First to burn: City Attorney Tricky Vicky Mendez
Ladra is still reeling from the last Miami City Commission meeting. So much torture and pleasure at the same time. So much happened in a span of eight and a half hours. Forgive the tardiness, but we’re still shellshocked over here.
For weeks, maybe months, Miami City Attorney Victoria Mendez has boasted that she has the three votes she needs to keep her job. But that may have changed recently.
A source at City Hall says Tricky Vicky can read the writing on the wall and will likely announce her retirement, effective in April, at the commission meeting Thursday. Probably before newly-elected Commissioner Miguel Gabela brings up his item on the agenda asking his colleagues to join him and terminate her as-, er, employment.
Miami City Attorney Victoria Mendez should be shopping for a new job.
Newly-elected Commissioner Miguel Gabela, who said on the campaign trail that he would fire Mendez, has put her termination on the agenda of his first regularly scheduled meeting Dec. 14.
As always, the candidates in our local elections are not the only ones who win or lose come Election Day. A bunch of influence peddlers, lobbyists, developers, consultants, environmentalists, preservationists and other special interests will float up with the winners on the ballot, or go down the losers’ proverbial drains.
And this has become somewhat of a tradition on Political Cortadito. So, without further blah blah blah, here are the winners and losers of the Miami 2023 elections.
Ordered by a court to go back to the literal drawing board to define new commission districts for the city, Miami Commissioners will have a special meeting Wednesday to discuss which direction to take — including the possibility of abolishing districts completely.
But commissioners don’t want to hear from the public.
Commissioner was defending illegal nightclub in Allapattah
