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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Xavier Suarez, again and again and again? by gimleteye

Xavier Suarez is likable in person, but boy: the political baggage he carries made him a political dinosaur a decade ago. The same intractable forces that spurred the unsustainable growth of Miami Dade County are now pushing the fortunes of the former Miami mayor as though the chapters in his odd history don't matter.

"Details on the 2000 election involvement of Suarez. Ousted Miami Mayor Suarez made a stunning admission ... Suarez said that he “helped fill out absentee ballot forms and enlist Republican absentee voters in Miami-Dade County” for the 2000 presidential election. “Dade County Republicans have a very specific expertise in getting out absentee ballots,” Suarez told Shapiro. “I obviously have specific experience in this myself.” Kendall Coffey, a lead attorney in the Suarez election misconduct case, found Suarez’s statements deeply troubling given his past “systematic and massive absentee ballot fraud."

Julio Robaina (TGO) is running against Suarez for the District 7 county commission seat abandoned by Carlos Gimenez who is running for mayor of Miami-Dade. Robaina, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican who once represented South Miami in the legislature, is reliably conservative. In the legislature, though, he incurred the wrath of developers by standing up for condo owners. For this bit of heresy, he was set upon by the insider, special interest lobby like velociraptors in Jurassic Park, propelling Miguel Diaz de la Portilla-- a dark hat lobbyist who turned against his public interest past thereby winning the admiration of special interests-- into Robaina's former senate seat.

Suarez' supporters evidently believe that history counts for nothing. One thing is for certain: those who don't read history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
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