The Miami city commission met virtually Wednesday via a Zoom video conferencing platform that allowed the public to participate in a one-way sort of manner — through emails, video recordings and voice recordings played during the meeting — and where commissioners voted unanimously to create a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. COVID19 curfew starting Friday. Now […]
Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s lawyer has assured reporters that his client has not gone through the recall petitions filed against him at the city clerk’s office to find out who signed and who gathered them. “The petitions were in the sole control and custody of the clerk,” Ben Kuehne told a Miami Herald reporter last […]
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 […]
So, the ordinance to limit recalls in the city of Miami passed 4-1 after Commissioner Keon Hardemon joined the Three Amigos after first seeming against the change — it even seemed like he offered the Ladra amendment, to make it after a failed recall election. But Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla wove his jabber magic […]
After a pretty solid legal victory Tuesday — in which a Circuit Court judge ordered City Clerk Todd Hannon to deliver 1,914 petitions turned into the city last week to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections no later than Wednesday — the group trying to recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is headed back to court on […]
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 […]
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 […]
UPDATED: The recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo may be headed to court after the city held the petitions hostage for a day — purportedly to review them — and then announced in the afternoon that they were submitted too late. So why review them? Both City Clerk Todd Hannon and City Attorney Victoria Mendez […]
Why stop at Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo? A group of longtime active citizens wants to oust all three of the Miami city commissioners that form the new majority and that, they say, have thrown the city into chaos and controversy. Ladra affectionately calls them the Three Amigos, and this group of activists would have them all […]
Updated: The Take Back Our City group that wants to recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo submitted more than 1,900 signed petitions to the city clerk just before midnight Saturday after they were informed by the city on Friday that Saturday was the deadline. “We emailed them a drop box link then told them we would take […]