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Dear Mr. Jeff Bezos:
You don’t know me. I am not an elected official. But I do order a lot of stuff on Amazon. And I live near your old neighborhood in Cutler Ridge. My daughter graduated from Miami Palmetto High, your alma mater. Go Panthers!
I know you are under a lot of pressure from local electeds and business leaders to bring your Amazon HQ2 here, now that you’ve scrapped New York City from the plans. And I understand it is tempting. We have great weather, beaches and culture and a diverse and technically savvy workforce thirsting for opportunities like the ones you will bring. I want Amazon here, too.
But you also have a rare opportunity to do something for your onetime home community by making some requests or setting some conditions on coming.
Read related: Mayor Carlos Gimenez lies about Miami-Dade to get Amazon HQ2
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is desperate for you to come here. He has been trying to get you here for months, dangling economic incentives in front of you and your peeps. It would be a great, big feather in his cap and he wants to boast about it as part of his legacy.
You have him right where you want him.
Friday afternoon, Gimenez wrote a desperate letter:
Dear Mr. Bezos:
As Mayor of Miami-Dade County, I would like to extend a hand in partnership and encourage you to reconsider Miami as one of the sites for your North American headquarters expansion.
I understand that Amazon has decided not to pursue an additional headquarters at this time, which is completely understandable. However, I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to reopen the lines of communication because Miami, without a doubt, has the talent, technology and low taxes to serve Amazon’s needs. In short, we are confident that the diversity, dynamic entrepreneurial spirit and openness to partnership that drew Amazon to our community in the first place continue to be worthy of consideration.
As senior executives of your team learned during their visit to our world-class community last year, Miami is committed to a successful, collaborative partnership with Amazon. To that end, I would like to personally invite you and your team back to our community to discuss how Amazon and Miami can continue to grow together. Please reach out to me directly to schedule a time when we can re-engage in this exciting opportunity.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you.
Ladra definitely wants him to hear from you, Mr. Bezos. But she wants him to hear an earful.
Read related: Carlos Gimenez taps commissioner to block return of 1/2 penny funds
You should tell him how the lack of public transportation options or the mayor’s seriousness in addressing the issue is one of the main reasons why Miami didn’t cut it in the first round. You should encourage him to stop stealing the half-penny tax that was supposed to go to the expansion of rail and rapid transit and using it to balance his budget. You should tell him to stop going to such great lengths to keep using those funds, and blocking efforts to unmingle the monies.
Mr. Bezos, you might actually have more pull with our mayor than we, the constituents he likes to ignore. Gimenez actually had the audacity to tell us during his re-election campaign that more rail was coming, when he never had any intention to do that. He had a critic removed from an independent citizen board on transportation issues.
You are in a unique position to stop some of this bullying and really actually make something happen for us.
Don’t do it for me. Do it for your fellow Panthers.
P.S.: Just in case nobody told you, Gimenez was the first mayor to kowtow to President Donald Trump when he went against sanctuary cities. And his lobbyist son worked for him. FYI.

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As Amazon continues to look at Miami-Dade as a possible home for its second headquarters, our region got a B+ ranking last month among the 20 cities being considered and county Mayor Carlos Gimenez went on Bloomberg TV Wednesday to make our case.
Unfortunately, he had to lie.
“Well, I really think Miami-Dade is the city of the future. We are building it right before your eyes,” he said on Bloomberg Markets TV’s “Mini Moment” feature, sounding very much like a used car salesman.
Even though Miami-Dade is a county. Maybe he feels he is already the city of Miami mayor.
“Our technology sector here has grown by 40 percent in the last six years,” he said, and I don’t know what that base was because it doesn’t seem like we’ve gotten that much more techy. Can anyone confirm this?
“We are a top ten college town. We have great weather. We have, uh, a great infrastructure,” he continued, because, yes, it’s hard for even him to say with a straight face.
Read related: Carlos Gimenez lies and cheats to keep control of billions
Sure, if you only count our airport and seaport, which have had billions of dollars of investments because they are proprietary funds, paid by user fees rather than tax dollars. But if you look at the county infrastructure paid for by taxpayers? Transit infrastructure? Woeful.
And aren’t we still under a federal consent decree or order to upgrade our wastewater collection and treatment system? Why, yes, we are mandated to make $13 billion in improvements by 2028 after the county was sued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for violations to the clean water act.
And what have we done to make us more resilient to sea level rise, besides talk about it an awful lot?
“And we have great talent. What better example of this than Mr. Bezos came from here and maybe that’s a little bit of a home court advantage but we have so much more to offer.”
Like what? The high cost of housing? Almost half of our residents pay 40% or more of their income toward their mortgage or rent. There is a dire need for affordable or workforce housing, but that’s not on the mayor’s agenda.
