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!