Just testing out nicknames... RTL Lynda, Lynda Ring my Bell, Lynda Bell-Ringer. Not there yet. Anyway...she is getting sworn in. Ick.
Here is one donor from her campaign report I never like to see -- Miguel De Grandy:
Miguel De Grandy
7540 SW 75 St
Miami, Fl 33143
Julie De Grandy-Cancio
10060 NW9 St Cir
Miami, Fl 33172
Bertha Galvez
10060 NW9 St Cir
Miami, Fl 33172
(Note same address as Julie De Grandy)
Miguel De Grandy PA
800 Douglas Rd
Coral Gables, Fl 33134
Lisa De Grandy
7540 SW 75 St
Miami, Fl 33143
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I've never noticed the "ick" label before. It is certainly fitting here. In fact, it's a double ICK!
Who's going to be the new Chairman? Diaz, Jordan? Can't wait for that one this morning either.
This is going to be a very crappy year for the County residents at the Commission level.
You people in South Dade - I send my condolenses to the Ag community who actually farm - not to the Farm Bureau who actually sells insurance.
She campaigns door to door on the basis of "standing up" to the developers and corrupt insiders but she takes their money without hesitation. Lets see if she does what she did in Homestead to Wayne Rosen who dumped a ton of money in her first mayors race. Back then she smiled, took his money and then went out of her way to trash him and try to screw him at every turn. The real story of her reports will be tracing the true amount of money back to the rock mining industry. It is going to be a loooong four years. The Queen of contradictions and perks has arrived "movin on up"
I love her plans to commercialize the Homestead General Aviation airport. She'll get support from the Farm Bureau and we'll get plenty of pollution and noise in the neighborhood.
I can only think of sentances which use curse words to describe the rest of her or "it" as the best description.
One year can't come fast enough for a recall. We can only hope to minimize the damage and get plenty of good VNS style sound bites from it.
The Ick label has 47 entries.
VNB = Vile Nasty Bell
Of course, we will have a honeymoon of a few weeks. ICK.
Although, I understand she made a sweep through county hall already trying to intimidate those county employees that supported Eugene. Not nice, Missy Bell.
Let's call her ONB... One Nasty B***h
I like ONB, but how about "the Vulgar One" VLB. The Vile One belongs to VNS! We but, they're really both the same, just one is more of a liar than the other.
Republicans have controlled the Florida legislature for years and our economy is in shambles which would suggest that they don't know jack about protecting our state's economy (collectively as a group, that is).
Tourism is our state's largest economic engine in Florida. Tourists come to enjoy the bodies of water and the parks, not the suburbs. Pollution is killing those and, perhaps, a large sector of the tourism business along with it.
Hmmmm, so how exactly would clean water standards ruin our economy? Say again Tallahassee.
We all have to commit ourselves to making sure ONB is a one termer or less. Follow Mark Bell's Action Plumbing truck and see where the work is being generated.
I still want to know where ONB or VLB (still undecided) came up with the $16K she loaned her campaign.
Dunno. She drives a late-model Caddy too. I know ALL the plumbers' wives (with no discernable source of income of their own) who absolutely aren't on the take can afford one of those.
It's going to be a long 4 years.
This is a bad day for South Dade
Breaking my heart
The result of this election is the downside of democracy... the tyranny of the gullible. Lynda Bell is a quick study in learning the political currents and taking advantage and I would bet she has her eye on being the local version of Palin. Kay Sorensen spent the first years of her terms ignoring the ag interests of South Dade but was not vindictive. My fear is that the Bell way will cause many a good idea to fail if the wrong person suggests something. Truly sad for South Dade and for Flinn who truly cares and is a sincere public servant. The dynamic between Bell and Moss as he finsihes his time on the BCC will be something to watch. We will find her candidate for District 9 soon enough.
I bet Katy Edwards will run for Dist. 9 Moss doesn't run again. I don't think Bell would be stupid enough to go against Moss. However, the redistricting will be interesting.
