RELAX, LARRY HAS IT ALL UNDER CONTROL!

Go check out Investigation Miami and The Straw Buyer if you want to sleep better at night knowing who is looking out for the finances at City Hall.

Just remember that the City's finances were "squared away" based on the PROJECTED revenue from Red Light Cameras purchased from the Phantom Mayor and the takeover of the Miami Parking Authority. 

So how did that work out for ya?

PHANTOM MAYOR IS GATEKEEPER TO CITY HALL

Sources tell TBM that a meeting with the Mayor can only be brokered through the Phantom Mayor Armando Gutierrez.

For a fee, the Phantom Mayor will arrange a meeting with mayor Regalado.

$10,000 for a meeting.

$25,000 for placing an item on the City Commission.

$50,000 if it passes.

City Hall is for sale, to the highest bidder.

More billboards anyone???

TOMASS, WILL THE "LITTLE PEOPLE" BE LAID OFF?

Miami Today reports that "Miami plugged a massive budget hole last fiscal year without layoffs, but midway through this year pink slips might be inevitable."

The Shameless Mayor tell them:

"We come to the same situation in two weeks.  By the third week, we're going to have to start reducing costs in salaries. So people will have to be laid off."

But who does the shameless Mayor plan to layoff?

We remember when then Commissioner Regalado told the Biscayne Times:

"My fear is that, come budget process, the little people will be the ones affected and the big salaries will not be touched. To me that is not only wrong but also immoral."

Will the Mayor go after people like Crapp, Spring, Bru, the fire and police unions that make the big six figure salaries?

Hell no!

Regalado only cared about the "little people" when he spent his every waking hour attacking the previous administration. 

The Herald Mayor's Press Office and its reporter Press Secretary Chuck Rabin are put on notice.  

If Regalado and his administration go through with layoffs, it will be of the same "little people" that Regalado's demagoguery bullshit talked about when he was Commissioner.  

Regalado must be held accountable or perhaps his morals have changed now that he is mayor.

$659,724.33 AND COUNTING, WHO IS THE MONEY GOING TO?

Office of the City Attorney:

"To provide the full range of legal services and representation to the City Commission, and the Administration in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective manner." 

"The office employs approximately 58 professionals including two Deputy City Attorneys and 21 Assistant City Attorneys, who provide legal advice and serve as counsel to the City’s elected public officials as well as all appointed officials, and all boards and departments. Lawyers in the Office of the City Attorney are recognized for their excellence in the area of local government law and are experienced and skilled in many practice areas, including civil rights and tort litigation, government contracting and procurement, land use, labor and employment, public records, sunshine law and ethics." 

These 58 "professionals" despite being "recognized for their excellence" and that are "experienced and skilled in many practice areas" CANNOT defend Mayor Regalado, Tony Crapp, Larry Spring, Diana Fernandez, and others from an SEC investigation.

Ms. Bru "so far, has spent $659,724.33 on outside counsel hired to represent the city."

Did the Mayor's Press Secretary ask what firms this money is going to?  

Did any of these firms contribute to Regalado's mayoral campaign?

What about the campaign of Regalado's daughter, Raquelita, did the firms contribute to her also?

And exactly whom is the Shameless Mayor speaking with at the SEC to make a claim that "the city will likely agree to some type of fine without an admission of guilt."

Chuck:

The people of Miami are TIRED of your lazy ass bullshit reporting, especially when you take every single word that comes out of the Shameless Mayor Regalado at face value.

People's hard earned tax dollars are being wasted every single day by Tomas Regalado, his Phantom Mayor Armando Gutierrez, and the completely moronic and inept Tony Crapp.

Now we add you Chuck to the list.

Your constant attitude of "looking the other way" and providing excuses for Regalado and his band of cronies make you an accomplice.

The people are NOT STUPID Chuck, irrespective of what the opinion is at One Herald Plaza.

You and the Herald are now fully complicit with the corruption going on at City Hall.

