Residents at budget hearings urge county to defund
As it scrambled to cover a $402 million budget gap, raised fees and cut corners on some services, the county still found ways to shovel millions into Israel bonds at a time when most of the world is condemning what can only be described as genocide in Gaza.
Many activists and residents want the county to stop funding that conflict. It’s not just activists from Jewish Voice for Peace and other progressive groups putting Mayor Daniella Levine Cava in the hot seat over Israeli bonds. It’s her own son.
Ted Cava showed up to the second budget hearing last week. He didn’t speak at the podium. But he had a black t-shirt that said “Jews say Divest from Genocide” in bright yellow letters and he told The Miami Herald that it has caused a riff in the family. Levine Cava is the first Jewish mayor in the county. “But she’s wrong on this,” Ted Cava told The Herald.
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While most of the speakers during a combined 10 hours of public comment at two Miami-Dade County budget hearings this month were there to urge for 100% restoration of county funding to community based organization and the arts or beg for no increases in transit fares, quite a few called on the county to divest from the $151 million stash of Israeli government bonds that Levine Cava and commissioners have treated like a patriotic piggy bank.
Just this summer, the county quietly renewed another $20 million in bonds, while telling taxpayers to brace for belt-tightening.
“Unrestricted and unaccountable financial support,” is what activists call it. They argue that every dollar locked up in Israeli bonds could be used here — on transit, housing, infrastructure — instead of underwriting a foreign government’s war machine.
And they’ve got the receipts. Jared Simon of the South Florida Break the Bonds campaign said it’s not just a moral issue, it’s fiscal mismanagement: “That the county decided to further commit tens of millions of taxpayer funds to Israel — at a time when it is unable to fully fund its own budget and Israel, according to the UN, is killing or injuring 100 children a day in Gaza — should strike every resident of Miami-Dade as fiscally irresponsible and morally disgraceful.”
But county hall isn’t budging. A spokesperson defended the bonds as a “worthy investment” that still carry an A rating, even if Moody’s downgraded Israel last year. And Levine Cava has already framed the money as more than just an investment. Remember after the October 7 Hamas attacks? She announced an extra $25 million purchase specifically to “send a clear message that Miami-Dade stands together with Israel.”
The commission backed her up, passing a resolution co-sponsored by Micky Steinberg, Rene Garcia, Anthony Rodriguez, Kevin Cabrera, Danielle Cohen Higgins and Eileen Higgins, praising Israel and condemning Hamas.
At the first budget hearing, Steinberg, Garcia and Rodriguez doubled down on the policy.
Steinberg said the investment is purely a financial decision.
“These bonds have an average yield of 5.01%,” she said at the first budget hearing, adding that they are “investment grade,” and that it has “no budgetary impact” to the 2025-26 budget.
“I do reject the inaccurate and offensive narrative,” Steinberg said, but then admitted that the financial return was not the only factor. “My support is based on the investment quality and support for our ally, the only Democracy in the Middle East.”
She’s not entirely wrong. While there have been some signs of burgeoning democratic political process in places like Tunisia — where it has backslid significantly since the 2011 revolution — and Kuwait, which has an elected parliament but also a freaking king. The region is mostly comprised of authoritarian regimes. But some might include Israel in that, when it comes to Palestine. The government has been criticized by international human rights observers for years about the apartheid and occupation of Gaza.
Now, it’s escalated to genocide. It’ official.
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A United Nations commission of inquiry report released last week says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births. It cites statements by Israeli leaders, and the pattern of conduct by Israeli forces, as evidence of genocidal intent.
But that’s not the only good reason to pull the money out. While Israel bonds historically have been higher risk so higher yield, many credit rating agencies have recently downgraded Israel’s sovereign credit rating. Moody’s cut it to Baa1, with a negative outlook, reflecting heightened geopolitical risk. S&P Global also downgraded Israel from “AA-” to “A+”, citing ongoing conflict and risk of escalation. Fitch likewise lowered its rating. The likelihood is it will slide lower. The outlook is negative.
Israel bonds may also be less liquid than, say, U.S. Treasuries. If you need to sell before maturity, it might be harder to find a buyer or you could have to accept a discount. So there are pros, sure. But there are plenty of cons.
And, of course, the moral issue. It may have been okay before. Tolerable. Maybe. But it’s not okay now.
The mayor insists the decision is out of her hands now that the clerk controls the county’s investments, and she’s stuck to carefully worded statements like, “No child, no human, should ever spend days without access to food.” But those posts haven’t quieted protests that keep dogging her town halls — or her own son’s decision to “take our family disagreement public.”
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Levine Cava was diplomatic when The Herald asked about the unusual family feud: “I know many, many people — including in my own family — who are extremely concerned about the situation, as am I, and exactly how we deal with it. Yes. There are differences, of course.”
Her son told the Herald that it’s a generational split with most Jewish families he knows. That reminds Ladra of most Cuban families she knows — but with the Trump thing.
Miami-Dade is not the only municipality in Florida whose investment policy specifically funnels money to Israel. Since 2016, every time one of these bonds matures, the county just rolls it over. The biggest single check was $60 million in 2020. Now the total sits at $151 million, spread across five active purchases. Of that, $25 million mature in November. Three more next year. And activists say it’s time to break the cycle. They don’t want the county to reinvest that money.
Meanwhile, Palm Beach County holds $700 million in Israel bonds — the single largest investor in the world — and Miami Beach doubled its stake to $20 million last year.
But here in Miami-Dade, the question is sharper: If we don’t have enough to cover the county’s own budget — when we are cutting abuelito‘s meals and closing a senior center and slashing programs and firing people — why are we lending money to another country?
Because let’s be real — that’s the people’s money. All the people. And they want the county to stop spending their money on war.

