GOODBYE MIAMI!

Gimenez or Robaina isn't much of a choice.

Xavier Suarez is vindicated.

Tomas Regalado is still in office.

Marc Sarnoff will win re-election.

The Miami Herald doesn't care.

Kathy Fernandez-Rundle doesn't care.

The voters don't care.

We were offered a high paying job in Austin, Texas. So we're outta here.

Goodbye Miami!

Before we leave, we can reveal that the REAL reason Regalado voted against the baseball stadium is because the Florida Marlins yanked Armando Gutierrez' contract. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

We leave the fight to Al Crespo, Investigation Miami, The Straw Buyer, and all the other bloggers we are proud to have fought with.

But after the latest election results, we're afraid...

Miami will never change.

I'M NOT WORRIED

The State of Florida fucks Miami over for film incentives but TOM ASS has no response.

Miami Today says that "State budget changes might impact Miami's power to lure future television series and movie productions, but so far there's no organized response on the part of the city."

"I'm not worried," Mayor Tomás Regalado said Friday. The day before, he had attended an event with the producers of "Rock of Ages," a film being shot this summer. "They told me they had been to Detroit and they had considered Los Angeles. They chose to come here, and said they were glad they did. They like the light here; they like the water."

Meanwhile, Tony "I don't give a" Crapp has not hired anyone to head the film office. Someone should call Gottlieb and see what he thinks.

"Lawmakers this past session changed the state's $242 million film incentive funding to cap the amount that can go toward television production. The legislation, structured to urge filmmakers to do feature work in other parts of the state, was sponsored by Rep. Steve Precourt, an Orlando Republican in whose district Universal Studios lies. It offers a 5% incentive to projects that film outside of South Florida."

"The economic impact for South Florida could be $523 million in wages and 87,000 in jobs, said Jeff Peel, director of the Miami-Dade Office of Film and Entertainment."

It's not like we need jobs or money down here.

Sarnoff has it all figured out...

"But if Miami takes a hit when future film incentive funds are divvied up, "then I guess the Dade delegation isn't doing its job," Mr. Sarnoff said."

"Put it this way: there's no reason Walt Disney Studios should have better lobbyists than Miami does."

Hell no!

Miami has Armando Gutierrez and Steve Marin!!!

VOTE LUKE!!!

WFT MIAMI?????

TOP 5 REASONS THE RAPTURE SHOULD HAPPEN TOMORROW

or

DUDE, WTF!?!?!

(in no particular order)

1. THE MIAMI HERALD AND NORMAN BRAMAN ENDORSE "MAYOR LOCO" XAVIER SUAREZ

(SUAREZ' LAST TERM IN PUBLIC OFFICE WAS CUT SHORT BY A JUDGE BECAUSE OF RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD -- SUAREZ SAYS HE WILL BE A GOOD COMMISSIONER BECAUSE HE IS PROUD OF HIS SON, ALSO RUNS ON HAVING LOWERED THE CITY MILLAGE RATE, FROM 9.9 TO 9.7)

2. WE SUPPORT REGALADO BLOG

(THERE'S ALWAYS AN ASSHOLE IN EVERY BUNCH -- WHO KNEW ADA/ANGEL/ARMANDO HAD SO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS?)

3. MIAMI POLICE CHIEF MIGUEL EXPOSITO STILL ON THE JOB

(SEVEN POLICE SHOOTING DEATHS ARE PERFECTLY FINE, PAUL PHILIPS GOT PAID $70,000 TO SAY SO -- IT'S ALSO PERFECTLY OK TO ACCUSE THE CITY MAYOR OF CORRUPTION ON SPANISH LANGUAGE TELEVISION)

4. TONY CRAPP JR. STABS REGALADO IN THE BACK

(IT'S NOT ENOUGH HE GOT YOU A $200,000 JOB, NOW YOU HAVE TO FUCK HIM OVER TO KEEP IT)

5. MARC DAVID SARNOFF, ESQUIRE, "THE ETHICIST," IS HEADED TOWARD A LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN NOVEMBER

(RAISES SOME SERIOUS $$$ FROM THE SAME DEVELOPERS AND LOBBYISTS HE DECRIES -- GET READY FOR MORE LESSONS IN ETHICS -- GOOD LUCK DONNA MILO!)

