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This truck is at Miami city hall calling out corrupt commissioner @JoeCarolloNow for having a chicken protestor illegally arrested (charges were dropped) after he and his wife gave a friend nearly a million of our tax dollars for a few ugly statues of dogs in a no bid boondoggle.
Now the cops are giving the truck driver a hard time but they ultimately let him continue.
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#EXCLUSIVE 🧵: @HeraldOpEd claimed they didn’t know about the arrest record of Miami District 2 special election candidate James Torres when they endorsed him, but emails from board member Isadora Rangel reveal he disclosed it to them at least 6 days before publication. /1
Three days after #BecauseMiami called them out for endorsing Torres without mentioning his arrests, the Herald ran a story about it HOURS before election day and updated their original post: “Since publication of this recommendation on 2/23, new information...has surfaced.” /2
But it wasn’t “new information.” Multiple text blasts with his arrest record were sent to district voters in early February, Torres addressed it at candidate forums throughout the month, and disclosed it to @HeraldOpEd in a questionnaire one week before their recommendation. /3
When visiting the elderly by a Commissioner requires a personal escort by "The Sergeant-At-Arms" #BecauseMiami
“The Sergeant-At-Arms Is a group of police officers whose primary mission is to provide security for the members of the Board of County Commissioners. They operate underthe supervision of
the Chairman of the Board.
the Chairman of the Board.
Sergeant-At-Arms are not personal chauffeurs and are not specifically assigned to any commissioner. Theyare responsible for providing security at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, and other locations where county commissioners are in attendance.
I wonder if DeVaugan Dames, the registered agent for lyin' George #Santos #Devolder company in Merritt Island, FL is connected to this Central FL developer. They seem to both move a lot of money to and from the #Bahamas. Could just be a coincidence...🤔
Apparently, some of the connections lead to Miami...#BecauseMiami.
There are only four known clients of the Devolder Org: ...car dealerships, a firm tied to a Long Island insurance conglomerate, and two groups linked to none other than the Ruiz family.
occupydemocrats.com/2022/12/31/mia…
There are only four known clients of the Devolder Org: ...car dealerships, a firm tied to a Long Island insurance conglomerate, and two groups linked to none other than the Ruiz family.
occupydemocrats.com/2022/12/31/mia…
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1/ "[Santos] worked at a Melbourne, FL company called Harbor City Capital that was accused by the SEC in 2021 of running a $17 million Ponzi scheme. Subsequently, he supposedly made at least $3.5 million from...company called Devolder Organization LLC.
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1/ "[Santos] worked at a Melbourne, FL company called Harbor City Capital that was accused by the SEC in 2021 of running a $17 million Ponzi scheme. Subsequently, he supposedly made at least $3.5 million from...company called Devolder Organization LLC.
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2/ The former managers of Harbor City Capital all seem to be pretty closely connected to Santos.
Melbourne, FL, and Merritt Island, FL are both located in #BrevardCounty which is home to America's Space Center at #CapeCanaveral
Melbourne, FL, and Merritt Island, FL are both located in #BrevardCounty which is home to America's Space Center at #CapeCanaveral
"Two of the firms linked to Santos and his associates are supposed strategy firms that got money from Republican congressional campaigns. One took in over $110,000 from the unsuccessful challenge to @AOC. The other did work for a candidate who claims to have never heard of them.
Payaso Patrol: Mayor Ponzi Postalita @FrancisSuarez got called out for fleeing Miami for a ritzy fundraiser in New York City while #HurricaneIan hit Florida, so now he’s hijacking rescue resources for a pathetic performative photo opp. #BecauseMiami
Last April, @CityofMiami Chief Resilience Officer quit after 11 weeks on the job; the 3rd CRO to leave since 2020. @FrancisSuarez's staff told a CRO “resilience is not a priority,” it's "too long term" with no immediate political or PR value. #BecauseMiami miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
The @CityofMiami, climate change and sea level rise capital of the U.S., removed solar panels from city hall last July without permits required by their own codes and with no plan to replace them, claimed they haven't been working since 2017 #BecauseMiami: wlrn.org/news/2022-07-1…
#BREAKING: Nilo Cruz fled Cuba for freedom, graduated Miami-Dade Schools, became the first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama, and was inducted into the @MDCPS student Hall of Fame. Now they have banned students from seeing his play. #BecauseMiami miamiherald.com/news/local/new…
"I told you, my fellow Cuban Americans, that the censors would get around to us. And they have. The day after @MDCPS Board voted to suspend recognition of LGBTQ History Month, officials quietly rejected the work of one of the most prominent Cuban Americans in US cultural life."
