Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Alex Penelas for County Mayor? That's an April Fool's Joke ... by gimleteye
There is an April's Fools joke making the rounds. It ended up in The Miami Herald this morning, suggesting Alex Penelas, the former county mayor, "confirmed after weeks of speculation, that he's seriously considering a run" for county mayor. Penelas' running for county mayor is outlandish as his joke campaign of running for the US Senate. If Penelas were to run, Eyeonmiami will be there. Cue, the rewind button. This won't be difficult. Promise.
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Yep. And Gimenez there's talk will bow out of the Mayor's race, but will be named County Manager. And the beat goes on...The beat goes on.
Gimlete, I'll contribute to the Penelas document pool with my files on HABDI and Shiver. You did make me laugh, though, in a very un easy kind of way with this one.
Someone needs to do a political version of the ESPN replay. That's where you get old geezers back together to decide a questionable high school game once and for all. This time it's Raul Martinez vs Alex Penelas in a showdown for the title of biggest political loser of the 80s and 90s. Call it the Con vs the Clown. Elian Gonzalez can be the referee.
It certainly feels like the end of Rome.
Can someone sing Send in the Clowns...
Hail Caesar (insert local political hack here instead)! Oops, the Ides of March has already past.
There are some fine, upstanding South Florida Commissioners/Mayors/School Board Members/City Administrators et al currently in jail who might do better, or the ex convict pool of politicians waiting in the wings to also be anointed to the Mayor spot.
Sorry to make such light of all of this but the current slate of candidates just scare the daylights out of me. They're all bad, every last one of them and those waiting to file too.
With the mention of Ceasaar and the Ides of March I will make it official that I CATO will be running for county Mayor. My Platform
-Free Gas (passed by yours truely) every Tuesday
-Luvcrative Airport Contracts for everyone!
-6 figure do nothing jobs for anyone that shows up and promises to kick some of it back
-Zoning Changes for $100 (Cash left in a bathroom stall in a posh Coral Gables restaurant and don't forget to pick up the tab for lunch and my 5 Martinis too).
-$8,000 toilets in every bathroom.
I'm a sinch to win Ceasar ain't got nothing on me even after 2 millenium.
All the "putzes" out there that wanted to recall Alvarez...preparate! This county deserves everything and every clown jokester candidate that will be a clear DOWNGRADE that it has coming.
Sorry King Norman, but the sh*t is about to hit the fan in County Hall. But hey, keep spending your millions sucker lmao
No one was ever able to lay a glove on Alex when he was Executive Mayor. His friend's got rich, but no one committed a crime. I will support Alex just to see King Norman dance like Rumpelstiltskin.
Excuse the sophomoric question, but aren't there term limits that prevent Pinellas from running?
Seems pretty obvious that many people have forgotten about Penelas's record. Here's a start: he forced Merrett Stierheim out because the unions squeeled during contract negotiations. The result? County unions control the government and are paid handsomely to do so.
Again, I ask the question - do term limits prevent him from being Mayor? Didn't he serve two terms?
G.O.D. to answer your question I am chanelling my german shepperd who is the reincarnation of CATO the younger who was arroused by all the chatter about Rome, Ceasar and the Ides.
The Penelas questions re term limits is an interesting one someone should look at the charter and see if its specific as two "consecutive" terms. meaning you can skip a term or two and come back to steal again.
Sec. 3.01 - County Charter - Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, effective with the term of Mayor scheduled to commence in October, 1996, no person shall be elected as Mayor for more than two consecutive four-year terms. Neither service as Mayor or County Commissioner prior to the terms scheduled to commence in October, 1996, nor service of a partial term subsequent to October, 1996, shall be considered in applying the term limitation provisions of this section.
Seems worth a court challenge.
"Miss me yet?" Carlos Alvarez
Sorry, couldn't resist......
OK, so then let's take this to the next step. If this be the case, then anyone taking that position could only run for one 4-year term?
