Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine used to call Leonor Hernandez the mother of Miami Beach. Today, we can all call her a clerk in the building department after Hernandez (seen in this photo standing next to Levine with a sign in North Beach) was fired from the mayor’s office last week and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson […]
Miami Beach campaign consultant and lobbyist David Custin is raking in the bucks representing vendors and developers with business deals before the very same people he helped get elected. It’s nice work if you can get it. It also smacks of influence. If you put people in office it stands to reason they owe you. […]
Just because the Relentless for Progress PAC is quitting doesn’t mean we have to stop talking about how shady it was. The PAC’s chairman, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, said last week that he was going to dissolve the shady political action committee, which raked in close to $1.5 million in contributions from lobbyists, contractors, […]
Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson announced Thursday that he was going to close down the shady Relentless for Progress political action committee he chairs and has been championing and defending for months. He says he will return whatever is left of the $1.4 million they had collected as of the end of July on a […]
The list of people who are calling that shady Miami Beach Relentless for Progress PAC for what it is — at best, a conflict of interest, at worst an extortion scheme involving Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson — is growing and growing. Commissioner Deede Weithorn sounded the alarm early and Commissioner Ed Tobin […]
Relentless for Progress has $1.4 million to spend on propaganda to push the agenda for Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, who want to elect a slate of pocket commissioners to do their bidding. But they can’t afford a proofreader? A video posted on the web Tuesday by the political action committee […]
Finally! Someone has stepped up to the plate to challenge Miami Beach Mayor Philip “Mr. Ego” Levine. Ladra’s hero is attorney David Wieder, chairman of the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board. Former Commissioner and mayoral candidate Michael Gongora, who almost got into a runoff with Levine in 2013, first announced it on his newsletter Tuesday. “He […]
Two electeds in Miami Beach are scrambling to defend themselves after their shady political action committee — the one taking $100,000 checks from vendors and developers who work in the city — came under fire from the local media. The latest salvo is a full page ad in the Miami Herald — the back page, which […]
Just what are a couple of Miami Beach electeds who are not in contested races this year going to do with the funds they shake out of city contractors and would-be developers for their political action committee? That’s the $1 million question. The two ads produced so far by Relentless for Progress — the PAC […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah “Pottymouth” Wolfson tried hard to quash a motion by Commissioner Deede Weithorn to have the Ethics Commission look into their brazen shakedown of vendors and developers who want to do business, or continue doing business, with the city. And they may have won at the dais, after the motion […]