Rubio hasn’t had a real job since he babysat his brother-in-law’s cocaine stash house in 1985. His sugar daddy, Miami car oligarch and former Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, financed his entire political life and even bought him a teaching job at FIU. #BecauseMiami
Background (on the cocaine stash house): miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-rub…
Background (on Rubio’s FIU job that Braman paid for): nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna5…
Monday August 22nd, 2022.
News you can use. 🧵
News you can use. 🧵
CNN looks poised to become even worse than it has been. Why is there no left-of-center national news outlet?
NEW — Miami Moms for Liberty is now dictating which books are allowed in Miami public school libraries via the influence of the Florida Dept of Education under @SenMannyDiazJr.
We’ve documented the group promoting QAnon conspiracy and anti-LGBTQ hate content. 1/
We’ve documented the group promoting QAnon conspiracy and anti-LGBTQ hate content. 1/
Miami Moms for Liberty chair Eulalia Jimenez-Hincapie posted a video last year espousing QAnon conspiracy views, anti-vaccine and transphobic + anti-LGBTQ beliefs. 2/
Based on our coverage multiple media outlets have covered this as well. 3/
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Florida @GovRonDeSantis recommendation for new Education Commissioner @SenMannyDiazJr is VP at state’s largest for-profit charter school company, accused of being a "pervert" and "inappropriate teacher" by former students at Hialeah Miami Lakes High School miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
“Manny Diaz has done a great job in the Legislature on education issues ranging from teacher pay to parental rights and choice. I am confident that he will serve our state well as the Commissioner of Education." — @GovRonDeSantis, April 21, 2022 flgov.com/2022/04/21/gov…
Florida ranks lowest for education spending: @SenMannyDiazJr colluded with @ErikFresenFL (in-law of his charter school employer) to give charters more money with less accountability. Fresen went to jail for not filing a tax return during 8 years in office. miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
Friday, January 21st, 2022
News you can use. ☕
Try not to laugh...
News you can use. ☕
Try not to laugh...
THREAD: It took Miami resident @Rotulin 27 hours and 13 (!!!) city employees to pay a $75 fine. His Instagram story exposes this "absurd" system and, he says, shows "how full of shit @CityofMiami is." #BecauseMiami #CafecitoTalk #TechHub #HowCanIHelp /1 instagram.com/stories/highli…
According to the @CityofMiami website, in order to pay this $75 fine, the resident must "request a customer number" by emailing or calling the city, which he (accurately) describes as "a painfully ineffective system." #BecauseMiami /2
His email is received by @CityofMiami Finance Department Customer Service Supervisor who forwards it to a Customer Service Rep who, the next day, emails THREE additional city workers to "assist in verifying the ticket so the customer can be provided an invoice." #BecauseMiami /3
This is why buildings fall in Miami: @MayorDaniella supports and @MiamiDadeBCC approves ANOTHER extension to airport contract with MCM, the bankrupt construction company — owned by @RepCarlos's wife's cousin — behind the FIU bridge collapse that killed 6 people #BecauseMiami /1
Here are the Miami-Dade Commissioners who voted yesterday in favor of the airport contract extension for collapsed FIU bridge builder MCM, disrespecting the victims and families of this tragic act of deadly negligence: District 2 Commissioner Jean Monestime #BecauseMiami /2
Commissioner “Pay 2 Play" @KeonHardemon’s former chief of staff now works for MCM! So, of course, he voted yes. And, as everyone in town knows, Keon and his political crime family will do anything and sellout anyone if the price is right. #BecauseMiami /3
Jury orders Miami-Dade School Board @MDCPS to pay $6 million to former student of ex-Palmetto High creative writing teacher Jason Edward Meyers, accused of harassing and sexually abusing a string of female students #BecauseMiami: miamiherald.com/article2547451…
“The verdict found Meyers ‘posed a substantial risk of sexual abuse or harassment to female students,’ yet the @MDCPS district was ‘deliberately indifferent’ in how it handled the accusations.” #BecauseMiami
The lawsuit claimed that the principal and administrators at Michael M. Krop High were notified in 2008 and 2011 that Meyers was having sex with underage students, but no investigation was done — instead, he was transferred to Palmetto in 2011. #BecauseMiami
In an 8-page memo, @MiamiPD Chief @ArtAcevedo accuses Commissioners @JoeCarolloNow @Manolo4Miami and @alexDLPmiami of a "pattern of official misconduct" including attempting to improperly influence an ongoing and confidential internal affairs investigation #BecauseMiami
Chief Acevedo writes that @JoeCarolloNow has attempted to misuse @MiamiPD as his "personal enforcer against anyone he perceives as offense" including peaceful protestors he calls "agitators" and "communists" #BecauseMiami miamiherald.com/latest-news/ar…
According to Chief @ArtAcevedo, @MiamiPD has “wasted untold hours investigating business establishments because of the improper political influence of @JoeCarolloNow and @alexDLPmiami." #BecauseMiami
