[SoFloFreeper]

Florida news.

For those not following, Carlos Alvarez, the mayor of Miami-Dade County (not to be confused with the mayor of the CITY of Miami Thomas Regaldo):

committed millions in taxpayer money to the Florida Marlins new stadium—but the Marlins are MAKING MONEY...

approved raises for county government employees—some were in his own inner circle—as high as 50%...

raised the property tax rates on homes in Miami-Dade county, while property VALUES in Miami-Dade county have been going DOWN DOWN DOWN due to the real estate bust....

the people have had ENOUGH of expanding government—on EVERY level!

[TigersEye]

I have never heard of a county mayor. I wonder how common that is?

[Hardastarboard]

I'm sure that if the media calls the Tea Party ignorant racists often enough, they'll quit out of shame and let things go back to they way they used to be, best expressed by a FReeper tag line I saw the other day:

Democrats = Death of the American Republic; Republicans = lingering death of the American Republic.