Former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez.
Posted on 03/16/2011 8:52:45 AM PDT by JOAT
MIAMI -- Mayor Carlos Alvarez was ousted Tuesday by voters angry over a property tax rate increase and salary raise for county employees in a county struggling to recover from the recession.
With 100 percent of precinct votes counted, 88 percent voted to oust the mayor, making Miami-Dade the most populous area, with more than 2.5 million people, ever to recall a local official. Just 12 percent of the 204,500 who cast ballots were in favor of allowing Alvarez to finish his second term, which ends in 2012.
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Yolanda Soler, 47, said she voted to recall the mayor.
"I think it's important that politicians know when the people are not with them," she said. "What he did didn't make any fiscal sense. I'm disappointed because I did trust him to do a better job."
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Former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez.
RINO for sure.
Didnt Miami Dade go heavily for Obama? I thought they wouldn’t mind increased taxes and more benefits to Public workers? At least that’s what we are being told in Wisconsin!
I’m not from FL, so what am I missing?
Good for Miami-Dade. This is exactly what needs to be done throughout the country where it is allowed.
The “rot” is not only in the federal government but in states, county, and city/town levels as well.
Nothing.
It's just another data point of the coming political fire storm. On the one hand the dependency class wants hand outs and on the other the productive class is at a breaking point.
The days of a free pass for failing to do the job one was elected to do are over.
Paging the weeping speaker of the US house....
Maybe this will cause Scott Brown, John McCain, Linsey Graham, Susan Collins and all the other RINOs to take notice.
Paging the weeping speaker of the US house....
That paunchy drunk is blowing a golden opportunity.
"The commission voted to raise the millage rate to pay for the rise in the salaries of county employees (including the mayor’s staff) and for police and firemen. People who saw the value of their properties decline by as much as 30% since 2008, were now seeing their property taxes rise. All the commissioners who voted “yes” to the rise are being subject to a recall vote. The petitions to recall them have been approved and court challenges by the mayor and commissioners have failed. The Mayor and this one commissioner were the first to be voted out. Others will follow in special elections to be held later. What the Herald also fails to mention is that this is fundamentally an anti-union vote, not an anti-Alvarez vote (even though he lost a lot of support after the tax millage rate rise.) The unions have come out en masse to support these two. They failed. The people won.
It is starting.
The days of a free pass for failing to do the job one was elected to do are over.
Yes, I would generally agree - but 88% in favor of recall must include some of the dependency class, no?
Or rather, is it just about power? Yes, the Democrats will use whatever theme can to kick the opposing party out of office, and I would expect that there were organized Democrats out voting for recall of the Republican. But when they take over, we won't hear much about deficits or anger of "financial mismanagement" will we?
Sure. But even a parasite recognizes the need to keep the host alive.
Well, usually.
"Dick" Lugar, Orrin Hatch, and Olympia Snowe, along with Scott Brown, better be paying attention. All those RINOs are up for re-election next year.
If a dem infested city like Miami can throw the bums out, you know the rest of the country is ready.
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