Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is having a Mother’s Day event this Friday — but it’s not in his district for his own constituents. It’s in District 4, where there is a special election next month to fill the vacancy caused when Manolo Reyes died.
Ya think Crazy Joe could be thinking to take D4 candidate Ralph Rosado, the lobbyist that Carollo is openly supporting in the race? That election is June 3 and there’s not a lot of time to do the meet and greets — or to get people to request their absentee or vote-by-mail ballots.
Even if Carollo doesn’t take Rosado (now that he is busted), it looks like an official city event. That means he is using District 3 funds and staff for an event at the the gallery at Smathers Plaza in District 4, an affordable housing community for seniors with 182 units, the same year that he is threatening to run for mayor citywide. Smathers is a beehive of super voters on 30th Avenue, about eight blocks out of District 3. And Carollo needs some help in District 4 if he wants to beat the boatload of other candidates that are signing up for the mayor’s race in November.
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Why not a Mother’s Day event? He or Rosado can bring roses with the pastelitos. The ladies will go nuts.
Who cares if he’s campaigning on city time and the city’s dime? It’s not like he needs it. Carollo has more than $1.7 million on hand in his political action committee, Miami First. But Ladra bets he has other events planned outside District 3.
The party Friday gets started at 3 p.m. and there will be music, food, entertainment, “gifts and more,” according to the poster that was spotted on a wall in one of the towers.
And, just maybe, there will be absentee ballot requests.
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