El Nuevo Herald Columnist, Daniel Shoer Roth, on Getting Rid of Term Limits in Hialeah and the County Commission Races. By Geniusofdespair

Shoer Roth endorsement (in google translation language): NO to perpetuate indefinitely leaders, and SI to cease permanently leaders.

Here is a BAD google translation of Sunday's very important column by Daniel Roth Shoer in the El Nuevo Herald:
Yes to dictatorships? Published on Sunday, August 17, 2008
DANIEL SHOER ROTH

The Hialeah voters received by mail last week a leaflet with the American flag waving in the background and an eagle in the foreground, urging them well, in capital letters: `` Let us make government more open and more honest!''.

If residents vote''yes''for the amendment to the Charter of Hialeah in the votes of August 26, taxes will remain low and citizens may review the budget, says propaganda.

However, nowhere mentions that the''yes''also implies that the mayor and council members will take office for life, despite the fact that in 1998 the citizens voted for the establishment of a maximum of two consecutive periods of four years for the mayor and three for council members. In schools policy on this matter I call him `` Handling''.

Councillors Hialeah could not have better source of inspiration: the Commission Miami-Dade.

Since 1994, no county commissioner has been defeated at the polls. Each district operates as a kind of fiefdom. And with the wealth of thousands of dollars in donations collected and the powerful political machine they have, even the Super Friends can beat them.

But there is someone who can save it, and is not exactly the Chapulín Colorado. It's you.

The Miami us as individuals whose spouses are given slaps but never reported to the police. When finally manage to secede, fall in love with other people who also abuse them. This is what they know.

Of course there are commissioners committed to the welfare of their constituents that they deserve re-election. But it is valid question, why they want to hold office for so many years with a salary negligible compared to the massive amounts wasted to get back to winning?

The answer have the records of Miami-Dade County - like those of the City of Miami - that attest to the plethora of contracts that are not brought to public auction. Also in the archives of the Herald, which hold material for a bestseller - or more - on corruption in South Florida.

There is a saying that suggests:''If something is not broken, why would you compose?''. So if anything it is broken, do not have to compose?

Of the six seats on the County Commission that will compete in the current contest, the editorial board of the Miami Herald, conscientiously studying each candidate and their platform, has suggested keeping only two members.

In the cases of Bruno Barreiro, Joe Martinez, Natacha Seijas and Audrey Edmonson, the board felt it is better to replace them by new blood.

The commissioners have been sealed to the recommendations of a respected Review Panel for Charter Miami-Dade County that seeks to restructure the Commission.

The recommendations propose on the ballot but, paradoxically, the commissioners must first give permission. Hello!

What dichotomy! In Miami-Dade County, voters have no right to put limits on its commissioners, but in Hialeah voters they can remove the limits to their councillors.

The language with which these amendments are written sometimes is so misleading, that is easy to catch people. This week, a circuit judge ruled that Leon County be removed from the ballot on November 4 an amendment to the tax to property in Florida because it provided `` not just a knowledge of the content and scope of the proposal ''.

That's why it's paramount homework before going to the polls and not rely facial or better known by the name sounded more.

OK, today I will share my task: NO to perpetuate indefinitely leaders, and SI leaders to cease permanently.