THE MAYOR'S PRESS OFFICE STRIKES AGAIN: HERALD RUNS RAQUELITA PUFF PIECE

If you needed any more evidence as to the depths of how badly the Miami Herald Mayor's Press Office is in the tank for Mayor Regalado, look no further than this weekend's puff piece on First Daughter and School Board Member Raquelita Regalado.

In spite of being in office less than three months, Raquelita is already "Forging Change for Our Children" simply through her magical presence on the School Board.

The article, written by local filmmaker Joe Cardona, is replete with platitudes about Raquelita being "assertive, straight-forward, and insightful."

Cardona even threw a soft curve ball:
 
"The skeptic in me asked if that meant she would be willing to share some of her district's resources with ``needier'' neighboring areas. She instantly responded with a resolute ``Yes.''

Yes!  Of course!

The skepticism did not extend to a single question about her open advocacy on the School Board of La Ley Sports (where the Mayor's 4th Son Angel Zayon and City of Miami communications director is listed as a director) or about the involvement of city workers in her school board campaign, working on city time.

Raquelita is "[f]rank, to the point and no doubt daring,"  but she did not take time to be "frank" about how her father Mayor Regalado is running Miami into the ground, and specifically his circus infighting with his hand-picked police chief.

While we are on it, it seems that the elder Regalado has managed to piss off the other Mayor, Carlos Alvarez, and every Miami-Dade cop with his insensitive comments regarding the recent police shootings.

Appearing on Michael Putney over the weekend, Mayor Alvarez (the former Miami Dade Police director) was asked by Putney why the SWAT was not used in this incident, as Mayor Regalado suggested.


"It's a completely different scenario,'' Alvarez answered. ``This is not a case where you know, for a fact, that there is an armed subject in the house so you call in SWAT, which can plan an attack and bring special tactics."

So much for Mayor Regalado's police tactical expertise.


But this is not a contrast you will find coming from the Miami Herald Mayor's Press Office.

We also wonder if the Miami Herald Mayor's Press Office will run similar puff pieces on other newly elected School Board members, including young Carlos Curbelo (whom we heard is already making waves on the Board).

Somehow, we doubt it.

For now at the Herald Press Office, It's all Regalado, all the time.