I think this also belongs with the Barf-O-Meter tag. I watched her getting sworn in and I nearly threw up.
VNS wouldn't stand up when Moss announced Katy. Martinez was hesitant too!
Most of that Commission are so drunk with power, they should be neutered!
The people lucky enough to live in the incorporated area of Dist. 8 - consider yourself lucky. For those of us in Kendall/Redland - well, we're probably screwed.
Let the Rock Mining continue along Krome and everywhere else!
I'm devastated. Now, District 8 has a completely inappropriate commissioner with no business being in office, just like so many other districts!
yes...will add to barf-o-meter
De Grandy can't believe Rolle lost. Out with old, in with the new.
Suck on this piece of info: Katie Edwards got more votes than Lynda Bell in the precincts they shared in common and over one thousand more than Gene Flinn.
Well, as far as Flinn, Edwards' district didn't include his strongest areas (Pinecrest and Palmetto Bay). He would always win those areas. It's like a funeral in Palmetto Bay with Flinn leaving and those two vying for the mayor seat. However, it did include what should have been Bell's strongest, Homestead and the Redland.
Anon wrote:
I still want to know where ONB or VLB (still undecided) came up with the $16K she loaned her campaign.
It was money she took from the city when she was mayor of Homestead. Lots of money is missing, and we don't know where it went. Her old expense account was around 17K a year, and every year she'd drain that dry.
Bateman does a better job as Homestead Mayor and only spends 4K a year doing it.
I will tell you who will will running for dist 9, Wendy Lobos. After she loses to Judy Waldman she will put her name on a house in that district and "call" it her home and set up shop to do her masters bidding. If you were to bend Lynda over, Wendy's head would pop out!
Katie Edwards is a self serving B*itch and I'm glad she lost. She should not take the loss so bad, thats what happens when you have the lapban procedure. You Lose!
Katie Edwards was the Dem party's greatest hope and yet underperformed against Frank Artilles, a 3 time loser, who like Bell, only had the fact that he was a Republican going for him. Edwards had resources from the dem party not shared with other dem candidates like Solomon, Lesperance and Flinn, leaving them out in the cold against the Republican party machine.
Flinn took in so many more votes than Edwards. Edwards and Bell had the entire Dade Farm group pulling for them in South Dade, even if they claimed to endorse Flinn. Even more strange was that many Edwards people were also actively campaigning for the Republicans; Bell and Bileca in the Palmetto Bay area as well as co-working at the Coral Reef early voting site for Palmetto Bay Mayor Candidate Zisman.
I am sure that Lisa Lesperance was hurt by the cross over support by team Edwards. Where does Edwards go from here? Perhpas she formally re-registers as a Republican or simply returns full time to her day job at the DCFB.
Maldendo or Lobos will run for Moss' seat. Katy Edwards is too blond.
And of course, there is JL Demps _ Moss' little buddy, who wants to be mayor of Goulds, but may have to go look for things elsewhere.
Katy Edwards: 12,874 votes, losing on election day, at early voting and big on absentee ballots.
Minority leader Ron Saunders sure can pick candidates and lead them to victory.
It is time to now think of a Post-Moss Commission District 9. What would the ideal candidate look like? What would the new agenda look like? The time is now to start imagining a future without Moss. We need new blood. Someone who has not run for office before. A clean slate.
When will the democrats get real local party leaders? All the money went north to the Sink campaign, which lost despite all the money that should have gone to local leaders being sunk into Sink's campaign. We failed to develop any local leaders. Lesperance, Soloman, Herrera all were left to fend for themselves and the money was unwisely invested in only Alex Sink and Katie Edwards. Lucky for Rep Bullard and Sen Margolis that they occupy super safe dem seats.
