What if the Chief had accused the Mayor of obstructing an ongoing criminal investigation?
Would the Herald stay silent?
Would Jim DeFede have something to say? What about Gary Nelson?
What if the City of Miami Police had three questionable shootings? What about Four? Five? Six?
How many shootings before the press and all the "activists" (Grace and Elvis, Harry, Brothers of the Same Mind, all the various "Reverends," Max Rameau, Denise Perry, and all the rest) would have a daily call for the Chief's resignation?
What if the Mayor had said that "violence will be responded to with violence?"
What if Joe Arriola or Pete Hernandez hired an outside consultant at $70,000 to advise him on police matters because by their own admission, they know nothing about police work?
Would a certain commissioner from Flagami vociferously object to the hiring of the consultant? Would the commissioner from Flagami object to any of this?
What if Arriola or Hernandez sat on their hands, playing Hamlet and not making a decision, while the City of Miami Police continued to crumble under infighting?
What if the Chief and Mayor engaged in a public feud?
Would the Fraternal Order of Police back the Mayor?
So what's the difference?
Excellent! Finally exposing the hypocrisy that is rampant in this City and allows the politicians like Regalado to think they are above everything.
ReplyDeleteThe Herald would have crucified Diaz and Timoney, and they did so for less, so it makes you wonder what Rabin and company are thinking about when it comes to Regalado.
Rabin is thinking about "not working hard or hardly at all", while Company is thinking about $$$$$$$.
ReplyDeleteAnyone seen the Crapp tape yet?
ReplyDeleteHerald is desperate to sell 10 acres for $190 mil.
ReplyDeleteNo ethics. 50 story LED billboards approved 4 to 1 under questionable circumstances? No problem.
When is the Herald going to investigate the bribes/campaign contributions that buy the decisions that cause more billboards?
Thank you Grace Solares. Thank you Elvis Cruz. Thank you Miami Herald.
ReplyDeleteThanks to you, Regalado is Mayor and Miami is back to being a banana republic.
We miss you Manny! We miss you Timoney! Too many people have learned too late how good you were!
Tomas Regalado is still my hero!
ReplyDeleteTo 16:49,
ReplyDeleteDid you want Manny Diaz Lite, Joe "I demand the Marlins take $3.5 Billion from the taxpayers" Sanchez? Did you want Joe Sanchez? Think he would be better? Same crimes, different criminals.
MARLINS
ReplyDeleteMARLINS
MARLINS
MANNY DIAZ BAD
MANNY DIAZ BAD
Tomas Regalado can basically do anything he wants and there will always be some asshole crying about the Marlins thing.
ReplyDeleteWell, what the fuck has Tomas Regalado done about the Marlins? Not a damned thing. In fact, I know he has been to games in the owner's box.
And oh, just so you know, the ONLY reason Regalado opposed the Marlins is because they fired Armando Gutierrez as their lobbyist. Wake the fuck up!
THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW IN MIAMI THE LAW IS VAGUE
ReplyDeleteRIGHT MISS RUNDLE???
18:55
ReplyDeleteInteresting.
Armando Gutierrez was fired by the Marlins? That would explain Tomas Regalado's No vote.
Is Regalado aware the Marlins were the 1st or 2nd most profitable team in MLB? And we owe $3.5 Bil to pay off the construction costs? Does Regalado know that annual debt service costs in later years will exceed $100 Mil?
Regalado actually sits with the criminals?
The only way to get a meeting with Regalado is to go through Armando. I am willing to bet that the Marlins re-hired him so they could get Regalado off their backs.
ReplyDeleteIf Regalado was lied to by the Marlins as he claims, then why won't he go to court?
ReplyDeleteOh, because Regalado is ALL TALK and no action. He goes on TV and radio to talk shit about the Marlins but then goes to the games and has him and his family sit in the suites.
He did the same thing with the Heat, saying he is poor and can't afford to go to the games, but then he goes and sits in the suites.
At least with Diaz everyone knew were you stood, even if you were being fucked. With Regalado, he says one thing, does another. He is the most hypocritical two-faced person ever. Just ask the incredibly long list of "friends" that he has betrayed over the years.
Regalado is not "all talk and no action".
ReplyDeleteRegalado takes action to make money for Armando Gutierrez. "All Armando, All the Time."
(Of course, Manny Diaz used to funnel money and contracts to Steve Marin and other "friends and lobbyists of Manny").
Regalado is not "all talk and no action".
ReplyDeleteRegalado takes action to make money for Armando Gutierrez. "All Armando, All the Time."
(Of course, Manny Diaz used to funnel money and contracts to Steve Marin and other "friends and lobbyists of Manny").
Manny Diaz and Steve Marin ARE NOT FRIENDS.
ReplyDeleteTomas Regalado can hire an incompetent police chief whose department has 6 shootings. Tomas Regalado can hire a city manager solely because he is black. Tomas Regalado can have the attorney for a developer sit in his office and write a billboard law that benefits his client. Tomas Regalado can gave a lobbyist charge to meet with him.
