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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What the hell happened?

People are still asking themselves that after last week’s special meeting in Miami to give final approval to the redistricting.

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It’s been almost three years since Steven Miro sued the city of Miami for wrongful termination after Commissioner Joe Carollo fired him.

The former aide says it was retaliation when he reported that the commissioner used his office and public dollars to campaign for Alex Diaz de la Portilla when the latter was running for county commission. A campaign event at a Little Havana and Nutrition Center location became known as PaellaGate for the Spanish rice served to senior voters by their commissioner and his friend, the candidate.

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Before the Miami city commission could discuss redistricting at Friday’s special meeting, Commissioner Joe Carollo made a special call to order — and laid into a false narrative attack on Commissioner Ken Russell.

It was unwarranted. Carollo thinks Russell was not only behind the recall two years ago — and he is still butt hurt — but also the one behind the “little blog” story about his house being drawn into his district to protect it from the many lawsuits against him that he is bound to lose.

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Attorney says it’s gerrymandering to protect his house from seizure

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It appears that Ladra has hit a nerve.

In a community meeting last week about the redistricting process, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo lashed out against this blogger for exposing that his Coconut Grove house on Morris Lane has been drawn into his district so he can move back in and protect it from seizure when he loses one of the many lawsuits against him.

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