Don't count out Obdulio Piedra for Katy Sorsenson's District 8 seat. He is campaigning hard as you can see from this photo taken at the April, Latin Builders Association (LBA) luncheon. You will remember he was the ONLY candidate not to show up for the Urban Environment League debate in May. He was also spotted at the LBA May luncheon. Hmmm. His banking job aside, he was announced over the P.A. as a candidate so he is attending as a candidate for District 8. Was he fund-raising? Did the bank pay for him to attend the luncheons or did his campaign? Maybe he paid for the luncheons himself. I will have to check his campaign report.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Obdulio Piedra, if Nothing Else, is Dutiful. By Geniusofdespair
Don't count out Obdulio Piedra for Katy Sorsenson's District 8 seat. He is campaigning hard as you can see from this photo taken at the April, Latin Builders Association (LBA) luncheon. You will remember he was the ONLY candidate not to show up for the Urban Environment League debate in May. He was also spotted at the LBA May luncheon. Hmmm. His banking job aside, he was announced over the P.A. as a candidate so he is attending as a candidate for District 8. Was he fund-raising? Did the bank pay for him to attend the luncheons or did his campaign? Maybe he paid for the luncheons himself. I will have to check his campaign report.
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I'd like to see the LBA go out and clean up the mess they made of Miami-Dade the way BP is cleaning up its oil spill in the Gulf.
Come on, the lba creates jobs.
True, but at what expense to our quality of life. A little more quality and less quantity would go a long way.
Creating jobs:
There is something wrong with invoking JOBS everytime we have something horrible to push down people's throats. Jobs are not an end all in society.
It is so typical of the LBA to try to muscle in on the seat that Katy has represented so well. They should have reached out to her and thanked her for her years of service, that would have been the civil and respectful thing to do. So what if she was against them; one against twelve. Not showing her respect is really, really wrong. And the point is, on the issues of overdevelopment in South Florida Katy was correct. If many of the LBA members had listened to her then, they would have saved a lot of money.
Too often, LBA and proponents of UDB expansion, i.e. Jeff Bercow and Crew, site economic growth as a reason for their proposals. They are actually part of the reason that we have deflationary trends in our real estate. By increasing supply where there was no demand, they have helped REMOVE value from the tax rolls and create loss of equity with their sprawl developments. For this reason, their actions show that they are AGAINST economic prosperity.
If they were truly in favor of a robust real estate market and tax rolls, they would want to make real estate scarcer, i.e. not increase the supply.
Too often, they make us environmentalists seem like we are obstacles to economic prosperity. I think they are the obstacle.
Good comments where are you people from?
I'd be more inclined to accept a previous poster's position on jobs, if the jobs were sustainable. But they're not. It's a recipe for a false economy.
We're from deep in the hole of South Florida.
I thought the only way a construction driven economy would work is by having a serious commitment to infill and renewal of existing properties. I guess it is less expensive to build up on farm land than remove and then build up? At least, that is the lazy developers way, renovation is more expensive and it does require some creativity which we sorely lack in Miami Dade County.
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