Armando Guttierez is running the Coral Gables campaign of Gonzolo Sanabria, whose bad influence on the urban landscape of Miami Dade we have documented. Guttierez has a long history of waging extreme, negative campaigns and he is following that script according to Sanabria's direction against Maria Anderson, the incumbent. On the Sanabria mailer in Coral Gables, Guttierez wrote in Sanabria's name, "Our city is going through crucial times and facing many challenges. As your commissioner I am proudly determined to work hard to achieve the exemplary city we all yearn for." Sanabria is NOT commissioner!
Guttierez' wife, Maritiza serves with Sanabria on the board of the key agency charged with transportation in the county: the MDX. Highways are to development like sugar to a cafecito. Anyone who thinks that traffic and transportation in Miami Dade County are up to par and serve the public well, raise your hand and vote for Sanabria and Guttierez. Guttierez was a lobbyist for the Brown CDMP Amendment to move the Urban Development Boundary in the 2005 cycle, an application that Sanabria supported; another blow to residents of Kendall Drive and the massive transit nightmare that bad development decisions like Sanabria's helped to create. (Hit read more).
Maritza’s business works on campaign after campaign, her firm is called Creative Ideas Advertising. She also is President of Latino Public Radio. Maritiza estimated she was worth about $5,000,000 in 2007 and Gonzalo said he was worth over $17,000,000 in 2007 according to their most recent MDX Financial Disclosure Forms supplied by the State to an EOM reader. It would be an awful consequence of public anger if all it did was give an opening to the dark energy that made such a mess of our quality of life.
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What a low-life duo. They should be sent packing not elected to office.
Both of these candidates are terrible. It's like asking me if I want to cut off my right arm, or my left arm.
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If you live in Coral Gables, then cut off your left so you will be right. Then we can recognize you when we meet moderate.
I also thought that calling himself a Commissioner was presumptuous in the leaflet I was sent.
I have no problem deciding who to vote for: The known is far better than this unknown.
We do know him from his board appointments in both the county and in Coral Gables (he not “unknown”) and that record is disappointing.
It makes me want to barf.
Can you imagine that we live in a society where people lie on the Campaign papers they mail out and don't give a damn about being caught lying? In fact, these nitwits are rewarded in Dade County.
It starts at the VERY top and pours down right through the county ranks into the cities and then into our community organizations. That is reprehensible. Disgusting.
Coral Gables! Pay attention to the lies. Your choice may be the lesser of 2 evils... always do your homework.
MIAMI-(Business Wire)-January 27, 2009 - The Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) Board of Directors approved the agency’s Five-Year Work Program (2010-2014), which includes a total of 55 projects and a combined estimated cost of $620.7 million. The work program provides funding for capacity improvements, safety enhancements and system-wide implementation of Open Road Tolling (ORT).
The detailed list, first approved by MDX’s Operations Committee, is focused on project advancements. Operations Committee Chair, Gonzalo Sanabria said, “This forward thinking is precisely what our community needs during this financial challenge. Now is the time to keep building for the future.” With unemployment rates on the rise, Sanabria added, “MDX strives to have a positive impact on the local economy, but more importantly create jobs. We have a responsibility to our residents.”
The Five-Year Work Program evolves as projects are completed, needs are identified, financial capabilities developed and priorities reevaluated. One of the many projects included is a study of an extension from SR 924/Gratigny Parkway east to I-95. This plan would connect drivers from Broward and Northwest Miami-Dade to other vital roadways while avoiding surface streets.
“An extensive effort is made to identify projects that provide the most benefit to our community,” said MDX Chair Maritza Gutierrez. “It is crucial we use toll revenue responsibly and effectively. Our goal is to listen to our citizens’ needs, address the issues and keep our area moving. This work program is a vital piece to that puzzle.”
They want to bring the expressway system to Krome and the Krome Gold Projects.
That would make sense:
Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust -Campaign Skills Seminar - The Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust will hold a two-hour Campaign Skills Seminar 6:30PM-8:30PM on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. This seminar will provide essential information to declared candidates, individuals considering running for office, or to anyone who needs to understand the legal and ethical obligations of seeking elective office. The event is free and open to the public. Topics covered by featured speakers will include: financing campaigns, reporting and disclosure requirements, collecting and expending campaign funds and ethical campaigning. Invited speakers include: Robert Meyers, Executive Director, Ethics Commission; Howard Lenard, General Counsel, Miami-Dade County League of Cities; Joe Centorino, Chief Public Corruption Unit, State Attorney’s Office; and the Miami-Dade County Department of Elections. What Campaign Skills Seminar -Presented by the Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust -When: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 -6:30PM-8:30PM >>> Where: City of North Miami - City Hall Council Chambers (Second Floor) 776 N.E. 125th Street, North Miami, FL 33161 RSVP: 305-579-2594, or e-mail robthom@miamidade.gov >>>It is the policy of Miami-Dade County to comply with all of the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The facility is accessible. For sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices, or materials in accessible format, please call 305-579-2594 at least five days in advance. The Ethics Commission was created in 1996 as an independent agency with advisory and quasi-judicial powers. It is composed of five members, serving staggered terms of four years each. Through a program of education and outreach, the Commission seeks to empower the community and bolster public trust.
http://www.anderson2009.com
Watch the newspaper (Miami Herald) for stories about the campaign and the possible lawsuit against the Coral Gables Gazette, Mr. George Volsky, Mr. Gonzalo Sanabria and Mr. Armando Gutierrez for the publication and distribution of inaccurate stories about the opponent, her husband and his former business associate. The candidate forum will be at Hurricane 100 at the UM Campus on Tuesday, March 31 at 7 p.m.
Wow.. any way you can get a copy of this leaflet and blast it on here? I can't believe they went that way. Extremely disappointing and misleading. Isn't there a law that states that you can not perform any false advertising to mislead the general pubblic.. during an election period?? Or.. am I forgetting that we are living in Miami? That is/was tacky politics. Almost like a novela.
Well Lets just say Gutierrez put up an amazing fight against Anderson. Gutierrez is still Miami Dade County's best political consultant.
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