He’s still got two years on his term, but an anonymous flyer denouncing Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla and warning residents about him is circulating in District 1.
In Spanish, it says Diaz de la Portilla is a career politician they can’t trust.
The Three Amigos are no more.
Miami commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla traded sharp barbs at a commission meeting Thursday — publicly accusing each other of ethical and maybe criminal lapses — in the wake of a scandal about a ghost employee at the Omni CRA who is ADLP’s longtime lackey and bag woman.
A real street fight between neighbors erupted earlier this month at an impromptu press conference about the street fight between the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County over the closure of several roads in Silver Bluff.
And it’s all in time for this year’s city elections.
A downtown activist and member of the Bayfront Park Trust Management advisory board has resigned because of a no-bid giveaway contract for $1 million worth of public art — dog and cat sculptures, like the Little Havana roosters in — for Maurice Ferre Park, which is also managed by the trust.
But it’s really about Commissioner Joe Carollo, who is chairman of the BPTM, and his handling of that group — and it’s money. This proposal originally was sent to Carollo and his wife’s personal email.
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo got his way Thursday when the commission voted to throw all the unused COVID19 relief money for grocery gift cards from the CARES federal funding into a new pot and divide it between four of them again.
Commissioner Jeffrey Watson and his $360,388 balance will stay in District 5 because, officially, it’s the neediest zone and because Watson was appointed in November and may have gotten a late start.
City commissioners in Miami could officially give the redistricting consulting contract to Miguel de Grandy on Thursday.
That’s expected. The contract was taken from former State Sen. Bill Galvano, a pal of Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, last month and De Grandy was already spoken of as the chosen replacement.
