Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Christine King had her first city commission meeting Thursday and was praised and complimented by her colleagues on her solid victory Nov. 2.
“You didn’t win, you got a mandate,” said Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who had lobbied hard to appoint her last year to fill the seat vacated when Commissioner Keon Hardemon ran for the county seat. DLP said her getting 65% of the vote was a reflection of her service to the community for the past several years as president of the Martin Luther King Economic Development Corp.
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This is the second time in less than a month that Political Cortadito writes about an upcoming zoning request before the Miami-Dade Commission to build 550 homes on the abandoned Calusa Golf Course, which has turned into an organic natural preserve that his home to endangered wildlife.
Because the commission deferred the request last month. Too many people wanted to talk about it, probably. They’re hoping that those people don’t stay engaged through all these delay tactics. They’re hoping people forget that it’s coming up again at Wednesday’s zoning meeting.
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Mayor Esteban Bovo, county commissioner Rene Garcia win one, lose one
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Two ‘new’ commissioners the community already knows, and well
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Hialeah council candidate Angelica Pacheco is trying to make herself the victim, but records show that she has victimized others.
Pacheco went on Spanish-language TV and a sad Facebook interview in recent days calling the articles in Political Cortadito about her false and paid political attacks.
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Newly-elected Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo replaced Police Chief Sergio Velazquez Monday, but it reportedly had nothing to do with the dressing down of a sergeant at his swearing-in ceremony last week.
Bovo relieved Velazquez of duty and named George Fuente the interim chief as he starts a national search for a new permanent top cop. The 24-year-veteran was No. 2 in the department and it is “protocol” for him to assume the job, the mayor explained.
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