Carlos Gimenez used taxpayer paid office staff for Congressional bid

Carlos Gimenez used taxpayer paid office staff for Congressional bid

Text messages don’t lie: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has been caught using several members of his publicly paid senior staff to basically work on his suddenly-halted and possibly aborted congressional campaign. And the executive director of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust, Jose Arrojo, said they would investigate. An ethics complaint filed Friday […]

Carlos Gimenez new chief of staff gets 83% raise

Carlos Gimenez new chief of staff gets 83% raise

Alex Ferro, the new chief of staff to Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Good to Go” Gimenez, got an 88 percent increase in his salary when he took over last week for former Chief of Staff Lisa Martinez. Son of Ambassador Simon Ferro, a lobbyist and land use attorney, and cousin to former State Rep. Marcelo Llorente, […]

New Gimenez COS Alex Ferro started with campaign

New Gimenez COS Alex Ferro started with campaign

UPDATED: As predicted by Ladra, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced this afternoon that Alex Ferro, the mayor’s director of external affairs, will take over as his chief of staff when Lisa Martinez leaves the first week of August. Ferro has been with Gimenez since he joined the 2011 recall campaign in the second round after his cousin, […]