WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION!

We know that the Mayor never went to college.

We found out in the Crespo Gram Report that Felon Jose Marrero's son in law was hired by the City of Miami at an $80,000 a year job with a waiver of the educational requirement.

Now we can also tell you about the educational journey of the man who many say will be the next police chief.

Little Luis Cabrera, the "Chief of Operations/Assistant City Manager," goes around telling everyone that he is very qualified to do this job and be paid his over $160,000 a year salary because he has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree.

We were tipped off by a City Hall insider that Mr. Cabrera's MBA comes from the American Intercontinental University.

According the Chronicle of Higher Education, AIU has been under serious scrutiny and enrolls "large numbers of students who were clearly not qualified for the high-priced programs they were entering."

"'If you can breathe and walk, you can get into the school,' says a professor who
wished to remain anonymous."

"Not only is the college not helping those students, it is encouraging them to
take out sizable student loans, current and former faculty members and
administrators say."

We wonder who paid for Mr. Cabrera's MBA? Was it the City of Miami taxpayers?

Here's a lesson kids:

Forget school!!!

At the City of Miami, you don't need no education for a high paying job...

As long as you know how to kiss the TOM ASS!

WHY IS BOB MEYERS STILL HERE? TIME TO END THE NON-ETHICS COMMISSION!

Another bottle of wine Gary!  I have a coupon...

We read this morning's Crespo Gram Report and scratched our heads wondering:

Why is Bob Meyers still here?

Has he no fucking shame?

Exposed with his dockers around his ankles...

Asking his secretary to "wear something nice..."

The super ethicist has the BALLS to tell Gary Nelson:

"I go out to lunch with people all the time and I don't see where that's a big deal. Having a glass of wine or two, it's not a matter of anybody's concern but mine."

It was November 11 of last year when we reported the memo to then Mayor Carlos Alvarez accusing Meyers of the affair with his secretary.

The man who is paid $230,000 a year and is "dedicated to bolstering public trust in the administration of government by informing the public and private sectors about the laws and seeking strict compliance with them" operates outside the law however.

Instead of calling for an independent investigation, Meyers and the rest of the "ethics" commission began a witch hunt.

"Michael Murawski, an ethics commission advocate, questioned commission employees under oath in the presence of a court reporter in a bid to find out who had been “rummaging’’ through desks. According to an ethics commission report, some workers found the interrogation created a “hostile’’ work environment.

"In January, the ethics commission issued a report finding no substantiation to the anonymous allegations."

No fucking way!

Apparently for the "ethics" commission, it's not a "big deal" when the executive director takes his secretary out to extended lunches on county time, drinks "a glass of wine or two" while on county time, and then uses county resources and his subpoena power to interrogate and scare his subordinates into silence when they whistleblow.

Notice that AT NO TIME did Meyers ever deny the accusation.

Meyers finally "resigned" in February because he thinks he has "something more to offer the world."

It's now May.

Meyers is still sticking around making $230,000 from the taxpayers.

We called for the elimination of the so called Ethics Commission back in November of last year.

The excellent job done by Al Crespo reporting all the shenanigans and completely "ethical" behavior of this cast of clowns makes our case stronger! 

We told you how they spend over 2 million dollars of our taxpayer dollars.

They have 15 employees, 5 making over $100,000.

Robert Meyers - $230,747
Michael Murawski - $146,671
Ardyth Walker - $137,097
Manuel Diaz - $106,859
Christina Seymour - $102,320

AND FOR WHAT???

Crespo is right.

When will the so called "Ethics Commission" go after Mayor Regalado, Chairman Sarnoff, and the rest of them for all the free tickets they receive?

Never.

What about the back room deals with Mark Siffin and the entire billboard industry?

What about the insider dealings at the CRA?

What about turning the mayor's office into a lounge for lobbyists, including our pal the Phantom Mayor?

The list goes on and on and on.

And the "ethics" commission?

Out to lunch (with a coupon, of course).

The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics continues to breach the public trust by their actions, in-actions, and the unethical behavior of its highly paid executive director.

It's time to end this charade and utter waste of taxpayer funds.

THE STRAW BUYER DOES IT AGAIN: WTF IS GOING ON WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT?

The Straw Buyer does it again!

First it was Veldora.

Now add Thomas Thelusma to the list of City of Miami firefighters indicted for mortgage fraud.

Mr. Thelusma, who according to the Palm Beach County appraisers office owns property in Palm Beach County and has a mailing address in Pembroke Pines (with no record of property ownership in Miami-Dade County), now claims that he is indigent and asking taxpayers to foot his legal bills.

Of course for someone that is used to driving his City of Miami taxpayer funded car (with his gas and insurance paid for by all of us) to Broward and/or Palm Beach County, what's another couple of thousand taxpayer dollars to help him fight his legal case?

What's even better about all this is that the story about Mr. Thelusma came from the Palm Beach Post!  Apparently they have some journalistic integrity up there and will publish stories The Herald Press Office won't touch.

Veldora and Thomas are symptomatic of the bullshit that goes on at the City where they all think they are entitled to reach into our pockets to pay for all their shit!

What is cracker jack professional black city manager Tony Crapp Jr. going to do about any of this?

Absolutely nothing.

ANOTHER BLACK EYE FOR MAYOR REGALADO

Another black eye for Miami police says The Herald Press Office.

