Miami Herald, on the permanent incumbency... by gimleteye

I'm still hoping that Mike Pizzi, city councilman for Miami Lakes, will run against Natacha Seijas-- if only to reveal for Hialeah voters the real motives and machinery behind the unreformable majority of the county commission.

As G.O.D. notes below (and as eyeonmiami has blogged about repeatedly), Miami-Dade county government is stuck in hardened cement. Nothing can change. A permanent incumbent majority will not reform itself, will not abide by the recommendations of the Charter Review Commission, and is interested only in its own power. (The comments by sitting commissioners, that their individual discretionary funds -- each more than $300,000-- do not serve political purposes was nothing short of laughable.)

I hope that the Herald is as tough in its editorial endorsement/recommendations for political office, in the Fall, as it is on the front page today.

The emerging theme on this blog, and from our readers, is that the only possible reform is doing away with the county commission altogether. How could that be accomplished? How would basic services be provided? You tell me.