As far as term limits I believe it works this way, he served 2 terms as executive mayor hasnt served any as strong mayor; different position.
Strong Mayor is a new office - AP can serve.
Yes, he can run again - consecutive is just that in-a-row. He can run.
Should he is an entirely separate matter.
I wish Jimmy Morales would change his mind and run.
I have a problem with that as substantively it is the same office.
What about the other question: if anyone taking that position wants to serve two more 4 year terms, could they?
"...no person shall be elected as Mayor for more than two consecutive four-year terms." This can reasonably mean that once a person serves 2 consecutive terms as Mayor, he or she cannot be elected Mayor again ever.
Two consecutive 4 year terms means just that. If he sits out some time, even a day, he can be elected for another set of 2 consecutive 4 year terms. Alex can come back. Your wishful thinking changes nothing.
Hey, Norman! Reap what you sow, baby!
Why have an election on May 24? Why are we bowing to Norman Braman threats? Time to take control and appoint Alex Penelas, Interim Mayor of Miami-Dade County. Tha would be a logical choice and the county will save $10 Million. What a country! Commissioner Barbara Jordan will lead the charge.
Why not appoint Victor Diaz as Interim Mayor. That would make Emperor Palpatine -- er, Norman Braman -- happy. And isn't this what it's all about?
The Board of County Commissioners will not allow Norman Braman to dictate what they do. Appointment is back on the table and the county will save $10 Millons. They are such fiscal consevatives.
They need to call for emergency meeting for later in the week prior to the April 18 in order to avoid four day rule.
Brillant behind the scene moves.
I heard MarionBarry had retired down here maybe we can talk him into running...."biatch set me up!"
Emperor Palpatine & Marion Barry vs the Roman Empire & CATO the German Shepard...........All within the same blog comment?
Star Trek has nothing on Star Wars (or Miami Dade Politics)in this Mayoral war.
And, we can make Terry Murphy their token bat boy.
newest rumor is that Alex P has the 7 votes needed to receive an appointment as interim Mayor. Its a done deal folks, mark my words, Alex P has it locked up.
Furthermore, CG will bow out so that he can run for Mayor in 2012 as an outsider looking in.
Robaina leads in fundraising 2 to 1 towards Gimenez as well. Marcello is lost in the clowds searching for the next seat to run. I am thinking Grounds Keeper at the new Marlin Stadium. Your thoughts?
If Charter Change is taken off the ballot and an appointment is considered, I think the Community would be favorable to Merrit Steirheim (sp). Believe me, no one in my South Dade neighborhood has forgotten about Penellas. That appointment, if the poster is correct, will cause more anarchy down here than it did with the Elian Gonzalez fiasco.
Executive Mayor, Strong Mayor, King Mayor. These titles all talk about one position. The adjective used to precede the title, in my opinion, relates to the powers of that person. If not, every time the powers of the commission or the mayor's office were changed, we could deem that to be a different position. Not only would term limits be involved, but I think we would have to have new elections for the whole lot of them. Think about it. If I hired you to be a dog walker, then this does not mean I want you to be a milk man.
I will be royally pissed if Penelas is appointed or voted in.
"no person shall be elected"
Does an appointment nullify that? In other words, can you be appointed, then elected for two more terms? To take this to the extreme:
A mayor could be recalled in the first year of his term, appointed for 3ish years, run for 8 more years...in addition to 8 years in the past! That would total a whopping 19 years. Something is wrong here.
Al Gore: “the single most treacherous and dishonest person” he dealt with in the 2000 election.
Penelas: “I wasted too much time with the trappings of the office of mayor, the celebrity of being mayor. I should have spent more time governing,”
Norman Braman:“Alex Penelas is as responsible for the mess in this community as Carlos Alvarez... I think it would be a catastrophe for the community for Alex Penelas to be returned to the office of mayor.’’
Interesting quotes, right. Taken from Miami Herald Article.
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