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Ladra hopes you weren’t planning a peaceful stroll through downtown Miami without a sidearm. Because Florida’s top cop — handpicked by Gov. Ron DeSantis himself — just told everyone to holster up and show it off.
Because that’s what we need in the Sunshine State: more guns.
Attorney General James Uthmeier, a DeSantis loyalist appointed earlier this year who is already eyeing a 2026 run, sent out a memo early last week that reads more like a campaign flyer than legal guidance. In it, he declared that open carry is now the law of the land in Florida — despite confusion, disagreement, and a whole lot of “wait, what?”
He didn’t just whisper it, either. He blasted it out on X with the memo attached, like some kind of campaign launch ad.
“Meaning that, as of last week, open carry is the law of the state,” Uthmeier posted on X, formerly Twitter, with all the confidence of a man who’s never had to walk through Miami Gardens with hardware on his hip.
Florida now becomes the 47th state to allow open carry, which means you can visibly carry a legally owned firearm in plain sight. Only California, Illinois, New York and Washington, D.C., still ban the open display of firearms.
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This sudden shift comes after a Tallahassee appeals court struck down Florida’s 40-year-old ban on openly carrying firearms. The case dates back to 2002, when an Escambia County commission candidate was arrested for standing on a street corner on the Fourth of July with the constitution in one hand and a visible handgun tucked in his waistband. Two words: Florida man.
He was convicted, but he fought it for two decades until the political winds shifted in his favor.
The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled on Sept. 10 that Florida’s ban didn’t hold up under recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. It doesn’t line up with “historic firearm regulation.” Never mind that Florida’s own Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2017. Never mind that Ashley Moody, now a senator, defended it when she was AG.
Uthmeier says he won’t appeal because he agrees with the ruling. Is anyone surprised?
And while not everyone agrees that this ruling applies statewide — some legal experts say the ruling could apply only to the 32 counties in the 1st District Court of Appeals’ jurisdiction — top cops everywhere are telling their officers to stop arresting people who openly display firearms. That might be because the Florida Sheriffs Association has advised all 67 sheriffs in the county — which would include Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosanna “Rosie” Cordero-Stutz — to stop arresting “law-abiding citizens” who want to make sure everybody at Publix sees the Glock in their pocket.
Cordero-Stutz did not answer several calls and texts for comment.
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, who has advocated in the past to uphold rights afforded by the Second Amendment, said in a statement last week that the First DCA erred in its opinion.
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“Nationwide, we are seeing harrowing levels of gun violence, marked by assassinations, school shootings, and people being killed in places of worship. This is a moment in history when we need to promote safer environments, not embolden those who could abuse the ruling’s intent to sow seeds of terror,” Fried said.
Florida Gun Law Timeline: From Concealed to Unleashed
1987 – Florida passes its landmark “shall issue” concealed carry law, becoming a model for other states. No discretion: if you qualify, you get the permit.
2002 – Local county commission candidate Stan McDaniels is arrested in Pensacola for open carry while campaigning with a visible handgun and a copy of the Constitution. His case becomes the long fuse that blows up the ban.
2005 – Florida enacts the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, removing the duty to retreat before using deadly force in self-defense.
2008 – “Take Your Gun to Work” law goes into effect. Employers can’t prohibit employees from keeping legal firearms locked in their cars on company property.
2014 – Florida passes the “Warning Shot” law, granting immunity to those who fire warning shots in self-defense.
2018 – After the Parkland school shooting, Florida raises the minimum age to buy rifles and shotguns to 21 and enacts a “Red Flag” law allowing temporary firearm removal from individuals deemed dangerous.
2023 – Permitless concealed carry becomes legal. No training or background check required to carry a hidden firearm.
September 2025 – The 1st District Court of Appeal strikes down Florida’s open carry ban, citing inconsistency with recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings. AG James Uthmeier declares open carry legal statewide, despite conflicting interpretations from local law enforcement.
“Historically, the Florida Sheriffs Association, many departments across the state, and leaders on both sides of the aisle have agreed: open carry will make Floridians less safe. The impact of this decision will have negative long-term effects on our communities and further erode Floridians’ trust in one another.”
Uthmeier’s direction of “prudence” — which apparently means letting people walk around with visible weapons — doesn’t apply in a courthouse, school, bar, college campus, or Disney World. Yes, Disney still bans guns. Mickey Mouse may be armed with magic, but he’s not packing a MAC-10.
Private property owners can still ask gun-toting guests to leave, and if they don’t, they can be charged.
In Miami Beach, Commissioner Alex Fernandez presented a resolution last week that would inform private businesses of their right to prohibit customers, employees and guests from bringing firearms onto their premises. They could even posts signs saying as much. The item was not heard because the meeting ran long, but Fernandez could bring it back at another meeting.
Meanwhile, Ladra wonders how many bar fights, parking lot standoffs, or meltdowns at Sedanos will it take before this “guidance” becomes a full-blown crisis?
This isn’t lawmaking. It’s law-by-memo. And it’s happening while DeSantis is busy auditioning for his next role — kingmaker, senator-maker, or maybe just the guy who made Florida the most armed state in the union. This is red meat for his base of gun-toting culture warriors.
So, don’t be surprised if you see one of these “law-abiding citizens” strolling into Starbucks with an AR-15 slung across their chest just because they can.

