Last Night Mayor Susan Gottlieb, City of Aventura; Mayor Glenn Singer, Town of Golden Beach; Mayor Norman Edelcup, Sunny Isles Beach; Mayor Col. Kenneth Weinstein, Bay Harbor; Mayor Jean Rosenfield, Bal Harbour Village; Mayor Bernard Klepach, Indian Creek Village; Mayor Daniel Dietch, Surfside and most of the Commissioners and Council people were there for the Miami Dade Mayoral forum, moderated by Michael Putney, in Aventura. Also in attendance was Michael Karp from the School Board and me.
Conspicuously absent: Hialeah Julio Robaina.
I don't care what else he had planned, Julio should have been at this forum. Ignoring a large segment of the County is political suicide. It tells people that you think they don't matter. The forum was well attended by actual voters, not just flunkies from the various campaigns. Only Julio Robaina and Wilbur 'Short Stop' Bell were not there.
I added in this millage chart because of the dumb-ass comments. There are about 60,000 people in these seven cities, including Norman Braman.
Although the population in Hialeah is much larger, at over 200,000 the registered voters hovers around 80,000. The percentage of registered voters in the seven cities is much higher. For example, 14,136 is the number of registered voters in Aventura more than 1/2 the population. Sweetwater has only about 1/3 its population as registered voters (4,675 registered voters - its population is at about 14,226).
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Julio figures he doesn't need the Aventura vote.
7 Cities, not just Aventura.
7 Cities that fit inside of Sweetwater? More like 7 speed traps with overtaxed citizens.
7 Cities which are densely populated (Aventura has about 28,000 people in 3 square miles)and has one of the LOWEST millage rate in the County at 1.7261 in 2010. Sunny Isles Beach has a millage of 2.8860 and Bal Harbor's is 2.8619.
Sweetwater's population in 2004 was 14,226. Sweetwater's millage is 4.6618 in 2010.
Get your facts.
The population of one of these 7 cities is larger than Sweetwater's. Area does count when figuring voters, amount of voters does.
An aside: Florida City and Biscayne Park have the highest millage rates at 8.9.
Well of course he wouldn't show, there's no one there screening the questions for him. He could be asked about his loan sharking or numerous ethics issues and ongoing investigations into his finances... Can't have that now can we?
Can I get some more background info on this Mayoral forum? When/Where did it take place? How many people were in actual attendance? I'd like to know more.
None of the mayors listed were Hispanic. Mr. Robaina, in addition to being incompetent and unethical, is also a bigot. Time to retire this clown.
if you want to know more, read the article and look at the pictures and count. It was last night.
I read the article. Count heads? I'm sure that will give me a more accurate number rather than you just giving me an estimate. You were there, right? Just started reading Eye On Miami, and judging by your back-and-forth with commentators, you're kind of a douchebag. Just thought I'd let you know.
yep.
We love Genius our cranky writer. I think being new, you don't realize that GOD writes every day for years and gets abused in comments all the time. It is a thankless job.
What kind of lazy person can't look at that photo and estimate there are about 100 people there. And, what is the difference anyway?
He doesn't seem to show up for any of them (I've been to two and heard of others he's skipped). Guess he figures he's the front runner so why ruin anything. What arrogance - to run for office but think you don't have to show yourself.
I would say your number is pretty good. I guess I should have taken a count but who knew anyone would care. People actually think I pay attention to things going on around me.
ROFL - Gen, I love you!
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