MR. REGALADO GOES TO WASHINGTON, AND FAILS!

He takes a shot at Diaz in his State of the City address.

He says that:

Unlike other mayors, when I go to Washington, I have not asked for a leadership position or to be appointed to some advisory board, instead I have tried to speak to our legislature and the Obama administration…

He holds a rally with the "poor peeple" to tell DC that the city needs more federal CDBG funds.

He goes to Washington to take pictures with Marco Rubio.

Marco Rubio tells him to fuck off. An aide sends a message saying "Senator Rubio has decided not to introduce or co-sponsor CDBG legislation at this time."

Can't even get the Senator to personally send him a message.

Maybe it's because Regalado's "Fourth Son" Angel Zayon once called the Senator "a faggot."

Do you really think anyone in their right mind would appoint Tom Ass to a leadership position or an advisory board?

So how's DC working out for ya, Tom Ass?

WE ENDORSE LUKE FOR MAYOR!

There, we said it.

And unlike "other" blogs that encourage you to "be serious," we will do no such thing.

In any other "serious" city, if the mayor or other politicians were caught doing half the things we and others have reported, they would be hauled off to jail.

But not in Miami.  This is not a serious town.

Luke has been right on all the issues.

Luke is right that It's Time to recall Mayor Tomas Regalado.

Luke is right that Marc Sarnoff is a racist idiot.

Luke is right that Mayor Regalado is an idiot too.

Luke is right that with bodies hanging over his head, Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito has to go.

Luke is right that Surprise, Surprise, Michelle Spence Jones is innocent.

Luke is right that Screw the curfew: Miami is not a Communist Country

Luke is right that Miami-Dade's black commissioners have failed the people.

Luke is right that the TSA is racist and stupid.

Luke is right that Rick Scott acts like a drug addict.

And,

Luke is right that the Heat should Give Chris Bosh the damn rock!

We also completely agree with Luke:

Casinos, Pot, and Fun: The Key to New Jobs in Miami-Dade

If we're all going to get fucked anyway, might as well enjoy it.



TAKE BACK MIAMI SAYS:

WORK IT OUT AND VOTE LUKE FOR MAYOR!

THE SMARTEST MAN IN MIAMI

I get a $185,000 a year salary.

I get $800 a month for my car.

I get $200 a month for my cell phone.

I get free health care and a pension.

I get 46 days off.

I've never had a job other than working for Tomas Regalado.

I don't make any decisions and my boss won't dare fire me.

I don't even live in the City of Miami!

The best thing is...

You pay for it all.

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.

REGALADO$ LOVE THE MARLIN$ MONEY

Well known for his vehement opposition to the Florida Marlins stadium deal, Mayor Tomas Regalado and his daughter Raquelita have no issues in taking money from the team.

The latest example comes from this Herald Press Office article about a new playground for Citrus Grove Elementary School in Little Havana.

When the School Board (of which Raquelita is a member) could not give money to the school to build a new playground because they spend all their money paying the six figure salaries to administrators, the private sector stepped in and pitched in the money for the new playground.

Among the biggest contributors to the $59,000 price tag?

Hunt Construction, builders of the stadium, and the Florida Marlins.

This did not stop Tomasito and Raquelita from grandstanding and taking credit!

Read the list of contributors here

Neither Tomas nor Raquelita gave a red cent to this project.

Is this because Tomas still claims to be poor and worth $5,000?

What about Raquelita?  We are sure that a successful attorney such as her could have spared $1,000.

It's ok for Tomas to dump all over Hunt and the Marlins, but it's ok to take their money and stand there for a photo op when he needs one.

This fucking hypocrite and his daughter need to go!

RAQUELITA: THE SIXTH COMMISSIONER

Raquelita Regalado has become the sixth City of Miami commissioner feeling it her right to attend meetings of the City of Miami and act as a co-participant with her father the mayor.