I would like to see Annette Taddeo jump into party leadership. Taddeo is energetic, a proven fundraiser, well-organized and can regain lost clout with local Hispanics. I would suggest Pinecrest Mayor Lerner to run the party, but she has her hands full bringing Pinecrest around and she is doing an outstanding job there. We will have to wait and see what happens in Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay, both cities having just lost strong leadership
This is the unintended consequence of term limits – the party machines and lobbyists are empowered. We will never see another great dem like John Cosgrove. The republican party is working hard down to the lower offices, wisely planting the seeds locally as a springboard to the future while the dems rob resources from the future political talent in a futile attempt to place Alex Sink before a veto proof legislature. Oh, the humanity, the irony, the lack of any respectable future for the dems. The fat lady is singing, singing loudly.
Oh Katie Edwards, can you hire any of us to work with you at the DCFB?
Who is Wendy Lobos? PUH-lease. NEXT! And NO to Katie Edwards for Dist. 9.
Edwards' district didn't include Palmetto Bay, so it wouldn't have made a difference who she campaigned for in those races. Campaigning for Zisman could only have hurt Edwards. Zisman is a known laughing-stock who only got 400 votes. 400 votes means that probably, even people he considered his friends didn't vote for him. It was the best part of election day those of us who supported Flinn!
And yes, her supporters were not only campaigning for Bileca, but actively making rude comments about Lesperance.
Edwards is in law school. Maybe she should just concentrate on that. She obviously has shark instincts.
I call Miguel de Grandy Natacha Seijas' putative son, so these contributions were approved by the Wicked Witch of the Southwest -- better known as "nuestra gorda" by the US Century Bank posse!
Edwards' district may not have included Palmetto Bay, but it did not stop her supporters from interjecting themselves into those local races at early voting. Ron Saunders seriously hurt the party and he should step aside from any claim to party leadership in the legislature. He recruited candidates who worked extremely hard and yet abandoned them for Edwards who violated the 11th commandment by campaigning against other members of her own party. Can the Republicans trust Edwards? No more than the British could trust Benedict Arnold. Edwards bled money from the party loyalists then repaid it by actively stabbing them in their political hearts. Thanks to the inability to focus locally, Ron Saunders is now minority leader of the irrelevant 39 state representatives who have absolutely no power to influence legislation. Ever read Lord of the Flies? I do not see how any Dem would run for office based upon promises of party support. We need new leadership within the party before we can think of fielding any candidate other than those who can self-fund a campaign.
Good night Dems.
Of course our local Democrats have leaders. Who do you think got the Tea Party candidates to run in the Edwards race?
And even with that attempt to take away Pub votes, she still didn't do very well.
A lot of other candidates, Solomon, Lesperance, etc, got the same, or better, percentages without all the support the snake got.
How do you afford lapband surgery on a law school budget? Perhaps we should check Marco Rubio's American Express statement.
Please permit me to place the Lynda Bell problem into perspective.
She has no public mandate since she won by only 355 votes out of more than 40,000.
A legal challenge is being pursued. Even if it is unsuccessful, her campaign will be scrutinized and subject to possible criticism which will be used against her in the next election.
At this time, political heavy hitters are discussing and developing plans for a recall election in six months. Republican registered voters cast their ballot for her out of reflex action. The Republican Tsunami that floated her and other debris into office will not be in effect at the time of the recall or other election.
Her term is only two years as a result of reapportionment in 2012.
Simply stated: watch and wait, keep the faith, and keep your powder dry. There will be a second chance. You can take that to the bank.
"....take that to the bank" From you mouth to G-d's ears!
To the Anon perspective. Wrong on all three counts.
1 )Bell won by 362 votes, not 355.
2) Recalls can be done 1 rear before or 1 year after a commissioner is elected, not 6 months later.
3) Lynda’s election is in 2014, not 2012, regardless of reapportionment.
Simply stated…. your wrong. As the saying goes. “you have the right to your opinion, but not to create your own facts”
Do you have authority on #3 because I've heard that too? The Miami-Dade website has not updated yet, to list the term for the districts that just got elected. I'm not the same anon, just curious.
And, oooh, burn on the 362 vs. 355 votes. You'd think someone that picky could spell, "you're." But then, you are a Bell voter.
Comm. Jean Monestime will be a ray of light on the commission. Lynda Bell must be held to her promises on the UDB. Let's see if she will step up to the challenges of the office.
