What puts a first-rate city on the map? The commitment and investment of business leaders to ensure that local government doesn't become a mechanism for public policies and the dismal race to the bottom. That's why I call Miami, the Detroit of the South, notwithstanding our good fortune at being the geographic crossroads of the Americas. Norman Braman isn't Miami's only billionaire businessman. But he is the only Miami businessman who has had the courage, guts, and determination to tackle corrupt county politics by lending the weight of his voice and financial capacity to changing a dysfunctional status quo.
"Believe me, I'd like nothing more than to be out of all this," Braman tells the Herald. I feel his pain. "I feel there is a responsibility to the community." And that is exactly right.
Where are the Miami business leaders? Where are the wealthy business leaders who once upon a time comprised the Mesa Rotonda to deal with corruption and elected officials and our "government designed to fail"? (Here is a 2009 review of Mesa Rotonda from our blog.) Where are the tort attorneys, insurance executives and bankers who measure a hundred million dollars of equity as a unit of wealth? Why don't these business leaders spend some fraction of those units organizing better candidates for local office?
Disappeared. It is not enough to shake Mr. Braman's hand at Joe's and give him a slap on the back, hail fellow, well met. Open your wallets, big spenders, for Miami (and not just its monuments to vanity); that's the only way to give due credit and do what is right.
"Believe me, I'd like nothing more than to be out of all this," Braman tells the Herald. I feel his pain. "I feel there is a responsibility to the community." And that is exactly right.
Where are the Miami business leaders? Where are the wealthy business leaders who once upon a time comprised the Mesa Rotonda to deal with corruption and elected officials and our "government designed to fail"? (Here is a 2009 review of Mesa Rotonda from our blog.) Where are the tort attorneys, insurance executives and bankers who measure a hundred million dollars of equity as a unit of wealth? Why don't these business leaders spend some fraction of those units organizing better candidates for local office?
Disappeared. It is not enough to shake Mr. Braman's hand at Joe's and give him a slap on the back, hail fellow, well met. Open your wallets, big spenders, for Miami (and not just its monuments to vanity); that's the only way to give due credit and do what is right.
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Braman supprts the Regalado regime thats says everything I need to know............corruption
Braman should run for office himself
Amen, fellows.
-CMB here we come!
Norman Braman is a bully. He buys his politicians. He needs to be investigated for election manipulation.
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