Instead, it should read:

Another black eye for Mayor Regalado.

But noooooooo!

The Herald Press Office can't possibly place responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the mayor whose fault it is that Chief Miguel Exposito is there in the first place.

Sure, they continue to spill ink on Julio Robaina.  Is this the twentieth negative article already?

In spite of Crespo, IM, the Straw Buyer, and so many others detailing all the chicanery and shenanigans going on at the city of Miami under the watchful black eye of Mayor Regalado, not a fucking peep from the newspaper of record.

Puppet Tony Crapp keeps spinning the same bullshit.

"City Manager Tony Crapp, who appointed Mr. Philip, told the Editorial Board on Tuesday that the assessment should be on his desk in the next four or five days. Good."

That was enough to placate the Editorial Board.

How long has it been Tony?

How much has Mr. Philip been paid by an administration that railed against the use of consultants?

Who the fuck is in charge at the City anyhow?

Mayor Regalado and his minion Tony Crapp have made a mockery of the City of Miami through their complete mismanagement and The Herald Press Office is totally complicit in not holding them accountable.

Makes you wonder why they keep writing about Robaina while Regalado, Crapp, Sarnoff, Gutierrez and the rest of them keep fucking City of Miami taxpayers robbing us all blind.

THE X MAN COMETH

Sources have confirmed to TBM that former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart is making telephone calls to voters on behalf of former Miami mayor Xavier Suarez in his campaign to be elected to the Miami Dade County Commission.

The X Man, father of city commissioner Francis (who is busy handing "out about $1 a day" to "panhandlers in the Flagami district he represents") has already amassed a $109,000 war chest from the usual suspects, including:

our pal former city manager Carlos Migoya

lobbyist Miguel de Grandy $1,000

lobbyist Steve Marin $1,000

lobbyist Syl Lukis $1,000

Rickenbacker Marina

Diaz Balart brother Rafael

And countless other citizens concerned about good county governance.

The X man has also spent $2,000 to hire Myami Marketing, headed by non other than recall figure Vanessa Britto.  We wonder if Ms. Britto really thinks that The X Man will bring reforms to county government.


Can a 2013 run for vindication as Miami mayor be too far fetched?

Poor Francis better step aside...

Papa X is ready for his comeback special.

TOMAS REGALADO IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST HYPOCRITE!

NOW

“This is a huge complex that will bring to Brickell Avenue, downtown Miami and East Little Havana an energy it has never, ever seen before,” said Regalado, who will take the nontraditional step of presenting a developer’s project to the City Commission.

“I think it needs to carry the clout of the office of the mayor to send a message that this is a huge project for the city of Miami.”

THEN

Tomás Regalado, the longtime city commissioner whose campaign platform centered on putting a stop to what he has called wasteful spending on large public projects, won a sweeping victory in Miami's mayoral race yesterday. He had attacked Mayor Manny Diaz, who was not up for reelection, on development initiatives like downtown highrises...

Ask the man most people expect to be Miami's next mayor to describe his vision for the city, and you might as well stick eight years of skyline-filling rapid development in mothballs.

"Tell the people how their money is being spent. No backroom deals. Any grandiose projects, we take to the voters,'' says Miami Commissioner Tomás Regalado. ``We do need to take a breather.''

The anti-Manny Diaz? The approach may be sticking.

Mr. Regalado comes across as favoring a quieter, simpler time in Miami’s past, serving the constituents he’s sipped cafecitos with for decades while trying to protect them from the “uncompromising dream of a bustling metropolis”. As far as he is concerned, the city is trapped between the vise-like grip of developers and politicos, and is in danger of losing its’ soul.

I have known Tomas Regalado for 30 years. I used to sell Spanish Language radio ads and do some marketing for WQBA-FM.

Tomas was a star newscaster on WQBA-AM. He is a first class gentleman. I don’t know how he has managed to survive in the snake pit that is Miami politics and government. I told him today that this day for him announcing his candidacy for mayor is long overdo.

I am most confident that he will win.

Miami deserves to be lead by a leader that cares about the people and not one that is pals with the developers and lobbyists. 

Oh Harry...

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

TOMAS HAS NO INFLUENCE IN THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE

Like the rantings of a fucking lunatic, Mayor Tomasito's latest target of attack is the immigration bill currently making its way through the state legislature.

"Our residents and businesses fear that harsh immigration bills will create a division between the local community, and harm the image of Miami as a welcoming city for tourists.”

Oh sure!

How does it feel to get your ass kicked over the billboards issue Tomasito?

And why don't you get your team of high paid taxpayer funded lobbyists to kill these bills?

Tomas has ZERO influence north of Flagler Street and everyone knows it.  That is why despite of being the marquee and most important city in the state, NO ONE pays attention to Tomas.

Both Tomas and Raquelita supported the loser in the Governor's race, and Tomas hired Angel Zayon who ran against Senator Marco Rubio and called him a faggot.

And now Tomas wants the Governor and Marco Rubio to help out the City?

Fat fucking chance!

We'll see how the budget treats you Tomasito.

We are willing to bet you will bring ZERO dollars home this session.

And how much EXACTLY are you spending on lobbyists?

And for what?

Tomas was always used to criticizing, and never leading.  Now the city suffers from his idiocy.