Mayor uses city email to campaign in his defense Coral Gables activists Maria Cruz on Friday submitted 1,719 signed petitions to recall Mayor Vince Lago with the city clerk, taking the first step to remove him from office. Her group needs 1,649 signatures, or 5% of the 33,000 registered voters as of the last election […]
City commission could give attorneys new direction A Miami-Dade judge last week refused to dismiss a case against the city of Coral Gables, saying the attorney and administration had no right to make massive changes without public input to a planned development that turned a restaurant into a WaWa. The Wednesday court debate also indicates […]
A group of parents and Gables residents suing the city to stop the construction of a Wawa on Grand Avenue had their first hearing Friday — and got their first victory of sorts. Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman didn’t dismiss the case, as the city’s attorneys wanted. Both City Attorney Miriam Ramos and their […]
Quietly last week, with nobody really noticing, a Miami-Dade Circuit Judge ordered the city of Miami to turn the recall petitions against Commissioner Joe Carollo over to the county supervisor of elections already — well, by Dec. 1. Team Carollo also scored a win, however, when Judge Alan Fine split the baby: He also announced […]
Some of the Miami voters who signed the petition to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo have reported getting visits in the last week or so from young women who ask them to sign another form that, while it’s not clear right away, would recant their earlier pledge, according to several sources. That means that, even as […]
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 […]
UPDATED: Once again, the city of Miami has weaponized its code enforcement office to go after a perceived “enemy.” This time it’s activist attorney David Winker who has won several lawsuits for residents and is currently representing the group trying to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo. How long do you think before Winker sues them on […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is 0-4 in his fight to stop the recall effort against him — a fight he wants to take all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, if they let him — after an appeals court denied his motion to keep the petitions in place while the legal process continued. He […]
Miami city attorneys lost their final appeal Wednesday against the effort to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo, and the city could be forced to turn the 1,900 plus petitions to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections as early as Thursday. The Third District Court of Appeals denied the request by the city and Carollo’s attorney, Ben Kuehne, […]