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Almost 100K VBM ballots are mailed to voters in Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah
Almost 100,000 absentee ballots will be mailed Tuesday to voters in three of the bigger cities of Miami-Dade: Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah.
Election Day is Nov. 2 but local races have seen a growing number of vote-by-mail ballots every year and these have become crucial to all campaigns. Increasingly, the race is over by the time the ABs are counted.
Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo gets memo from manager = cover for firing
Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo will have to present the city manager with a game plan for not only combatting crime but for interacting with the media and for moving forward with commissioners that he has accused of misconduct and is locked in battle with.
City Manager Art Noriega also wants Acevedo — who is now accused of having crashed his police vehicle and failing to report it — to provide an evaluation of himself in his first six months as top cop in Miami.
Inquisition of Miami Police chief continues with steps to have him fired
There was another shitshow at the city of Miami Friday, as part two of the inquisition against Police Chief Art Acevedo began, conducted in tandem by the Three Amigos, who are still bristling about the chief’s memo that accuses them of misconduct and interfering with police investigations.
At one point, Chief Judge Commissioner Joe Carollo even speculated that he might be the victim of a throw-down. No joke.
Crazy Joe Carollo’s rant vs Miami Police chief Art Acevedo leads to lawsuits
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s war on the new police chief is having all kinds of fallout effects, including two new lawsuits against the city that are a direct result of Monday’s oh-so-special meeting.
And it could cost the city $28 million.
Joe Carollo vs Miami police chief may help opponents in Nov. 2 election
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s fight with the city’s relatively new police chief could become a factor in the upcoming election on Nov. 2, especially after the top cop said he contacted the FBI about the elected’s “misconduct.”
Six weeks before the election and a week or so before absentee ballots are mailed to voters, the three candidates challenging the commissioner should take advantage of his shameful, bizarre rant against Police Chief Art Acevedo at Monday’s special meeting. Because voters are taking notice.
Mark Samuelian wins in Miami Beach as challenger loses in court, disqualified
Congratulations are in order for Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian. The city election is not until Nov. 2, but Samuelian won re-election to his seat last week when a judge ruled that his challenger be removed from the ballot because he was not qualified to run.
Fabian Basabe, a New York City transplant socialite and reality TV alum turned real estate pro, filed paperwork to run in the Group 2 race earlier this month, saying he lived on Belle Isle. But records show Basabe voted in Bay Harbor Islands in the 2020 general election.
Keon Hardemon moves to punish former opponent by taking CBO funds
Miami-Dade Commissioner Keon “Pay-to-Play” Hardemon showed his true petty colors on Tuesday when he tried to take $550,000 allocated in the county budget from the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in North Miami — which just so happens to be operated by Gepsie Metellus, who ran against him last year for the seat vacated by Audrey Edmonson.
And he did it using the same dirty tactics he used in the campaign.
La Alcaldesa’s first Miami-Dade budget is a hit, gets high marks in final hearing
County employees get a 2% bonus and a 6% raise
More changes, chat coming on flawed, rushed Rickenbacker Causeway RFP
It looks like the mobilization of Key Biscayne residents against the redevelopment and privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway has found some success: Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, who had defended the RFP as a way to fund long-needed bridge improvements, sent a memo to the mayor asking for some changes and more time.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who has been the chief cheerleader for Plan Z — named after architect Bernard Zyscovich, who has been designing this makeover for about a decade — reportedly indicated she was okay with some changes.
Train wreck Miami city commission goes off rails on police Chief Acevedo
The Miami city commission keeps one-upping itself.
On Monday, during a special and especially bizarre meeting to discuss (read: get rid of) the controversial new police chief, the commission voted to give itself subpoena powers and investigate, um, themselves, as well as how the chief was hired and actions taken by him since he came to Miami.