Florida GOP @SenMannyDiazJr collects a six-figure annual salary from Florida's largest for-profit charter school company while legislating the destruction of public schools, misappropriating millions of tax dollars to his own employers #BecauseFlorida: sun-sentinel.com/local/miami-da…
Florida GOP @SenMannyDiazJr slashed public school safety funds by over $11 million prior to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, then voted NO on a special session to address gun violence #BecauseFlorida: miamiherald.com/news/local/new…
Florida ranks at bottom for education spending; Diaz colluded with @ErikFresenFL (brother-in-law of his charter school employer) to give charters more money with less accountability. Fresen went to jail for not filing a tax return during 8 years in office. miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
Airport security is a joke. #BecauseMiami
#RIP At least 5 South Florida law enforcement officers have died from COVID-19 in just the last 7 days: Fort Lauderdale Officer Jennifer Sepot, 27, died on Saturday August 14th. She is survived by her husband and 2-year-old daughter. /1
Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Lazaro Febles, 42, also died from COVID last weekend and was laid to rest yesterday, as was Officer Sepot. He is survived by his wife, a 6-year-old son and 5-month-old baby girl. #RIP /2
20-year veteran West Palm Beach Officer Robert Williams died last Monday from COVID. He leaves behind a wife and two sons. #RIP /3
Miami cop reprimanded last year for voting in uniform while wearing “Trump 2020 No More Bullshit” mask is now relieved of duty and under investigation for allegedly making “white power” hand gesture in pic with fellow officers #BecauseMiami: local10.com/news/local/202…
Miami Fraternal Order of Police President Tommy Reyes says, "This [photo] was meant to be private between him and his SIX guys," claiming the finger gesture was referring to the number of colleagues on the officer’s shift, not white power. #BecauseMiami
The full photo contained 7🖐️✌️officers — not 6. #BecauseMiami
“It’s a cult. It’s nowhere near a school": Miami Centner Academy — owned by GOP mega-donors who banned teachers from getting COVID vaccine — is "insane and dangerous," according to parents and staff #BecauseMiami: miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
Founders David and Leila Centner are anti-maskers who cover the school's windows "to ward off potential radiation from 5G cell towers," make guests wrap their shoes in Saran wrap, and require non-disclosure agreements from employees who quit or parents who withdraw their kids.
While Leila Center demanded her employees disclose if they received the COVID vaccine, she praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — who her husband just donated $30,000 to — for banning government, businesses and schools from requiring proof of vaccines "to protect our freedom."
Miami private for-profit school Centner Academy — owned by GOP mega-donors who charge up to $30,000 in tuition — bars vaccinated teachers from contact with students, citing anti-vax conspiracy theories #BecauseMiami nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/…
School founder and CEO Leila Centner's Instagram is packed with debunked COVID anti-mask and anti-vax conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda, many posts flagged for misinformation #BecauseMiami instagram.com/leilacentner/
Two years ago, the Centners opened the academy illegally over the protests of residents — then they paid off Commissioner @KeonHardemon and Mayor @FrancisSuarez #BecauseMiami
#BREAKING: Parents at Miami's Carrollton Catholic school, including Coral Gables Commissioner and mayoral candidate Vince Lago, complain that "diversity" is "anti-Catholic indoctrination," cite far-right anti-Semitic Frankfurt School/Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory in letter
155 parents and alum at private girls Catholic school want to remove "divisive language derived from critical theory worldview" from handbook that teaches "systemic racism; marginalized communities, systemic justice and inequality; racial equity; implicit bias, microaggressions"
This 1930s-era Germany anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, revived in recent years by "right-wing ideologues, racists and other extremists," rails against political correctness and "identifies Jews...as nefarious, communistic destroyers." — via @splcenter: splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
#BREAKING: New info in the Miami-Dade COVID-19 #VaccinesForVotes scandal: in addition to every county commissioner getting 100 vaccine slots each to control, @MayorDaniella got 1,300 for herself, then her office lied about it #BecauseMiami
Miami-Dade @MayorDaniella has been trying to (falsely) distance herself from the misguided plan that she endorsed on Friday just before it turned into a PR disaster as it was rejected by some commissioners amid claims of corruption, cronyism and pay-to-play politics #BecauseMiami
After giving 2,600 COVID-19 vaccine slots to @MayorDaniella and county commissioners to dole out to supporters, @JacksonHealth’s twisted game continued tonight: they tweeted a 15 minute warning for appointments then filled them all in 1 minute. #BecauseMiami #VaccinesForVotes
