Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who was absent throughout the entire controversial redistricting process in the city, has decided he will not veto the politically self-serving and gerrymandered new map passed by the commission that divides Coconut Grove in three.
A statement issued by his spokeswoman, Soledad Cerdo, made it seem as if he didn’t veto it because he felt it would have been overturned.
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About three dozen activists and residents from Coconut Grove milled about the grassy patch in front of Miami City Hall Thursday morning in the heat — for nada.
The residents — most of the same people who went to speak against the cutting up of the Grove at every redistricting meeting — want to convince Mayor Francis Suarez to veto the map that cuts the historic neighborhood into three districts and was approved 3-2 last week.
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is under pressure from both Coconut Grove residents and black activists to veto last week’s vote on the redistricting map, which they say gerrymanders the Grove into three districts.
Suarez, who has been glaringly absent throughout the entire redistricting process, has 10 days from the 3-2 March 24 vote to issue a veto. So that means by Sunday or Monday, at the latest, depending how the city attorney’s office does the math this time.
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Coconut Grove residents beg no-show mayor to veto redistricting map
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Time-out.
More than three years after a voter referendum gave the Miami commission the green light to negotiate a lease for a real estate complex disguised as a soccer stadium on the city’s Melreese golf course, the Miami Freedom Park team is still not ready to play.
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Hialeah, Miami Beach pass local laws to limit huge rent hikes
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