This makes the Marlins Park boondoggle look like amateur hour. Jeff Loria is a pickpocket compared to Jorge Mas — who‘s Goldfinger robbing Fort Knox. And it cements @FrancisSuarez, due to the size and value of public property involved, as the most corrupt mayor in Miami history.
It’s not a conspiracy, it’s very simple: just follow the money. Like most things in Miami, it’s a real estate scheme. A land grab of the city’s largest parcel with @MiamiMayor as a paid advocate for the developer. It’s no secret. This is how @FrancisSuarez makes a living.
The @MiamiMayor is paid as a lobbyist by the richest people in town to fight against the best interests of his constituents — in one of America’s poorest cities. And he claims his client list is confidential, so we can’t know all his conflicts of interest. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
@MiamiMayor The fact that Melreese is a toxic site is well known. I said last summer it was going to cost more to remediate than the $35 million Mas said he was willing to spend and that taxpayers would be left holding the bag (they now estimate at least $50 million). miaminewtimes.com/news/david-bec…
@MiamiMayor The city built the Grapeland water park at Melreese after millions in required remediation and Miami-Dade's DERM (Department of Environmental Resources Management) approved the rest of the property to be used as a golf course "in perpetuity." Why is this suddenly an issue now?
@MiamiMayor Mas did a traffic impact study last year that is still secret, yet @FrancisSuarez, essentially Mas's paid lobbyist, released this arsenic info on the same day he got it. Why? How does it serve their agenda to get a 99-year below market value lease on a public park? I’ll explain…
1. Expedite eviction of @firstteemiami, the charity that teaches golf to injured veterans and underprivileged youth, who currently leases the property.
2. Delay the city commission vote on the Mas lease.
@MiamiMayor@FrancisSuarez@firstteemiami Didn't mean to skip #1: once @MiamiMayor gets the golf charity out, he can compel commissioners to "partner" with Mas to "clean" the land using propaganda like this from @AdamHBeasley (local sports reporters love sports welfare cuz it's good for business)
@MiamiMayor@FrancisSuarez@firstteemiami@AdamHBeasley Mid-thread reminder: this is NOT about soccer or a stadium or cleaning up public parks. This is a massive multi-billion dollar real estate deal for a hotel, offices, retail, etc. That’s why @MiamiMayor was so quick to Bend Over for Beckham.
@MiamiMayor@FrancisSuarez@firstteemiami@AdamHBeasley Back to #2 Delay city commission vote until after elections: Willy Gort, a NO on Mas and Beckham's boondoggle, is being termed out of D1. Francis & Friends are looking to turn that open seat into a YES vote. D4's @Manolo4Miami is also a NO, but unchallenged and likely unbeatable.
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. #BecauseMiamimiamiherald.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. #BecauseMiamimiamiherald.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."
"@MDCPS refuses to allow high school students to attend — as they have since 2003 — Miami New Drama’s 20th-anniversary staging of @ncruzny's Pulitzer-winner ANNA IN THE TROPICS: 'My work has been staged around the world — and the only place it has been censored is in Iran.'"
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
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…
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