Miami’s Crazy Joe Carollo loses yet another court round against recall effort

Miami’s Crazy Joe Carollo loses yet another court round against recall effort
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Miami Comissioner Joe Carollo on Thursday lost yet another attempt to stop his recall. This time, none other than the Florida Supreme Court told him and the city of Miami they have no case.

The city of Miami was sued by the political action committee behind the recall in March after City Clerk Todd Hannon refused to pass the petitions along to the county elections department — probably at the direction of City Attorney Victoria Mendez. The recall group won right away when Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Alan Fine ruled that Hannon had no authority to declare the recall petitions insufficient or late. He simply has a ministerial duty to pass the petitions along to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections and ordered him to do so immediately. The city appealed and appealed again and again.

This Supreme Court ruling Thursday rejecting the case should put a stop to that.

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This is the fifth or sixth court loss — it’s hard to keep count — for Carollo, who has been fighting the recall since it was announced. That’s right, even before the 1,900+ signatures were turned in, the city of Miami’s legal office, under Tricky Vicky Mendez’s direction, was conspiring to delay, stop or challenge the recall one way or another. Remember the “cheat sheet” they created where they revised the timeline interpretation and researched ways for Carollo to get his attorneys’ fees paid by the city?

In other words, they were never going to just comply with the legal process. So why stop now?

The city’s appeals may have come to a dead end, but Carollo filed an independent lawsuit last month to Joe Carollo recall Marc Sarnoffstop the recall based on the same reason — that they were turned in late — as well as three or four other reasons por si las moscas. Carollo’s attorney, the infamous Ben Kuehne (pictured here sitting next to the city attorney at the first hearing), has a plan B, C and D. If the petitions are not late, then they state the wrong reason for a recall. If it’s a valid reason, then it wasn’t in multiple languages. If that’s not necessary, the recall group also paid petition gatherers.

It’s obvious they are grasping at as many straws as they can.

The attorneys for Take Back Our City, the recall PAC formed by Roads resident Robert Piper, are confident their winning streak will continue in the new case. “We will win that one as well as it will be evident that the city was, again, breaking the law to protect Carollo,” said JC Planas, the former state rep turned niche election lawyer.

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“I have lost track as to how many rounds we have won,” Planas told Ladra Thursday. “I stated in the beginning that the city acted inappropriately, but what I have seen from the city of Miami against my dear friend and co-counsel, David Winker, the depravity of Joe Carollo and the city of Miami has no rock bottom.”

Planas is talking about the 96-page dossier on David Winker that was sent “anonymously” to city commissioners and others last week. The one with a deep dive into Winker’s life — driving record, credit, social media “assaults,” and permit history, among other things. The one that looks like “opposition research” prepared by an attorney and investigator for a practiced politician. The Twitter posts mocking Carollo and posting stories about the commissioner’s abuses and failures wouldn’t be called “assaults” by an anonymous single parent. It sounds personal.

And the dossier has had the intended effect already, using city inspectors to post a notice of violation on his home Friday with bogus code violations, including having a home office, detailed in the dossier. Ladra has a feeling we haven’t heard the last of it.

“It has been quite a week,” Winker told Ladra Thursday, “with the city slapping me with code violations for working from home during the pandemic, after a 96-page dossier on me was disseminated to the city, to beating Carollo once again at the Florida Supreme Court. But being called a ‘scumbag’ by wife beater Commissioner Carollo was the highlight.

“That is a badge of honor,” he said.

What Winker needs more than a badge is eyes in the back of his head. And a security team. And a bodycam.

 

 

 

 

 

11 Responses to "Miami’s Crazy Joe Carollo loses yet another court round against recall effort"

  1. Carollo is already robbing oxygen..why oh why didn’t he catch the Rona? He’s the prime age for it..come on Darwin and mother nature do us favor and take this fool

  2. Wait did theTruth just call someone dumb, and proceed to use the word corrupted? I think you mean corrupt. But you definitely sound oh sooooo bitter. Did Victoria take your meal ticket? Did her husband not pay you well as a laborer. It sounds personal. Keep being salty, and let it really brew.

  3. Bitter Truth seems to be Mr. Morales, which is the surname of Vicky’s husband. She is embarrassed to take on the name, because he is as dumb as a rock. Then again, the Bitter Truth might also be one of her stupid and corrupted Assistant City Attorney or a Miami City Commissioner. The Truth of the matter is that they all are starting to blend in. You can’t tell them apart. 😂😂😂

  4. The truth seems to have worked for the city attorney at some point, and was probably fired. then he proceeds to put her husband in the mix like if he actually knew him. jealous? you are probably a lawyer that got fired by vicky or you are a JD that never passed the bar. too funny! you talk about family being hurt here, what families? are they the one living on David winkers street, when he drives with a suspended license. The recall will never happen. they can dance all they want, nothing has happened. they will be knocked out procedural. and if it goes to the county, good luck collecting 4500 signatures. the unethical part is hilarious, lets see how many federal tax liens does she have, or suspended licenses? not her, but David sure does. so good luck with “jc” ive never won a recall Planas winning this. and by the way is fire fee joe going to fund the recall of his son ricky arriola? Truth i heard vicky is hiring for paralegals. lol.

  5. The truth of the matter is that none of this could occur unless the City Attorney obliges to do the dirty work. There are innocent family and lives being hurt here. You need to fight fire with Fire. Victoria Mendez and her family should experience the same. The husband is a bum who is as lazy as it comes. Has not had a stable job in years. He claims to be in the business of flipping homes, which is bullshit. It is time to start demanding the removal of the City Attorney. Every Commission meeting should start with residents demanding the City Commission to take action. VICTORIA MENDEZ IS CORRUPT AND UNETHICAL!

  6. Let’s not forget about the Miami-Dade County Ethics and Public Trust Agency who was involved in not pursuing anything in Relation to Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo. The Miami-Dade County Ethics and Public Trust Agency is a protection raquet for all Politician’s, Lobbyists and the Miami-Dade County Political Elitists .The Deep State of Miami-Dade County is alive and well !

  7. Sorry to Say I trust more Joe Carollo Than ALL Those you Mention ! Half of Them are Worthless ?

  8. As JC said this morning on the radio, the lower appeals court now has to “enter a mandate” (effectively, order to the lower court to proceed). But like you said, Carollo’s (and the City’s) first and only lawsuit challenging the legality of the recall process is asking for everything to stop pending that legal review.

    Every politico in Florida is looking at this case to see how the court develops rules for future recalls. If the court opens up the rules to allow the various tactics and strategies of the petitioners than watch for a lot more recall attempts (which includes a new threat by the local Democratic Party to repeat this effort against Ricky Arriola, a Miami Beach commissioner and son of Joe Arriola who has financially backed this effort…for another story…but recall threats can get ridiculous like this).

  9. Crazy Joe Carollo uses no ethics City Attorney Vicky Mendez and doormat Art Noriega to force the taxpayers to pay to defend CRAZY JOE. Carollo keeps losing in court BUT the taxpayers are getting screwed.

  10. They haven’t really won. Covid will not allow anything further until next year when Carollo is up for election. Unfortunately all this is meaningless and to say we have won, not really. Joe keeps buying time.

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