ReplyDeleteAnd still, Manny Diaz?
No wonder Regalado gets away with murder when all of you continue to fixate on Manny.
All I know is that when Manny was mayor, Miami had the same problems of any major city in America. Now we have gone back to the dark past of Banana Republic politics, with the head banana in charge.
Tomas Regalado is the most corrupt mayor in the history of Miami, and that's saying a lot!
So yeah, keep blaming Manny Diaz.
Manny Diaz and Steve Marin WERE friends. Joe Arrola, Manny Diaz's City Manager hire, was also a Steve Marin friend. Those relationships allowed Steve Marin to make huge fees off City contracts. Taxpayers had to pay to divert money to Marin.
ReplyDeleteRemember Manny Diaz is the ringleader who demanded the taxpayers pay over $3 Billion to the Marlins.
Exactly, keep blaming Manny.
ReplyDeleteThere is no excuse for Tomas Regalado turning the City of Miami further into a Third World farce. There is no excuse for Regalado standing by and ignoring Miami's massive and increasing debt. There is no excuse for Regalado to appoint a rookie novice as City Manager.
ReplyDeleteBut Manny Diaz, he is bad. I am the Anti-Manny. Chuck Rabin said so.
ReplyDeleteForget Manny Diaz. He is termed out. Gone. Now he lives on his $100,000 per year City pension for which he paid not one cent. Zilch. He's laughing at the dumb taxpayers who have pay to clean up the mess he left. Who knows? Manny might even be getting money from the Marlins?
ReplyDeleteWhen you vote for a dumb ass that has never accomplished anything in his life, you expect very little from him. You all voted for Regalado and therefore cannot expect anything from him except incompetence.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the Mayor you voted for and WISE UP for the next election!
When Manny, Timoney, Hernandez and Arriola were in charge, we got professionalism because they were professionals. The bar was higher because they were capable of great things.
ReplyDeleteRegalado and cronies are buffoons and crooks. Who can expect anything good from this group? Thank you Elvis and Grace.
Manny Diaz, Joe Arriola and Pete Hernandez gave us a $3.5 Billion dollar diversion to the privately owned Marlins, the proposed $1 Billion disaster putting two broke museums on waterfront Bicentennial Park, private investment deals with disgraced Johnny Winton, a $140 mil reserve morph into a $100 mil deficit, $360,000 per year firemen, massive increase in visual pollution, and so on and so on.
ReplyDeleteHistory is history. Hard to re-write. You can keep trying though.
Dear 17:10 (Armando & Maritza)
ReplyDeleteGo back to watching the Superbowl.
How about Manny Diaz hiring that train wreck Linda Haskins? Then appointing her a commissioner? The voters gave that decision a Bronx cheer.
ReplyDeleteHow about Manny Diaz using a Larry Spring as a CFO? SEC investigating is not an If but a when.
And why exactly is Larry Spring still there?
ReplyDeleteThe Regalado platform has always been blame Manny, without offering solutions of his own.
Manny is bad, waah waah waah...
To 18:47
ReplyDeleteManny Diaz is gone. The problems he left still fester.
Tomas Regalado is too concerned with making money for Armando and unfortunately neither Regalado nor his team have the brain power or the will power to reduce the City's expenses. Disaster looms.
Why do we have to pay out great retirement packages for our political leaders. If a individual elects to run for public office why should they be authorized to collect a life long retirement. I can understand a pay check while they represent us but thats it. You dont become a elected public figure to get a great retirement, you become one to serve the community in which they were elected. I understand that here in Miami everthing is not as it seems, but how can elected officals make more in retirement than a 30 year city worker who is getting ready to retire. Its suppose to be a honor to serve the public and represent fellow citizens but big retirement checks seem to have pushed honor and duty to the curb with the rest of the trash.
ReplyDeleteIt's Manny Diaz' fault that the city manager is incompetent and can't fire the police chief. It will be Manny's fault again when the city manager can't figure out the city budget. Tomas will spend 8 years blaming Manny.
ReplyDeleteElected officials have a fantastic defined benefit pension plan because they are in charge and they gave themselves the benefit. No contributions required. Massive monthly payouts.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Spence-Jones was on track for a $2 mil payout until she got indicted and removed from office.
Spence-Jones and her staff were too greedy. Spence-Jones could have gotten $2 Mil from the City if she had just stayed clean. Instead she got caught shaking down developers and others who needed her vote.
ReplyDeleteSpence-Jones voted to give money to the Marlins. Any bribes paid for that vote?
Imagine getting a $2 mil pension and not contributing one cent?
ReplyDeleteSweet.
How the hell did you come up with a $2 million payout??????
ReplyDeleteDo you mean like a $60,000 pension per year for life? Or do you mean a $2 million payout????
Don't throw numbers out like this - it looks ridiculous.
$65,000 per year x 30 years is just short of $2 mil.
ReplyDeleteThink there are CPI annual increases?
Free health care for life?
Would you like to get $60,000 or $65,000 per year for life? Especially if you contributed NOT one cent?
Elected officials pay zilch.
You do the math?
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