Suarez was the only one who voted against moving the UDB line yesterday.
Watch the video when it is posted later today. It is 5 hours, I will find tidbits to post when it is up and I stop barfing.
Read the article in the Miami Herald Miami Dade Commissioners expand Urban Development Boundary:
Commissioners agreed to expand the UDB with an 11-1 vote, with Sosa, Vice Chairwoman Lynda Bell and Commissioners Bruno Barreiro, Esteban “Steve” Bovo, Jose “Pepe” Diaz, Sally Heyman, Barbara Jordan, Dennis Moss, Jean Monestime, Javier Souto and Juan C. Zapata in favor. Commissioner Xavier Suarez voted against. Commissioner Audrey Edmonson was absent from the vote.
Note this was an EAR hearing, what they did was not noticed for public hearing. I would have gone if I knew the Commissioners were up to no good.
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If they ever wish to revitalize urban areas while protecting the environment the UDB should NOT BE expanded.
Irony is the urban areas are the closest to the ports and major roadways where it make more sense to have warehouses and distribution centers. Current facilities there are dated and do not conform to current needs. As long as they allow expansion of UDB --- economics dictate that the urban areas will continue to be ignored and not revitalized and redeveloped. The staff at least gets it, the brain dead coalition on the commission not so much. How can those representing urban core areas vote for this? Its raw politics at its worst.
But the campaign money will keep rolling in and both the environment and urban core will suffer the consequences . Shameful
Is Monestime that afraid of Rolle to vote to move the line? Shame on him.
Suarez is completely crazy and as dumb as a house, but I would still prefer him over arrogant sleazy Gimenez. And if Suarez said he would stop the Gimenez practice of hiring incompetent cronies without competition for executive positions, I would campaign for him. But that's unlikely because Suarez has yet to address the corrupt hiring issue with legislation after watching it occur time and time again over the past two years.
dont confuse cynicism about suarez with support for gimenez. i cant stand gimenez. but are you familiar with all of the crazy things suarez did as mayor of miami in the 1990's to earn him the name "mayor loco"? do you also remember when suarez was removed from office because of massive voter fraud? aren't those legitimate concerns?
Only the American political system could allow Suarez to have more than 9 lives. We get the democracy money can buy.
If the election were today, Suarez would certainly have my vote. I watched the whole damn thing yesterday. Zapata "This is MY district" needs a reality check. About 5 hours in was his doozy to open up the Urban Expansion Area to Krome Avenue (SW 177th & SW 152nd St.). Moss & Jordan both deserve medals of honor for basically stating what was obvious. Bell, typical, tried to sell out South Dade with Zapata claiming to "save the wellfield area". She needs a map and a clue.
This benign EAR hearing went so far beyond in to a full fledge CDMP change with the changes approved not even on the Maps of what was presented in the public hearing KITS. I'm sure Bercow, DR Horton, and so many others are having a happy dance that the commissioners would pull this stuff out of a hat (to the public, not to them) without the benefit of notifying the public, it's just outragious. They literally changes the entire landscape of the UDB without notifying the public under the guise of something else.
Too bad Zapata cannot be recalled. He is obviously supporting the MDX plan to pave through our Agriculture and Wetlands to bring the expressway to Parkland on Krome Ave. He's a bad apple, actually worse then Martinez and I didn't think that was possible. Remember that Brown application (see the EOM archives). All the land he wants to bring in is South of there through to Parkland.
Back to your comments, yep, Suarez is the pick for Mayor too. Gimenez gave away Miami Dade County to the highest bidders before his last election. Now we are feeling the wrath of his bad decisions and those of the Commission.
Bell needs to go in 2014 and Zapata need to follow in 2016. Their self interests far exceed those of "MY district" to the point of ridiculously obvious. Those two are the most egregious of all of them when it comes to South Dade and their total lack of understanding our wetlands, EEL and agriculture.
Last laugh will go to those who warned against expanding the UDB as those low-lying areas will be inundated by floodwaters of super storms and then sea level rise in the new era of Climate Change. Unfortunately we will be so overextended saving downtown Miami and barrier islands with mega pumps and sea walls there won't be monies to bail out west and south regions.
ABC - Anybody But Carlos - in 2014.
Before we get a new mayor, we need to get rid of the strong mayor form of government and return to a professional manager form of government. We are a huge county and we need the professional expertise that only academic training and years of career experience can provide. We do not have strong mayor material here, we have political operatives who want to be big. They are incapable of running an enterprise of this magnitude with over 25,000 employees and the county's largest employer.
To the last anon, the professional manager form of government brought us idiots like Sergio Pereira, Armando Vidal, Steve Shiver, and crony king George Burgess at the county helm. It will not solve our problems.
Xavier Suarez managed to raise $1 million for Francisco's aborted Mayoral campaign. He could easily raise that much for a run against Gimenez. Although the time is not ripe for a recall, if Gimenez keeps on the track he is on, it will be. Expect that Xavier will be in the background on the recall, and ready and willing to step in if the voters yank Carlos from office. Stay tuned.
What about flooding with all this expansion. We often don't think to mention that. You can't be building all this stuff without the water going somewhere else. Don't want to create a larger version of Sweetwater on a rainy day. We'll become Venice.
Suarez over Gimenez any day.