We also have a higher number of foreclosures than the national average, and they are still increasing, with 30% more foreclosures in July than the same month last year.
And while we have our first A-rating and no “F” schools for the second consecutive year, our public schools are suffering because our legislators keep siphoning funds from them to put into the charter school industry that contributes to their campaigns.
Oh, and the corruption. Not just in Miami-Dade, where the mayor has given jobs to his best friend and his daughter-in-law and no-bid contracts to his friends and contributors. Have you heard of Hialeah? Sweetwater? Opa-Locka? Google it.
Read related: MDX spent $400K on PR, including $60K for mayor’s daughter-in-law
Even Commission Chairman Esteban “Steve” Bovo agrees.
“It ain’t gonna happen. We’re not equipped for it,” he said at a commission meeting last year when Amazon first floated Miami as a possibility.  “We’re not equipped to draw 50,000 new jobs in here because we don’t have the ability to let those people move around in our community.”
And the B+ rating that CNBC gave us in August — based mostly on South Florida’s lack of technological workers — is pretty good, but not great. Austin and Dallas were both given an A.
A surprising part of the Bloomberg interview was that Gimenez doesn’t even know if or when Bezos has been back in town. You’d think he would have reached out for a meeting.
“Frankly if he comes back, and if he’s visited, he will notice that Miami and Miami Dade County is not the same place that he left some years ago,” Gimenez said.
Read related: Carlos Gimenez taps commissioner to block return of the 1/2 penny funds
Well, except MetroRail, Jeff. MetroRail is exactly the same. Not a single mile of rail has been added since it was built and opened in 1984, even though voters here approved a half penny tax in 2002 to expand the line. Gimenez has been using that money to balance the budget, paying for operations instead of improvements. That’s how he balances the budget.
Oh, and they don’t really listen to voters here. That’s typical. They steal the half penny tax that we approved specifically for expanded MetroRail and they also failed to initiate the Pets’ Trust program that voters approved by 65% in 2012.
But they didn’t mention that on the Bloomberg show. A reporter did ask Gimenez “What new debt are you taking on? New P3 projects to make sure Miami’s infrastructure is up to par?”
Rather than answer her questions, the mayor went into a state-of-the-county-like speech.
“We’ve already invested heavily into our airport. It is our leading economic generator so we’ve spent well over $3 billion over the last 10 years. We basically have a brand new airport there,” Gimenez said. “We invested over a billion in our seaport. We dredged it so it would be Panamax ready. That means we can accept the large cargo ships that are able to traverse the Panama Canal.”
Then came the hard part.
“W are investing millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars in our transportation infrastructure. We just uh,  improved, or we, oh, um, uh, approved some new highway projects to make our transit, uh, even better.”
Read related: No-brainer Miami-Dade Commission approves Kendall Parkway despite so much
Really? How is the Kendall Parkway, completed in four or five years if there are no delays, going to make our transit — which by then will be far worse — even better? The pressure valve will be at the very western end of the county, going south, after you’ve traveled more than an hour from downtown.
“We compare pretty favorably with our competitors in terms of commute times.”
That made Ladra laugh out loud.
“We are also really well connected to our neighbors. We just have a brand new rail line and passenger service to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach…all those things are infrastructure improvements that we are working on,” he said, but forgot to add “when I figure out how my kids and friends can get in on it.”
The mayor ended the interview thumping his chest when the reporter asked him about the last budget approved.
“We didn’t have to raise taxes. As a matter of fact, we lowered our taxes 11 years ago. I mean, when I became the mayor we had the biggest tax cut in Miami-Dade history. We’ve kept those tax rates flat during my administration. We haven’t had to raise any taxes.
Then the doozy: “We are providing the same or better services than we provided back in 2011 without raising taxes because we tightened our belts.”
You closed libraries — hours are still reduced at some branches — and had rolling blackouts at fire-rescue stations, remember? You are still cutting bus routes every year.
Read related: On library shortfall, Miami-Dade’s Carlos Gimenez falls short
You’ve also balanced the budget with stolen half-penny sales tax funding from the People’s Transportation Plan for the past ten years, seven of them with you at the helm, Gimenez. Bet you haven’t told Jeff Bezos that!
Don’t get me wrong. I’d love for Amazon to make its second home here. Not just for the jobs and economic impact but for the cache que te da to have been chosen over Denver and Atlanta.
But I don’t want to reward Gimenez and his pals on the commission for their bad behavior. If Amazon comes, they’ll pat themselves on the back and tell us how right they were and how we were wrong to demand rail. Or, worse, that we don’t need it.
That would just be another lie.

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