Anyone who wonders how corrupt Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo keeps getting re-elected just has to look at last week’s food distribution gimmick. Over three days, Carollo says he distributed 7,000 bags of food to families in District 3 for the holidays. The bags weighed 50 pounds and were valued at $100. Some included a donated […]
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 […]
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 […]
Like a rabid dog with a bone that’s too big for him to chew, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo filed yet another lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the transfer of the 1,900+ recall petitions against him to the Miami-Dade Elections Department post haste, as ordered by not one but two courts already. This is actually Crazy […]
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, […]
The Third District Court of Appeals has decided that the city of Miami must turn over the 1,900-plus recall signatures against Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo that have been held hostage for almost three months in a massive — and possibly illegal –– effort by the city to stop the electoral process. A three-judge panel issued its […]
The arguments have been made by both sides, now its up to the Third District Court of Appeals to decide if the city of Miami has the right to determine that the recall petitions against Commissioner Joe Carollo were late or if City Clerk Todd Hannon has to simply deliver them to the Miami-Dade Elections […]
Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s lawyer has assured reporters that his client has not gone through the recall petitions filed against him at the city clerk’s office to find out who signed and who gathered them. “The petitions were in the sole control and custody of the clerk,” Ben Kuehne told a Miami Herald reporter last […]