A stupid Facebook post — or, rather, the unconstitutional response to it — just got a bit expensive for the Village of Palmetto Bay. Remember the uproar over Palmetto Bay Councilman Steve Cody and his controversial satire about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk? The outrage. The censure. The political grandstanding. Now comes the lawsuit. On […]
Here we go again. There’s another political tempest brewing in Palmetto Bay — and, once again, it’s Steve Cody and Vice Mayor Mark Merwitzer at the center of it. This week, Merwitzer — who has made a second career out of policing Cody’s social media — issued a press release demanding that the councilman remove […]
Councilman blasted for Charlie Kirk post on Facebook The Palmetto Bay lynch mob came out in full force Monday night, and Councilman Steve Cody barely made it out of Village Hall with his seat still intact. But maybe not for long. While the mayor, the rest of the council and dozens of residents pleaded with […]
Steve Cody thought it would be clever to call the murder of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk a “fitting sacrifice.” It sounded to some like the Palmetto Bay councilman literally cheered a political assassination. But it might have been political suicide. Because now, some residents and other elected, including Village Mayor Karyn Cunningham and Vice Mayor […]
Developer may again be backing candidates The sleepy little village of Palmetto Bay may be about to get an exciting election in November. First, a little pajarito told Ladra that former and embattled Councilman David Singer – an allly of former Mayor Eugene Flinn and a critic of current Mayor Karyn Cunningham — picked up […]
Former Palmetto Bay Councilman David Singer has likely gone too far in his war against the village council and mayor comparing them to Adolf Hitler in a Facebook post Thursday and likening the removal and euthanizing of about 20 “aggressive” Muscovy ducks from Coral Reef Park to the extermination of six million Jews in the […]
For the second time this year, Ed Silva has been rejected in Palmetto Bay. The former city manager, forced to resign earlier this year, lost the election for vice mayor to Leanne Tellam, attorney and PTA mom extraordinaire, two to one. She got two for every one of his. Final score, according to Miami-Dade Elections […]
Something scary happened at the home of South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard on Halloween four years ago: a 16-year-old boy got sick from alcohol or drugs and ended up in the hospital, where he stopped breathing three times. Stoddard has been sued by the young man, who said the mayor let him drink alcohol and endangered […]