOST of these politicos are not considered Republicans outside of Miami , they would be considered opportunistic actors who in reality are not capable of running anything and lack even the most basic management skills .

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  12. @weakmayor Are you saying Mayor Levine-Cava should be doing a better job of babysitting Mayor bitcoin bro (Suarez)? Melreese Park is under City of Miami territory so we have Mayor Suarez and his peanut gallery of commissioners to thank for that….

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  13. Levine-Cava has been a huge disappointment. Not that I was expecting anything more from her because she is of course beholden to very special interest, big or small, that contributed to her campaign. Soft on crime, pro-development and not very loyal to her own staff (the departure of the former Chief Innovation Office after only 10 months on the job is proof of that). I’ll settle for ABC (Anyone But Cava).

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  15. Daniela is weak on crime. She let well connected billionaires demolish the 120 acre Melreese Park so the sleazy billionaires could cover the park in concrete and make a fortune, for themselves. Hello. Killing grass and trees! Daniela also is non-existent in asking Mayors like baby Mayor Francis Suarez to step up and slow down corruption in their cities.

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