Political Pics of the Week: Pre-Thanksgiving turkeys

Political Pics of the Week: Pre-Thanksgiving turkeys
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Next week will be all about the free turkeys given away by the costly turkeys, but today Political Cortadito’s Political Pics of the Week are kind of scattered about. We have county commissioners in their districts doing their thing and Congress members being honored or interviewed on the immigration thing. We have Coral Gables Commissioner Pat Keon for the very first time.

In other words, we’re pretty much all over the place.

Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart was on numerous TV interviews Friday after President Barack Obama’s action on immigration, saying that while he supports various parts of the executive order, he doesn’t think he has the legal authority to do it on his own.

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Meanwhile, on the same day, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was hanging out with Willy Chirino’s family at the Miami-Dade Public Schools Alumni Hall of Fame induction. IRL and Congresswoman Federica Wilson were inducted.

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That same morning, Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado spoke before the membership at the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

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Friday night, Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Zapata hosted a tree-lighting ceremony at Kendale Lakes Regional Library, part of the West End holiday extravaganza he planned.

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Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson stopped by the 7th Avenue transit village project Wednesday to thank the workers — including Miami-Dade Transit’s Froilan Báez, Albert Hernandez, Eric Thorne and Jose Vidal — who have been toiling away on the mixed use project that will include a transit hub with retail and office space, some housing and a movie theater. Photos by Ryan Holloway / Miami-Dade County

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Commissioner Dennis Moss invited a panel that included Coral Gables leaders and Coconut Grove activists to discuss the settlement over the development of the Gables trolley station. In attendance, l to r: Glenn Kephart, Coral Gables Commissioner Pat Keon, Gables City Attorney Craig Leen, Clarice Cooper, Alice Bravo and Commissioners Jean Monestime and Esteban Bovo.

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On Saturday, Raquelita joined her dad, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, and Congresswoman Wilson at the 8th Annual Borinquen Health Fair in City of Miami’s upper east side, where somewhere around 10,000 Miami-Dade County residents received free health screenings.

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On Saturday, State Rep. David Richardson — who celebrated a glorious bike ride from Miami to Key West for charity last weekend — celebrated National Adoption Day with new families at Miami Children’s Museum.

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4 Responses to "Political Pics of the Week: Pre-Thanksgiving turkeys"

  1. Dear Sweet Jesus,

    Underfund a commercial enterprise and then expect it to thrive? Been to KMart? Been to Sears? That’s what Commissioner Zapata and Bovo have voted to do for the library system. Strangle the resources and damn the future.

    Librarians can fill up your tablet and show you how to use it. Librarians are chosing both the books and the databases that can save you money and time.

    The lovely holiday theme park wrapping the Kendall Lakes Library is a showpiece to a commissioner. I’m all for it because libraries are all about community, but you seem to confuse it with an “honorable, good old fashioned holiday celebration” (which would be without political ties and strings.)

    Ask your father, Jesus.

  2. When will these library zealots and tax happy liberals learn? In a rush to save their own jobs, they don’t understand that if libraries continue on the same path with the same business model, they will become obsolete in the next ten years. If nobody has noticed, they are pretty close to that now, with declining attendance and little support from the taxpayers. In this era of families having their own personal libraries in the comfort of their own homes with the ability to pull down millions of books and periodicals worldwide at the stroke of a key, libraries have to evolve into community centers and gathering places for family activies so they are once again essential to our families, youth and elderly, or fall by the wayside like the video store or the record store. Zapata’s holiday activies throughout the next couple of months are actually an intelligent, thoughtful way to reaquaint thousands of families in Kendall with their beautiful library and park and combine holiday story telling for children, with musical and theatrical performances by Roxy Children’s theater,and wholesome family fun like snow days and just good old fashion Christmas Holiday celebration. If you want the families and homeowners to tax themselves to support libraries, they have to evolve and with the times and make themselves a gathering place for families and neighbors. A place for reading, a place for surfing the internet, a place for the visual arts, a place for performing arts, a place for continuing education, a place for self help courses, a place for social and legal counselling, and most important a place for community.

  3. I’m all for public service. It is truly honorable. However, these career politicians who “politick” for a living and do not pay their bills nor honor their contracts must be stopped. I can not comprehend not paying your mortgage for three years, and eventually losing your family home to foreclosure, simply because you choose not to work and “politick” all day. We have plenty of public servants that also work, provide for their families, honor their contractual obligations, and do NOT live off of their political committees. If you can’t afford your mortgage, or rather live off the system, for free, for over three years throughout the foreclosure process, you have no place in government, at any level. “Luz de la calle, oscuridad de su casa.”

  4. “Juan Zapata hosted a tree-lighting ceremony at Kendale Lakes Regional Library, part of the West End holiday extravaganza he planned.”

    Yes, Juan LOVES the Kendale Lakes Regional LIbrary.

    He loves it so much he refuses to fund it.

    He’s just like a deadbeat dad, ignoring child support.

    Smile for the camera!

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