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Residents want out of agency’s ‘hostage tax’
The Downtown Neighbors Alliance — which represents about 40,000 people living in Downtown and Brickell — is done playing nice with the Miami Downtown Development Authority and city officials that have mostly ignored them.
Earlier this month, DNA fired off a formal request to Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia to investigate the DDA for waste, bloat and the misuse of tens of millions of tax dollars skimmed from residents under what they’re calling a “hostage tax.”
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“For 58 years, Downtowners have been forced to pay this additional tax without ever being given the opportunity to vote on its existence. No other Miamians live under such a system,” said DNA president James Torres, who lost a bid for city commission in 2023 and is gearing up to run again. He has been fighting the DDA tax since earlier this year, appearing before the city commission at almost every meeting begging for relief.
And he’s not wrong. Nobody else in the city has to cough up this special surtax.
The DDA’s extra levy has been hanging around since the late 1960s, when Downtown was emptying out and the city was desperate to “revitalize” it. But now that the area has exploded with towers and taxable property — $32.5 billion worth, DNA points out — the tax just looks like a cash cow for well-connected insiders. People like land use attorney (read: lobbyist) Melissa Tapanes Llahues, who was the interim chair of the DDA after Commissioner Manolo Reyes died and sits on the board. She is also hosted a fundraiser for newly elected Commissioner Ralph Rosado, who is the new chair of the DDA, this past Thursday.
“The racket stays tight while Downtowners remain hostage to double-taxation,” Torres said.
DNA laid it out in a blistering letter that paints the DDA as a bloated bureaucracy where six-figure salaries and PR fluff come before the people who are forced to foot the bill.

Excessive payroll: $3.5 million in salaries, with 14 staffers making more than $100K a year. The top three execs rake in $200K+ each. The median salary in Miami is about $60,000.

Marketing madness: Five in-house marketing gigs worth over half a million dollars combined, including a “Brand Integrity Expert” (¿qué cosa es eso?) pulling down $134,662. Add another $185K for outside spinmeisters at RBB Communications, and suddenly we’re at $736,000 a year just to tell the story.

