City of Miami attorneys working on behalf of Commissioner Joe Carollo and against his recall prevailed in delaying the process some more Friday when the Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge that ruled against them on Tuesday allowed the city to keep the petitions from moving forward to the county’s Supervisor of Elections as they appeal his decision […]
As if they haven’t spent enough of the taxpayer’s money trying to block an electoral process already, the Miami City Attorney’s office filed a notice to appeal Tuesday, an hour or so after a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge ordered City Clerk Todd Hannon to deliver the recall petitions against Commissioner Joe Carollo to the Miami-Dade Elections Department — just […]
The standard operating procedure at the city of Miami to start legal research for an opinion on something is called a “legal service request,” or LSR for short. Whether it’s a department director or a city commissioner, the paperwork is filed. That way, the office knows what department’s budget account to charge for the billable […]
Miami city attorneys have been working to stop or challenge the recall petition against Commissioner Joe Carollo for more than a month — before the first petition was signed — and even created a “cheat sheet” with their research and findings. Actually, two “cheat sheets.” The original — which agreed with the recall attorneys on the timeline for submission of […]
One of the consistent complaints about the Joe Carollo recall effort from the Three Amigos on the Miami City Commission has been that it is being funded and organized by “outside interests.” People who don’t live in District 3. People who don’t live in Miami. People in Coral Gables. But Commissioners Carollo, Manolo Reyes and Alex […]
Don’t think the bromance between Miami City Commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla is over just yet or just because The Dean flew to Paris, of all places, with Mayor Francis Suarez, Carollo’s number one nemesis — or number two after Daddy Commissioner Xavier Suarez (more on that later). It was kind […]
It seems everybody knew who the new papi on the Miami City Commission would be even before the runoff last November. Former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla only got 39% of the vote Nov. 5 — but it was almost 18 points higher than the number two guy. So the writing was on the Allapattah walls. […]
The organizers of the recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo stood in front of City Hall and cameras and the world at an eagerly-promoted press conference Tuesday morning and pretty much showed they don’t know what they’re doing. They’ve got the passion, but they’ve been running around like chickens with no heads. And no […]
South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard wasn’t on the ballot Tuesday, but he won anyway when his hand-picked replacement (read: puppet) Sally Philips took 34% of the vote in a five-way race to become the new mayor. Philips is lucky there is no runoff (don’t listen to the Miami Herald because they got it wrong) because the […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, king of the pay-to-play game, got two free tickets to Super Bowl LIV this Sunday as a gift from Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner Stephen Ross, a longtime ally and campaign donor who (1) got a sweet deal in 2014 where the county pays him up to $5 million […]