Remember that Suarez was defeated in 2004 by Gimenez for a commission seat in Gimenez's first run for office. Also, Suarez ran for the County Mayor in 1996 against Penelas, Teele, and Ferre. I don't think Suarez garnered even 5% of the vote. He may vote the right way, but he comes across as a buffoon.
Suarez served three terms as City of Miami Mayor from 85-93. I think he voted with neighborhoods and environment EVERY single time.
Sidenote: Im pretty sure Suarez was found innocent of of any and all fault/wrongdoing regarding the removal of office attributed to rogue decisions made by his campaign workers. Not to mention, it occurred 30 years ago. Not fair to keep bringing that up. He has done so much to help the residents of dade county!
Those managers were not professional managers, they were political operatives. But even they had some sense of what it means to manage a large operation like Miami-Dade County.
Xavier L. Suárez is a brilliant man. So much so, that it is not obvious to the clowns running around Miami-Dade and to many who opine here. He is innately smart, incredibly well educated, ethical and above all,moral. For those reasons he is often misunderstood, more often envied and most often hated by those who bow to money and special interests.
His son's name is not "Francisco". It is Francis. His full name is Francis Xavier Suarez.
Well, if he is a Harvard graduate, he may have sense enough to bring in some talent to county government instead of bunch of family and friends who know nothing about anything.
Xavier Suarez has a bad hire in his own office. He hired the son of the lobbyist Slvester Lukis. That showed bad judgement. Of course, Gimenez is far far worse but Gimenez is the Mayor not a lowly commissioner.
He will remind you every day that he went to Harvard because he speaks like a bumbling imbecile. Clearly an affirmative action applicant. He is also another Republican cut from the same cloth as Gimenez. Next!
Meanwhile, Suarez has an item at committee next week increasing funding for an "affordable" housing project by half a million dollars while reducing the number of unites they need to deliver. More money, less product. Where does one sign up for something like this.
Lets not cannonize the xman just yet.
Suarez was removed from office as the City of Miami mayor in 1998. That was 15 years ago, not 30 as someone has suggested. Suarez was either a corrupt candidate (as I believe) or a grossly incompetent steward of his corrupt campaign. A future county mayor should not be wearing either label.
Yaz -> Suarez was not "removed from office" as either "a corrupt candidate or ... grossly incompetant steward". Humberto Hernandez, City Commissioner and candidate, engaged in absentee ballot fraud. With the tainted ballots, both Suarez and Hernandez won. There was never any claim or inkling that Suarez knew about the fraud or participated from it. Joe Carollo brought a lawsuit, represented by Eye on Miami golden boy Ben Kuehne and Kendall Coffey. Judge Tam Wilson ordered that a new election be held, but that Suarez continue in office in the interim. The Third District Court of Appeal reversed Judge Wilson and ruled that where there is substantial absentee ballot fraud, the remedy is to toss out ALL of the absentee ballots and only use the ballots cast on machines. With absentee ballots removed, Carollo received the most votes and was placed into the Mayor's office. Thus, Yaz, you are wrong on all counts. If you're going to besmirch someone's reputation, you should have the facts to back it up. (And the reason that I know this is that I was part of Suarez's legal team back then.)
Absolutely correct!
Suarez was NOT removed from office!
There was never even the faintest shadow of wrongdoing on his campaign!
To the fool who wrote above that, "he will remind you every day that he went to Harvard because he speaks like a bumbling imbecile" - a comment that makes no sense, I pose the following facts:
Xavier Suarez graduated SUMMA CUM LAUDE in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.
He continued his studies at Harvard where he received joint degrees: a JURIS DOCTOR From Harvard Law School and a MASTER'S degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He published a law review article on congressional immunities and performed a consulting study for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the issue of performance standards for new sources of pollution.
Please enlighten us with your background...
If the election were held today, Suarez would beat Giménez by a landslide!
Oh wait, with all the money lobbyists would pour on Giménez'
war chest.... ?
It is amazing how misinformed people are about the City of Miami election. I felt it was unfair to disqualify absentee ballots in that election. I thought they should have held another election if there was fraud.
True. Suarez was not technically removed from office. What the 3rd DCA actually said was: "Suarez, get the hell out of the mayor's office. Take all your stuff out and vacate that office immediately. It is not your office. You were not legitimately elected because of massive absentee voter fraud. After only 5 months of sitting in the mayor's chair, you need to get the hell out now."
As if there is some difference.
Carlos Gimenez and his flunkies like Jack Osterholt and Eddie Marquez need to go.
I hope and pray X Man runs for county mayor. Then we can get rid of him in our district. He and his staff are completely useless.
I have been involved in local issues for a long, long time for my neighborhood and area of unincorporated Dade.
I have worked with a lot of county commissioners over the years, including many outside my district.
X Man is just taking up space. He is even more of a blowhard and slacker than Maurice Ferre, if that's possible.
The guy just won't shut up, won't listen, won't get anything tangible done. Simple, basic things.
His staff is just awful, too. They are very polite, nod their heads in unison at the right times. But but they just don't understand how to get anything done at County Hall, or with the neighboring municipalities.
I do like X Man, and he's delightful at times.
He is much better suited for being hired by UM or FIU as a distinguished professor of interesting but otherwise useless information.
As I said, we do not have strong mayor material here. We keep going from one tragic situation to another.
Don't know much about X-man, but I do know he wrote an excellent letter to MDX (maybe 6 months ago?) which raised excellent questions. (Maybe was posted to this blog? Seems like he is on to their big scam. I like.
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