Scolded for having passed a racially gerrymandered redistricting map and forced to start over after a federal judge threw it out, Miami city commissioners passed a new map Wednesday that, basically, doubled down on the gerrymandering and looks a lot like the old map.
This time, it’s blatantly political.
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Commissioner should at least be removed from Bayfront Board Trust
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The city of Miami can stop paying Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s legal bills right now. Let him pay for his own appeal with the funds from his political action committee.
Carollo, who has spent more than $2 million of the taxpayers’ money defending himself from a federal lawsuit he lost Thursday, has a neat $1,380,295 sitting in the bank account for his Miami First PAC. If he wants to appeal the jury verdict — which granted $63.5 million in damages to two Little Havana businessmen who were retaliated against for supporting Carollo’s opponent in 2017 — let Carollo put his money where his big mouth is.
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Attorney says the city should also be liable because of its role in abuse
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Commissioner may appeal $63.5 million award to Little Havana partners
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Miami City Manager Art Noriega. Former city managers Emilio Gonzalez and Daniel Alfonso. Former Police Chiefs Art Acevedo and Jorge Colina. The current and former code enforcement directors.
The majority of the witnesses listed for the first amendment trial against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo are current or former city employees. Carollo was sued in 2018 by Bill Fuller and Martin Pinilla, owners of Ball & Chain Lounge and other Little Havana properties they lease to other businesses. They accuse Carollo of harassing them and weaponizing the city’s police force and code enforcement office to shut their businesses down because they supported his opponent in the 2017 election.
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