We will miss you Comm. Katy Sorenson. UM is lucky to have you now.
The fog over Homestead this morning will not lift until the end of the Bell reign of terror.
Why in blazes is everyone writing about Katy Edwards...?
Wow! Anon. Nice one. You can’t refute the facts, but you found a typo. Kudos you should be proud.
I watched Bell during the Jackson presentation yesterday. All I kept thinking about was "Deliverance" - the movie! Can someone get her to a good hair dresser and some speech therapy.
I also watched her comments, in which she sounded incredibly confused. The tape is online, see for yourself!
Boy, Dist. 8 is in serious doo doo.
362, 355, whatever. The problem is that in VLB's mind it was a 'big' win. And with the backing of people like Grandy and VNS, her perspective is totally out of whack.
Everyone's writing about Katy Edwards because the swearing in of the new class of Reps was yesterday. Watching all those people who shouldn't be there gets a lot of us really angry. Besides this excuse of a national 'redwave' or 'political tsunami' we have to look at ourselve and figure out how to deal in the future. We blame the 'leaders' like Saunders for not supporting and backing worthy candidates. Look through the campaign reports and see how the money was distributed to candidates. Several candidates were excluded from Dem financing because 'someone' didn't think they could win. Well, guess what? Most of those candidates did just as well as those who were funded and probably could have overcome this 'red tide' if they had gotten more support from within. Imagine the possibilities for South Florida if instead of watching Nunez, Diaz, Bileca, and Flores get sworn in, we had seen Ruiz, Solomon, Lesperance and Herrera. Those 4 got screwed not only by their own party generally, but also by the person who got the money, Edwards.
That's why we're all talking about her.
What is the phrase, "a lack of intellectual curiosity"
We should get a special post to complain about Katie Edwards. The Anon above was quite correct about why we are griping about her. Parties run the system then they make stupid decisions that we all are held to pay for. Why Edwards and no one else other than Sink? Why did all that money seem to make no difference, especially when she had a much weaker opponent in Artilles who was no Diaz (115). Many people in the Republican party did not like Artilles. I am still scratching my head trying to figure out how he did not attract a strong primary opponent. Whatever. Regardless, it is time for party leadership to step aside and for others to realize that the success takes years and starts at the local level.
How dare Ron Saunders and the state party dems use Ruiz, Solomon, Lesperance and Herrera as placeholders. Where were the promised managers? Correct me if I am wrong, but each candidate is asked to raise soft money for the party, yet I do not recall a single party soft money ad for Ruiz, Solomon, Lesperance or Herrera. Pathetic. Fine people who worked hard and did not receive their promised support.
It's amazing that folks are talking about the State House races and how the Dems got screwed.
How about Dwight Bullard, and his poor track record? He shouldn't have won, and he should be barred from running for the Senate. He has no platform, no voice in the House, no new ideas, and no leadership qualities. Like the rest of his family, he's just in Tallahassee to hold a seat. shame
The Dems really need to do better at developing talent, and recruiting young leaders who can win and make a difference.
Katie Edwards got the money, and not Ruiz, Lesperance, and Solomon because they were not strong enough candidates to play in strongly Republican districts.
Edwards was endorsed by every major organization: Florida Chamber, AIF. The only Dem in Miami-Dade to get those endorsements.
She lost because of the Republican momentum.
There are very few Republicans who wanted Artiles to win. He is no good. He is trouble, but he also probably will not last past 2012.
There was a well-funded opponent in the primary, but that gentleman dropped out due to a too-good to pass up job offer.
"Wow! Anon. Nice one. You can’t refute the facts, but you found a typo. Kudos you should be proud."
Still haven't heard any authority for the 2014 date (vs. 2012 due to reapportionment). Funny how people post smug stuff like that then disappear when questioned. As far as the typo, if one is going to correct others' minor miscalculations (355 vs. 362), yeah, one should be careful not to have any of one's own. He who lives in glass typos and all that.
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