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At least eight of the 13 people who want to be the next Miami mayor candidates will be on stage Saturday at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex on Saturday to talk about “the issues that matter most” to voters.
Or at least that’s the promise from the long list of progressive groups hosting it: Florida Student Power, Florida Rising, Engage Miami, Catalyst Miami, SAVE, Equality Florida, the Miami Workers Center, the CLEO Institute, and more.
That’s a lot of logos.
The event begins at 6 p.m., which is also the deadline for any lingering candidates to qualify. Confirmed are:

Laura Anderson – The Socialist Workers Party candidate who doesn’t have a single union endorsement.
Christian Cevallos – The former local zoning czar trying to break into the big leagues — think training wheels, but with campaign signs.
Alyssa Crocker – A GOP newcomer who’s still mostly an unknown outside her own circle, but hey, everybody has to start somewhere.
Ijamyn Gray – A young Democrat trying to tap into the “new generation” lane, but still has to prove he can hang with Miami’s political sharks.
Michael Hepburn – Perennial candidate with progressive cred who never seems to give up on running, no matter how many times the voters tell him “not yet.”
Eileen Higgins – The “petition queen,” who comes from County Hall and loves to remind everyone she qualified the old-fashioned way, clipboard and all.
Ken Russell – The paddleboard-and-yoga-mat commissioner trying to make another comeback after failing to surf his way to Congress.
Xavier Suárez – The comeback king, Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor, and dad of Francis — which is either a blessing or a curse, depending on who you ask.

Noticeably missing? Former City Manager Emilio González, the retired colonel who sued the city to get the election back on and has been polling in the top tier ever since. He told Ladra he got the invitation three days before the forum and had already committed to two other events. But, really, this is not his ambiente, anyway.
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At least he got an invite. June Savage, a real estate agent, says she’s going to crash the party. Ladra hopes they let her in — this isn’t middle school, and the more voices, the better.
“I didn’t get an email, but I plan on attending,” Savage told Political Cortadito. “Leaving me out is not letting people know what their options are.”
Savage has run for office twice before — once for the special election in Miami’s District 2 and once for Miami Beach Mayor against Dan Gelber, and was also left out of a lot of events, she said. “So this political game is nothing new for me.”
And it is a shame that former Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla — suspended from office in 2023 after an arrest on public corruption charges that were dismissed a year later — isn’t going, because that would have made it súper entertaining.
The forum will be moderated by former Democrat State Sen. Dwight Bullard, a progressive veteran with Florida Rising, and Michi Ceard of Florida Student Power. While it’s a non-partisan race, Republicans on that stage might feel as comfortable as vegans at a churrasqueria.
Organizers say the goal is to “center the voices of residents from all generations and backgrounds.” Translation: the candidates are going to get questions that don’t usually make it into City Hall’s echo chamber.
The Downtown Neighbors Association has scheduled a forum or debate for Sept. 30 (more on that later), but there are not going to be a lot more of these opportunities for voters to size these wannabes up side by side.
Expect some olive branches, some awkward dodges, and maybe even a jab or two — because, come on, it’s Miami.
This mayoral candidate forum begins at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, 212 NE 59th Terrace.

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On the same day that Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo filed the initial paperwork to run in the Miami mayoral race, the X account of former City Manager Emilio González, who is also running for mayor, was temporarily suspended. That can’t be a coincidence.
Gonzalez is the number one enemy on Carollo’s morning radio show. On Friday, the retired colonel — who sued the city after they cancelled the November elections — called it “cancel culture,” but Ladra would call it campaign interference.
According to González, the takedown wasn’t because of anything he or his staff actually posted — no, señor — but because “political rivals” supposedly coordinated mass complaints to trick the platform into flagging his content.
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“This comes straight out of the socialist playbook,” González huffed in a statement, hitting that tired old tactic almost better than Carollo does. “First, they tried to cancel this year’s election to deny Miami voters their voice. Now, they’re leaning on big tech censorship and dirty tricks to suppress our Miami First movement.”
“They will not succeed.”
He’s used to challenging the haters. Gonzalez filed a lawsuit against the city after commissioners voted in May to move municipal elections from odd- to even-numbered years to align with state and national elections. The court sided with him, saying the ordinance — which effectively cancelled this year’s election for mayor and commissioner in districts 3 and 5 — was a violation of the city and county charter. An appeals court upheld that decision and refused to hear the case a second time.
Many political observers watching the race say he’s leading because of that — the move to change the elections without voter approval was seen as a power grab and voters didn’t like it. They sort of see him as a hero, a badge he’s going to wear out front as long as he can.
There are potentially 14 candidates in the clusterbunch mayoral race Nov. 4. Nine of them qualified as of Friday afternoon. They include, most notably, Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins, former Miami Commissioner Ken Russell, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez. Another five have until 6 p.m. Saturday to qualify. They include, most notably, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo and former Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla, who was suspended from office in 2023 after his arrest on public corruption charges that were dropped late last year.
A recent poll has Gonzalez heading into a runoff with Higgins, with Russell in third place.
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The Gonzalez campaign insists its “message of reform, accountability, affordability, and putting Miami residents first” is catching fire — so much so that enemies are pulling dirty tricks to try to shut down his social media.
“We will not be intimidated,” González added, vowing to get the account restored and keep hammering away at “the elites, the insiders, and certainly not big tech executives doing the bidding of rival campaigns.”
Of course, no evidence was offered that any of that actually happened. But why waste a perfectly good conspiracy theory when you can blame “corrupt insiders” and “big tech” in the same breath?
The González camp says it’s working with X to get the @emilioformiami campaign account back up. Meanwhile, his posts can be seen at @emiliotgonzalez, where he already posted Friday about his meeting with the local Log Cabin Republicans.