REGALADO DESCARADO - REGALADO BRAZEN SHALEMESS

Appearing as a comment on yesterday's posting, this YouTube video is making the rounds in Miami, calling Mayor Regalado "un descarado" translating to brazen and shameless.

Produced by the mysterious "Yudislady," the video shows montages of Regalado with the lyrics talking about Regalado's game machines and mafia connections. 

Meanwhile, the Herald Mayor's Press Office reports that "The City of Miami’s revenue projections for the current year were so overly optimistic that a reserve fund once flush with $141 million may be almost completely tapped by the end of the month, less halfway through the 2011 budget year."

Herald reporter Mayor's Press Secretary Chuck Rabin does not include a single quote from the shameless Mayor, or any indication as to how Regalado plans to fix this dire fiscal emergency.

Perhaps Mayor Regalado and Phantom Mayor Armando Gutierrez were too busy cashing their checks from the gaming and billboard industry to speak with Rabin.

Tony "I don't know" Crapp offers no help either except to say that "the city was looking into building a new marina south of Virginia Key that could add revenue to the reserve."


We wonder if the new Marina will come with giant LED billboards.

Regalado, Crapp, Spring, and the Phantom Mayor are running the city straight into bankruptcy.

ANOTHER POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED - PRESS OFFICE STAYS QUIET

Another City of Miami Police officer is arrested, this time for stealing!

Hot on the heels of Veldora Arthur's indictment, NBC 6 reports that Miami police officer Vernell Reynolds "has been charged with fraud and three counts of grand theft after she lied to get thousands of dollars from the "Step Up for Students" scholarship fund, officials said Tuesday."

We also learn that Ms. Reynolds is a high ranking member of the Police Union, the same Union that backed Mayor Regalado and wanted former Chief John Timoney out because Timoney's discipline had lowered morale in the department.

NBC 6 goes on to state that:

"News of the arrest adds to the Miami Police Department's growing reputation of a corrupt unit."

We thought that Armando Aguilar and the rest of the Union were bitching when Timoney was Chief. 

It was Aguilar who said of Timoney:

“There’s been nothing but turmoil since he started at this police department.  It’s been hell on our troops. He’s basically destroyed morale.”

That is why Regalado replaced Timoney with Exposito.  But now the police has a "growing reputation of a corrupt unit?"

How's morale now boys??  Were the seven shootings not enough to satisfy your "predator" cravings?

We'll see how long it takes the Herald Mayor's Press Office to report on this.

Maybe Chuck will actually do some work and tell everyone it is NOT the first time Officer Reynolds has been in trouble.

She has been "sanctioned for removing, while in police uniform, an electric meter box from an apartment she was renting to a third person and for placing the box in the trunk of her City of Miami police car."

Thankfully, we're paying people like Veldora and Reynolds to keep us all safe!

LUKE IS RIGHT: SARNOFF IS A RACIST IDIOT

We love Uncle Luke's latest column.

Our favorite:

Sarnoff "began justifying why it is okay for a police officer to shoot first, and ask questions later. Following up on the seven shootings in black parts of the city since last summer, he told Ferre police officers are nervous when they pull people over in certain neighborhoods. He said he understood why they would shoot someone who ducked down in a car.

"He might even be justified in killing the suspect because his hand slips off the steering wheel. If that's the case, then why did the Miami Police Department go almost two years without shooting somebody when John Timoney was in charge?"

That's easy Luke!

John Timoney knew what he was doing.  Miguel Exposito has no business being Chief but he has a dossier on every elected official at the City of Miami and was able to become Chief because Tomas Regalado has no balls and was coerced by the police union.

As further evidence of the lack of balls, Exposito now goes around town talking shit about the Mayor, the house boy Dunn, and the ever so experienced Manager, and they do nothing about it.

"Sarnoff is the worst politician in Florida"

Hmmmm, he's pretty darned close.

But let's call this one a tie with "shit for brains" Regalado whose "keen knack" for hiring gave us Chief Exposito and Tony Crapp.