Eyeonmiami is not on the Miami-Dade candidate press list. A shame. But, Eyeonmiami is widely read. So, since County Commissioner Joe Martinez and Mayor Carlos Gimenez are running for mayor of Miami-Dade County, I have a question they are bound to read and maybe some enterprising reporter will ask.
In its recent Forbes ranking of 200 cities of best cities to do business, the city and region you represented your entire political careers is 181. 181 out of 200. Miami is below Dayton, Ohio and above Toledo, Ohio.
Neither of you ever responded to the Eyeonmiami claim that Miami is a third-tier American city. Apparently, Forbes Magazine agrees with us. So here is my question: if voters had put Gimleteye and Genius Of Despair in charge of running Miami-Dade County, with our priorities of taming the influence of developers and speculators and protecting quality of life and the environment, how much higher would Miami rank as a place to do business in the Forbes poll? I mean, Holy Toledo!
I am sure our readers will have a few other questions.
In its recent Forbes ranking of 200 cities of best cities to do business, the city and region you represented your entire political careers is 181. 181 out of 200. Miami is below Dayton, Ohio and above Toledo, Ohio.
Neither of you ever responded to the Eyeonmiami claim that Miami is a third-tier American city. Apparently, Forbes Magazine agrees with us. So here is my question: if voters had put Gimleteye and Genius Of Despair in charge of running Miami-Dade County, with our priorities of taming the influence of developers and speculators and protecting quality of life and the environment, how much higher would Miami rank as a place to do business in the Forbes poll? I mean, Holy Toledo!
I am sure our readers will have a few other questions.
12 comments:
What Joe Martinez knows about business you can fit on the head of a pin.
Tourism in probably our number one commodity and these politicians are slowly stripping away everything that tourists come down here for.
How stupid is that?
Do they really think more development in an over saturated, depressed pricing wise market is the answer? Do they think doing away with DERM (our last line of defense of those natural resources people come down here for) or do they think trying to compete with Vegas will net the tourism trade?
Nope.........
This third tier County is so misdirected in it's thinking, I shake my head every time I read a BCC agenda.
Tinkering with "regulations" is not the answer. Keeping a viable tourism market is.
Talking about "high tech" jobs with our deplorable public schools, traffic & crime will not attract those "high paying jobs".
If this county wants to just keep unskilled construction jobs for the sake of it, then so be it, but be careful what you wish for. And, then, keep re zoning and rock mining until you strip away everything that is currently viable to build a strong economy on, which is not a short term fix.
Let's have the Beacon council and Miami dade chamber of commerce answer the question as well. Even after so many plans and blueprints and hundreds Of thousands Of dollars over so many years.
Get Natacha Seijas to answer the question.
Here's one:
Will you solemnly swear to never again give away tax payer funds, tourism taxes or tax payer owned property to any private entity?
In other words - no more public/private ventures. This will include the feeding at the trough Carlyle Group!
Don't forget career "Senior Policy Advisor" Terry Murphy or the "award" he got from the American Society for Public Administration. Ask Terry how good he did for Miami and Miami-Dade also ranked by Forbes the most miserable city in America. This stuff doesn't happen by mistake. Larry Hawkins, does it?
Hmmm. You want me to take over? My first rule: Fruit is not dessert. That is the rule I live by. I don't know if I am governing material since I take my 'hunger' games seriously. I might jail hosts that serve fruit.
Food would be my number 1 priority. I would be talking to farmers.
The Knight brothers trusted the paper to Alvah Chapman who believed Miami needed to be guided with a strong firm hand and oh boy it unraveled from there. Then the great educator David Lawrence. Then Ibarguen. And the Knight Foundation?
Wasn't it Natacha Seijas who refused to allow GIS maps of low level areas susceptible to sea level rise to be incorporated in the county master plan? Meanwhile, isn't the Florida legislature trying to pass legislation denying climate change? And won't Marco Rubio admit to it? How much funding has the Knight Foundation given to climate change issues? Here's what was on nightly news last night:
http://www.bing.com/videos/browse?mkt=en-us&vid=95f87fb8-f39d-40ae-be64-f22fb7df2037&from=sharepermalink&src=v5:share:sharepermalink:&from=dest_en-us
All vote for the two of you to be in charge. When are you both running?
Taxes might go up with the two of you running the show. At least we would be assured good dessert choices to ease our pain. I am all for that and putting the environment first isn't a bad idea either.
The problem with asking honest good people to run is that they could never afford it. The criminals are supported by the very big money people and they have whatever amount it takes to win an election. If we could find a way to convince the honest but not to bright citizen to vote for honest people, then we would have a chance. I was many years ago the chairman of the world war 2 veterans association for a very honest presidential candidate but he could not raise the money to beat his opponent who had the big money backing them
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