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DERM gets separated, Metro Connect survives
First in a series of county budget coverage stories
Miami-Dade’s $12.9 billion budget squeaked through Thursday night — or, more accurately, early Saturday morning — after another one of those all-night marathons at County Hall that leave everyone bleary-eyed and cranky.
The biggest headline? Bus riders dodged a fare hike. That 50-cent increase Mayor Daniella Levine Cava floated back in July got tossed out like yesterday’s cafecito. Same with the 25-cent bump on paratransit for folks with disabilities.
Instead, Commission Chairman Anthony Rodriguez waved his magic wand — or, more precisely, dipped into a reserve fund meant for future transit projects — and, just like that, poof! No fare hikes. He even got a unanimous vote on it without a single peep of discussion.
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But if you think that means Miami-Dade is out of the woods financially, think again. As Commissioner Oliver Gilbert put it, this is like slapping a Band-Aid on an amputation. “Eventually we’re going to have to cauterize.”
The county is staring down a $94 million deficit in 2027, which seems small considering this year’s projected shortfall was four times as much. Still, this only means the tough choices just got kicked down the road. Again.
Meanwhile, the meeting wasn’t all hugs and kisses. Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez unloaded on Levine Cava, accusing her of “hiding the ball” and stonewalling him for months. She fired back — voice raised, finger wagging — accusing him of political grandstanding. And in one of those only-in-Miami moments, she pulled out a campaign T-shirt he had his staff handing out earlier that day to prove her point.
La Alcadesa had been silently holding the t-shirt under her desk just waiting for the right moment to shame him. Like a boss!
“I feel my reputation has been impugned,” she said, after he basically called her a liar. “You do need to show some respect.
“This unfortunately demonstrates the lack of knowledge about the budget process by this commissioner,” she said.
Ouch.
By 4 a.m., the commission had rubber-stamped the mayor’s budget mostly intact. That means higher water and trash fees, more than $80 million extra for the new sheriff’s office, and yes, still $46 million in taxpayer cash and in-kind services to subsidize the FIFA World Cup and it’s parties. Priorities, people!
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MetroConnect, the neighborhood ride service that was on the chopping block, survives — but with a $3.75 price tag per trip and fewer zones. Some cuts did stick: say goodbye to lifeguards at natural swimming holes and the Office of New Americans, which allegedly helps immigrants navigate the system.
And let’s not forget the sneaky little nugget environmentalists were screaming about: the weakening of DERM, the watchdog that often gives developers headaches. Levine Cava insists the change is just an “administrative shuffle.” Environmental groups say it’s the beginning of the end for meaningful oversight. Guess which side developers are betting on.
Several environmental advocates spoke during the nearly five hours of public comment, which was mostly dominated by a thank you chorus of non-profit heads and arts and culture boosters who got their money after some strong-arming. Other speakers lined up to demand the county divest from Israel bonds, or to blast commissioners for balancing the budget on the backs of transit riders (that was before Rodriguez saved the day).
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Either way, most of the $402 million shortfall is gone now that the money was found in the final version of the budget — proving once again that when enough people yell, the mayor somehow “finds” cash in the couch cushions.
“It doesn’t increase our confidence in the process if when we raise our voices then suddenly you find the resources,” said Commissioner Marleine Bastien, who called the budget saga “taxing on all of us.” Very funny, lady.
It’s not fair to say, however, that the money just magically appeared. It took a lot of work to go through those couch cushions and the only people who really rolled up their sleeves with the mayor to do dive in and find the efficiencies were Commissioners Gilbert, Raquel Regalado and Keon Hardemon. The others pretty much watched from the sidelines and complained.
“The information we had in August was dramatically different from the information we had in July,” Regalado said. “And it was nobody’s fault.”
Gonzalez cried about not being given information but had cancelled or walked out on several meetings with staff and the mayor. He was grandstanding for his Instagram feed (more on that later).
So, bottom line: Riders don’t pay more (yet), nonprofits get their grants, and Daniella gets her budget. But the next mayor — and taxpayers — are going to inherit the hangover from this late-night fiesta.
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