The distribution of hateful, anti-Semitic flyers in Miami Beach and Surfside over the weekend, blaming the “COVID agenda” on a list of Jewish doctors and officials, has not just alarmed that community. Everyone is disgusted.
Police from several jurisdictions are investigating the source of the crude, false and inflammatory flyers, which were carefully left on lawns and driveways inside plastic bags so they wouldn’t get wet, with pebbles to weigh them down, so they wouldn’t fly away.
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Leaked audio of a September Zoom call organized by former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine shows that current Mayor Dan Gelber offered developers and real estate investors an inside track to get their projects built — in exchange for contributions to a political action committee.
You scratch my back, I’ll get your mixed-use mega complex approved.
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Property owners would have to make it up with increased taxes
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Miami Beach voters have a familiar straw ballot question to answer before Nov. 2: Do they want to ban alcohol sales in South Beach after 2 AM?
It’s the same question voters solidly rejected in 2017, by a very comfortable 65% of the vote. Sort of a mandate. So why’s it coming back? That’s a much better question.
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There are 16 people running for four seats in Miami Beach, but many of them are somewhat known to voters already.
They include incumbent Mayor Dan Gelber and Commissioner Mark Samuelian, former Commissioner Kristin Gonzalez Rosen, who left her office to run for Congress, and repeat candidates Stephen Cohen, Blake Young, Raquel Pacheco, Michael “Mike B” Barrineau and Adrian Gonzalez, the well known owner of David’s Cafe.
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The videos circulating on social media are shocking: Groups of men pummel people to the ground; women brawl on the street, ripping the weaves from each other’s heads; a man punches a woman in the face and knocks her out; people drink openly in vehicles and, despite closing Ocean Drive — or maybe because of it — traffic is a nightmare.
Welcome to Miami Beach Spring Break 2019, where — despite a public outreach campaign and the expenditure of $700,000 in overtime to put a cop on every corner — the chaos is such that some people in South Beach feel trapped in their homes. Many feel police have lost control.
Where is Mayor Dan Gelber amidst all this? Well, he’s having a fundraiser at the Miami Beach Golf Club on Alton Road Tuesday night.
Gelber, who is so far unopposed, probably scheduled this in advance. But it was poor planning. And perhaps it should be cancelled.
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After all, if the situation is such that you have to call an emergency city commission meeting for Tuesday morning because your police department is losing control of the streets, then maybe you shouldn’t be asking folks to fund the extension of your job Tuesday evening.
At least one Miami Beach voter posted that “hosting a fundraising event in the middle of the current traffic and crime crisis is an incredibly clueless and callous act.”
Also, Gelber has already raised $71,960 in just one month, according the the last and only filed campaign finance report ending Feb. 28. With no real challenge, he could have easily postponed this powwow.
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