Vanessa Brito - Miami Voice - said she would not rule out an at large County Commission seat. Vanessa forget about it. We won't get that change in the charter. When I left - see post below - Jordan was backpeddaling on term limits saying elections are term limits. What we need Vanessa is another targeted recall. They haven't got the message.
On another front -- Sounds like Raul is running for Natacha's seat. He said he does not like sitting on the sideline and he lives in the district. He was standing with Terry Murphy - Natacha's former chief of staff -- very bad sign (see photo above). Something is up. When I started my video Terry ran away. Maybe Raul is also considering the mayor slot.
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thanks for the chuckle G.O.D. -- makes me laugh to think you're so friggin scary to these EVIL people...keep up the videography!
Most of the Commissioners have proven today that they need to be taken out of office beginning with the idiot who can't compose a sentence if his life depended on it, Barriero.
This is crazy...this BCC can't seem to help themselves. I am aghast watching this meeting. The voters want to vote now on Charter Reform. NO straw ballots.
Let's vote on May 24 on the whole kit-n-kaboodle!
Martinez made a few good points but I completely disagree when he said the charter reform issues have to be heard in meetings throughout the county.
Victor Diaz already has had these hearings and got plenty of public input. Why are they dismissing data and input already on file?
Agree with the Barreiro comment and normally Giminez makes sense but Dennis Moss and Lynda Bell were right about his attempt to limit the number of departments. Giminez was playing to the radio crowd and grandstanding. Control the financing, you control the size of government.
Are you sure that was Raul? take a closer look could be Natacha in drag.
Pretty disgusting special meeting. County Commission clearly doesn't get it. I think we need to reform now or get our legislators to move to regionalize county government. Forget the day to day governance of unincorporated dade county - we need to redistrict and shift the unincorporated area into neighboring municipalities finally putting an end to this horrific commission dictatorship. Let authorities or special regional boards deal with airport, seaport, water and sewer, DERM. This shit faced commission has seen its last days. Lets start with another recall.
We are now learning that Alina Hudak, our new county manager is bringing back all burgess cronies to oversee the county depts. She also moved Alex Munoz who was an assistant county manager and moved him to be asst. director of parks and recreation under P&R Director.
None of the rank and file can apply for these jobs, these are just reserved for cronies. wonder what his benefit package is...he should also get a demotion in his salary...wonder if that was done. Self serving idiots - all of them. they are just hiding staff and moving them from one budget to another making them look like they are actually reducing their budget when they are just pawning the position to another budget.
It's disappointing that Vanessa, with her master's degree in political science, can't understand that at-large seats would violate the Voting Rights Act. We've been to this movie before. But that was in 1993, when Vanessa was still in diapers. A federal judge declared that the County could not use at-large seats and the judgment is probably still effective.
Even FIU political science professor Kevin Hill, one of Vanessa's college mentors, posted on Vanessa's Facebook page that at-large seats would violate Black voters rights. Seems she didn't read that, either.
Great...Martinez replacing Seijas? One Socialist for another!
Anthony: that's why we need to draft Pizzi to run for VNS's seat.
Terry, baby needs a good haircut.
Things are getting dirty already. CD being circulated around town with four musical jingles that are poking fun at Carlos Gimenez...the Julio Robaina machine directed by Ralph Arza is in full operation...this will get ugly....
I agree...a second recall would get their attention. Beyond that, do we have the ability to vote in someone of quality?
Who would an "at Large" seat violate anyone's right let alone black people?
Seriously. Are we at the point now that if your guy doesn't win it means your rights are violated?
At both a national level and in numerous local districts around the country, courts have struck down at-large seats where 2 things were present:
1) a history of discrimination and deliberate political disenfranchisement of a specific protected class or community of interest;
2) where at-large districts would cause the breaking-up of districts specifically drawn to ensure that minority voting power is not deliberately diluted (while not an at-large district, an example of such deliberate design to enhance minority representation would be Cong. Luis Gutierrez's congressional district in Chicago)
This is not a case of saying your rights are violated if your preferred candidate doesn't win, it is instead about preserving districts drawn to ensure effective minority voter representation in areas where it has been suppressed. That is the reason why the vast majority of at-large districts that have withstood court challenges are in the Rocky Mountains, the American West, or exurbs, where there has been no large-scale historical presence of ethnic minorities, no history of discrimination and no breakup of a district that would cause the dilution of minority voting power.
The use of at-large districts in areas with patterns of racial/ethnic voting ensures that small minorities are effectively prevented from ever electing a candidate that represents their community.
Victor Diaz was right two years ago and he is right again. Vote NO until they go to two four year terms including prior years. We want change 2024 is too far away with these zombies in charge.
For proof play Souto's rants from yesterday, just imagine what he will say in 2024.
Raul Martinez is starting to remind me of Fulgencio Batista; supposedly he staged his last coup d'etat because he ran out of money -- I'm not kidding! Thank God there's no such political events in this country, and someone should tell Raulito that ENOUGH IT'S ENOUGH! Haven't the voters rejected him enough, already? Yes, I know that the Pino posse needs to place one of their guys in Natacha's seat, but they are so obvious it's really getting to be repulsive! They need to keep their crooked merry-go-round running.
We the people, we Not want more commissioners. We want to CUT less commissioners. It is Not good idea The Mr. R. Martinez run for my distric. I will not Vote for him. We want new faces and new ideas.
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