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 […]
The third time was the charm. Miami-Dade Commissioners gave yet another sweetheart deal to yet another sports team Tuesday– the second in a month — as they voted 7-4 to support a plan concocted by Mayor Carlos Gimenez in which the county will pay the billionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins millions of tourist tax dollars […]
Today, Miami-Dade Commissioners will again consider giving money away to the Miami Dolphins’ billionaire owner Stephen Ross for events that he would already have because they already make him tons of money. I swear I am not making this up. Instead of paying him to bring a Super Bowl, our esteemed electeds should be talking […]
So now that the proposed Miami Dolphins stadium renovation scam, er, deal would take taxes away from his little, scrappy city, Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert — who supported the team’s last plan for using tourist tax dollars — says Sun Life Stadium is not all that. Gilbert told the Miami Herald Wednesday that he wants Miami […]
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross seems to have given up on the grab for public funds for the renovation of his stadium. Now he just wants to stop paying almost $4 million in annual property taxes. Well, of course he does. Why wouldn’t he? If that’s good enough for the Miami Heat owners and the […]
Plans for a Major League Soccer team and stadium are rolling along, like a black and white ball on an open field, so smoothly and quickly that the principal cheerleaders — Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and his new BFF, soccer star David Beckham, and Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber — will be stumping for […]
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has not given up on getting public financing for some of his planned $350-million in upgrades to his privately-owned SunLife Stadium, even though efforts to do just that this year were thwarted in the Florida legislature. “Have I given up? The answer is no,” he said earlier this month. “The […]
You’d think they wouldn’t be so chummy. But apparently Gov. Rick Scott is warming up to Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. And vice versa. Politico reported Friday that Ross will have a fundraiser tonight for Scott at his home in the Hamptons. In New York. Not Florida, where the guv’s increasingly tough re-election, according to […]
Looks like Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is making good on his threat to punish the Tallahassee bunch who killed his $350-million dream. Well, not the Democrat one. The second wave of mail attacks on state legislators that fought the plan to finance the roof and improvements to Ross’s privately owned Dolphins stadium with public tax […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez was re-elected last year in a primary with 54 percent and a 24 point lead over number two, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Chairman Joe Martinez. He doesn’t reasonably have to campaign again for another year at least, according to local standards. Or so one might think (more on that later). But his […]