Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez filed to run for re-election Thursday and it was treated like news. Didn’t everybody know this was coming? He’s been running for mayor practically since he was elected mayor in 2011 after the recall of Carlos Alvarez. For at least two months, the campaign has stepped it up with ads paid […]
The new August issue of the PBA’s Heat newspaper — published by the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association — takes aim at an old target right out front and center. On the cover is Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez, primping in the mirror as he “readies for the budget.” Looking back at him is his face — with […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez may be leading in polls and exuding an outward confidence that he will be re-elected in 2016, but it seems he is secretly sweating the challenge from Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado. Why? Well, because a whole 13 months from the election, there is a canvassing team going door to […]
The latest poll results on the 2016 Miami-Dade mayoral race may not be good news for School Board Member Raquel Regalado, whose numbers slipped from poll markers released six months ago. But it’s even worse news for Mayor Carlos Gimenez. Sure, he’s got a 23-point lead of his sole declared challenger, a lead you will […]
Everyone in Miami-Dade County can sigh a breath of relief! Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez has saved the day! There will be no further cuts to services and personnel, no more “sacrifices” asked of our loyal county employees, no more library closings. In fact, 10 of the 20-some libraries closed two days a week will […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado — who in March became the first and, so far, only challenger to incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez — has been calling the mayor out for months on a number of issues. She sued him on the value adjustment board and the $9 million in public funds going to Skyrise Miami. She […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez apologized profusely for the “past miscalculations” that caused sudden, big increases in taxes for property owners in 234 special taxing districts that pay for extra street lights, security and other neighborhood amenities. And then he admitted that some of the special taxing district property owners have been paying for […]
Fresh off his trip to Paris and Marseilles, France, our jet-setting Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez is meeting early this morning with one of David Beckham‘s Miami soccer team investors to, presumably, talk about a stadium again. But why? According to sources and published reports, Team Beckham is looking at two sites for a possible soccer […]
Concerns about Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s reorganization and expansion plans for Vizcaya Museum have been mounting and will have to be publicly vetted at a commission workshop to be set in the near future. Gimenez, in one of his famous last minute Friday memos, requested a workshop “in light of the public comments and media […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez‘s plan to privatize Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, transferring operations to a non-profit board like the one at the county-owned Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, comes just as the public park and tourist attraction considers a $50-million plan to renovate its existing space and expand across the street. […]