Here we see two recent examples where Raquelita attends a press conference where Mayor Regalado is calling for a census recount and at a meeting held yesterday where the City Commission opposes cuts in federal funding.

We are hard pressed to come up with any reasons why a school board member would care about either the census or cuts in community development block grant money other than she is running for mayor of Miami and using her father to insert herself into the business of the City of Miami commission.

Back in March we told you how Raquelita already has begun plans to run for mayor in 2013 when her dad steps aside and her recent behavior confirms our predictions.


With Raquelita positioned for 2013, and her brother waiting in the wings, it is time for people in Miami to realize what's going on, or we are all to suffer more Regalado ineptitude well into the next two decades.

CHUCK, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAYOR'S PHONE RECORDS?

Remember the lawsuit from the Herald, demanding that Mayor Regalado turn over his phone records?

And the settlement where the Herald would get "records of [Regalado's] cell phone calls during October police raids that resulted in 28 arrests and the seizure of hundreds of video gaming machines."

Did Chuck and his pals at The Herald Press Office find anything?  

 

Why haven't they published the records?

WHY DOES THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAVE THE CITY BY THE BALLS?

Poor poor poor Commissioners...

The Florida Legislature has them by the balls!

"Miami commissioners say they are being squeezed into settling a lawsuit by a politically connected owner of a billboard company that is using its Tallahassee influence to undermine an ordinance that could mean more than $4 million a year to city coffers."

Squeezed?

By who? A couple of well connected lawyers?

What bullshit!

Why does the City of Miami spend hundreds of thousands on high paid Tallahassee lobbyists?

Can't any of them talk with the Speaker and Senate President?

Why doesn't the Mayor get the Speaker and Senate President on the phone and tear them a new one?

What about rallying the Dade delegation (the largest state delegation) to your side?

What about calling his pal the governor?

Nope.

For Tomas, it was just a lot easier to blame everything on Manny Diaz.


Tomas has ZERO influence in Tallahassee.

His army of lobbyists can't change that fact.

That's why it's so easy for a well connected lawyer bring the entire city to its knees.

Thanks a lot TomAss!

GIVE ALL OF US THE PULITZER!

We just had to laugh when we read that the L.A. Times has won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the big salaries paid to public officials in the town of Bell, California.

We laughed even harder when the Miami Herald reported it, noting the irony that in a city full of corruption, the Herald applauds the L.A. Times, while ignoring their own backyard and walking away empty handed.

The Pulitzer Prize for public service, in our opinion, should be awarded to Al Crespo and his Crespo-Gram Report, to Investigation Miami, The Straw Buyer, Random Pixels, and this humble blog, for exposing the power, corruption, and lies that have dragged the City of Miami down to the corrupt Third World gutter it has become.

While newspapers congratulate one another in the Pulitzer award circle jerk, it is the blogs that are truly reporting what is happening in government and looking out for taxpayers.

Congratulations to us all!

REGALADO SELLS STOREFRONT BILLBOARDS TO HELP PHANTOM MAYOR GUTIERREZ

On the April 14th City Commission agenda, Mayor Tomas Regalado proposed an ordinance entitled "Temporary Vacant Storefront Window Signs" in effect allowing billboards to be placed on vacant storefronts all over the city.

Well, guess who represents a company that specializes in storefront advertising?

You guessed it!

The Phantom Mayor himself, Armando Gutierrez.

Pearl Media "specializes in converting vacant retail storefronts into advertising opportunities."

They "afford advertisers the opportunity to 'own the streets' with a reach, frequency and impact that isn't possible through traditional outdoor methods. We offer a powerful medium that transforms windows of vacant retail real estate into engaging high impact advertisements."

It also lines the pockets of well connected lobbyists.

More billboards, just what the City of Miami needs.

Tomas will stop at nothing to help the Phantom Mayor.

And with Mark Siffin throwing around millions for more billboards, even at Bicentennial Park, soon Miami will be known for the visual pollution, and that includes covering the entire city with tacky billboards.

Just look at the MRC...