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.
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County employees get a 2% bonus and a 6% raise
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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.
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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.
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A ‘target list’ of commissioners’ enemies is part of questionable acts
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Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado took a slew of county officials, including Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, to Key Biscayne Wednesday to explain the controversial Rickenbacker Causeway project proposal to concerned Village residents.
Let’s just say it was not her crowd.
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