How will the County Commission vote tomorrow on the Marlins Stadium deal? Well, I expect there will be a lot of posturing and since they will all get dolled up for the media frenzy, I am sure they will take their time at the mike...plenty of time. Most will pretend to be really concerned at some nit-pick detail...but then they will fold and vote for it. My guess is that Sorenson and Gimenez will vote no. Since Martinez wants to be the next mayor, he might join them. Heyman, for it, could be wrong on her. Souto, he also is an unknown, but expect a very long incoherent speech. The rest of them will all vote for it. That is my prediction, it will pass. I have been wrong plenty of times so don't bet on anything I say! What's your bet?
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Forget Souto. The Marlins are donating $100.000 per year for seven years to the parks foundation (Souto's charity) and now he is voting for the stadium.
what parks foundation?
I don't know why they don't call in their votes... it would save us much time and and aggravation. We would not have to watch or listen. We could just watch the votes be counted without the stupid posturing. If they are going to screw us without kissing us, they may as well be respectful of our time.
Respect our time..what a concept, I like it.
Speaking of Souto's speeches who could forget the Franscisco Alvarado article where he actually repeated what he said:
Rolle's comments spurred colleague Javier Souto's rambling soliloquy on Celia Cruz; art's ability to soothe the human soul; and the slow speed of democracy. Here is a verbatim transcript of Souto's speech: "Commissioner Rolle this is for you. I think you are right. I was at the inauguration. We missed Celia Cruz. You know if she was there, you know, she was black and Cuban and sang in English and Spanish. Celia, God bless you... Let me tell you what happened to me the other day. [Park and Recreation Department executive assistant Frank] Faragalli and I went to Medellin, Colombia. Medellin! You hear about Medellin and you hear about bums and things. On a park mission we went there[stet]. Well let me tell you, that is the place of Botero. You know the guy Botero? People in Medellin told me when you pump art into the people, violence diminishes. It behooves us to pump a lot of art, a lot of performing arts center stuff, a lot of museums -- Is [Cultural Affairs Department director] Michael Spring here? -- a lot of all that stuff [stet] because it will diminish violence. Do we have violence here? Of course we have violence. We have a lot of violence in this town. You know that. We need to reduce that...The process is very slow. So be it. It is the democratic process. If not, let's go into communism, into Hitler, into something else. Those are very quick. Stalin was very quick. Hitler was very quick. Chavez in Venezuela was very quick. Castro in Cuba was very quick. They just do things quickly. That's it, you know. There is no democracy there."
Francisco Alvarado
He always manages to slip Castro and Communism into every speech -- no matter the subject, in the one above we even get Hitler and Stalin. A banner speech, thanks for writing it down Frank! I never tire of reading this.
As a matter of fact, you should all tune in the county commission on your TV tomorrow (it is in the high numbers - 70's maybe). It is worth it just to hear some of the crap they will dish out... especially you shouldn't miss Souto...
Watch the commission's meeting on TV or on the web? No way. I'm not a masochist! Anyway, we all know the outcome -the Marlins will get their stadium and anything else they ask for.
I heard the same thing about Souto. He was bought off by the Administration and the Marlins with a pledge for $100,000 K for seven years to parks, and be sure, that money will find its way to Souto's "pet" project, the cattle show at Tropical Park.
Interesting, check out the Strickland Ranchs website, they do business with Cuba and they sponsored the cattle show this weekend at Tropical park. I thought this wasn't allowed?
Akvarado ripped that off from Defede, who once dedicated an entire olumn (in New Times days) to a Souto Ramble..4 columns of incoherence. Defede put quotes at the beginning and end of the piece, and Javier did the rest."
Stadium passes in a walk...
we get it wrong again.
In 1997 and 2003 after winning the world series the Marlins unloaded their best players both times. Was this always part of their strategy to get a new stadium via public funding? Huizenga and Loria both had sports ownership stakes and both did the same thing with the Marlins or maybe it's just a coincidence.
Loria is looking pretty pasty. Time to exercise the "death clause"?
Loria looks like he died two months ago.
I think the $250 million gift Carlos Alvarez and Manny Diaz just gave Loria will wake him up.
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