Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day. She has become the fourth vote on the commission by simply taking away the mayor’s veto power, which has ended up in court.īut people are wrong about this and Suarez is right. Baby X may have fueled those fears when he vetoed the settlement, which City Attorney Victoria Mendez said was yet another illegal veto. As expected and predicted on this very space not long ago, Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla has already delivered to at least two of the investors, er, contributors who bankrolled his return to office when he helped seal a settlement deal last month for the Magic City Casino, who had sued the city so they can build a jai-a-lai fronton and card room in Edgewater.Īnd bonus: He also gets to help other VIP donors like Genting as well as his Tallahassee benefactor, Senate President Bill Galvano, who is the state’s friendliest gambling legislator trying to expand gaming and got to swear DLP in after he was elected.Įverybody who thinks that Mayor Francis Suarez sold out to auto mogul Norman Braman for a measly $75,000 just because Braman’s attorney wrote the legislation and the back-up materials for it, including staff opinion, is cray cray.
