Several political action committees had good quarters at the end of the year, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed in January, ending months of reporting zero contributions in some cases.
Citizens for Justice, a PAC for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, raised $182,000 between October and November. It hadn’t reported any financial activity since August of 2020. Stuart Miller, co-CEO at Lennar Corporation, gave the biggest gift: $100,000. Real estate developer Michael Wohl gave $20,000 and car mogul Alan Potamkin gave the PAC $25,000, which is more than double the $10K contributed by car mogul Norman Braman. Spice king Joseph Badia gave $10,000.
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He isn’t up for election this year, but Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s political action committee had a really good fundraising quarter at the end of the year, getting $202,066 in contributions in the three months through Dec. 31.
What for? Maybe to pay the legal fees for his multiple appeals, since the days of him abusing the city attorney’s office are apparently numbered.
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A new PAC for incumbent reported $375 in donations
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Commissioners wife’s bank accounts could be next
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The battle cry is “Joe must go.” The aim is to remove Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo from the Bayfront Park Trust, where he is chair, because of what downtown residents say is an abuse of his power and mismanagement of Maurice Ferre Park, which is also under the trust’s purview.
In the same 24 hours as U.S. Marshalls posted seizure papers on the door at his Coconut Grove home — in connection with the $63.5 million judgement against him for violating the first amendment rights of two Little Havana businessmen (more on that later) — there’s a petition for Carollo’s removal from the Trust, begun by Downtown Neighbors Alliance President James Torres, who ran for commissioner in District 2 but lost. Torres and many other downtown residents — and anybody with a brain and a conscience — think that the new D2 commissioner, Damian Pardo, should chair these important boards that govern public parks in the heart of the district.
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He must have been joking, right?
In his State of the City address Tuesday, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talked about transparency and public trust.
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