Commissioners, Kirk, Ariel and Melissa, make the rules favoring themselves...NOT the RESIDENTS.
3-2 Vote, they get whatever they want. put their minds together and there we have it. Problem they can't think by themselves, mostly making the wrong decisions for the City Beautiful...
Caos, circus like meetings, started 2 years ago.
April election where most voting residents do not vote, some do not even know there is an election in April in Coral Gables.....
Those 3 voted to keep elections in April, not moving April elections to November where most people vote .(Disenfranchising some residents.)
To Restore Order and Bring Back Civility, please vote for me, Richard Lara for Coral Gables Commissioner, Group 3 on April 8. My email is info@laraforcoralgables.com for any questions, ideas, requests for yard signs, updates on meet and greets, etc.
I keep reading Aesops Gables to know what’s going on in Coral Gables and find it childish is it’s language and unproductive. I’d like to see you all dialogue with your commission in good faith about your concerns without all the petty stone throwing which hasn’t changed my point of view at all, but rather has confirmed my feeling that we need a change from the current mayor camp.
With all due respect, I believe you are misreading both Aesop and the commission.
Aesop represents one point of view and does it both incisively and entertainingly. I've recommended it by saying even if I lived in Dubuque, I'd read it just for the sheer mastery of polemics.
If Aesop is childish as to style, I think you'd have to agree that Aesop is a very gifted child, but on matters of taste we can disagree.
As to substance, it is beyond dispute that no other news source, the Herald, Cordito, or the Insider, delves deeper into the machinations of the commission. The fact is that only Aesop exposed the emails which destroyed the arguments behind the firing of Manager Iglesias. And if the Herald, Cortadito, or the Insider covered the rejection by the insurgents of the mayor's proposal for a very modest tax break to homeowners, I must have missed it.
As to stone throwing, when a commissioner, and not just any commissioner but the ringleader of the faction that is calling the shots in our city, uses a legal action to pry money from a critic who filed an ethics complaint, I'd say that is a fairly egregious case of stone throwing, or to use another analogy, punching down. Far from unproductive, the story behind the filing of this action illuminates the viciousness and vindictiveness of a City Hall powerhouse.
All that said, neither Aesop, the Herald, Cortadito, nor the Insider should determine how we vote. It is up to us to educate ourselves as to the merits of the various candidates. For myself, it comes down to the following issues:
1. The handling of the city manager's appointment.
2. The doubling of salaries and benefits.
3. The choice to maintain the current election dates.
4. Millage rates.
5. Preferential treatment for certain city tenants.
Nothing says “residents first” like a lawsuit from your loyal city commissioner! Lord Farquaad is angry, isn't he!
Well said!
I agree with you, Leslie. Very well said.
Amos was not hired...HE was APPOINTED by KFC.
Commissioners, Kirk, Ariel and Melissa, make the rules favoring themselves...NOT the RESIDENTS.
3-2 Vote, they get whatever they want. put their minds together and there we have it. Problem they can't think by themselves, mostly making the wrong decisions for the City Beautiful...
Caos, circus like meetings, started 2 years ago.
April election where most voting residents do not vote, some do not even know there is an election in April in Coral Gables.....
Those 3 voted to keep elections in April, not moving April elections to November where most people vote .(Disenfranchising some residents.)
To Restore Order and Bring Back Civility, please vote for me, Richard Lara for Coral Gables Commissioner, Group 3 on April 8. My email is info@laraforcoralgables.com for any questions, ideas, requests for yard signs, updates on meet and greets, etc.
Let’s get back to work! Thanks, Richard
@laraforcoralgables
I keep reading Aesops Gables to know what’s going on in Coral Gables and find it childish is it’s language and unproductive. I’d like to see you all dialogue with your commission in good faith about your concerns without all the petty stone throwing which hasn’t changed my point of view at all, but rather has confirmed my feeling that we need a change from the current mayor camp.
With all due respect, I believe you are misreading both Aesop and the commission.
Aesop represents one point of view and does it both incisively and entertainingly. I've recommended it by saying even if I lived in Dubuque, I'd read it just for the sheer mastery of polemics.
If Aesop is childish as to style, I think you'd have to agree that Aesop is a very gifted child, but on matters of taste we can disagree.
As to substance, it is beyond dispute that no other news source, the Herald, Cordito, or the Insider, delves deeper into the machinations of the commission. The fact is that only Aesop exposed the emails which destroyed the arguments behind the firing of Manager Iglesias. And if the Herald, Cortadito, or the Insider covered the rejection by the insurgents of the mayor's proposal for a very modest tax break to homeowners, I must have missed it.
As to stone throwing, when a commissioner, and not just any commissioner but the ringleader of the faction that is calling the shots in our city, uses a legal action to pry money from a critic who filed an ethics complaint, I'd say that is a fairly egregious case of stone throwing, or to use another analogy, punching down. Far from unproductive, the story behind the filing of this action illuminates the viciousness and vindictiveness of a City Hall powerhouse.
All that said, neither Aesop, the Herald, Cortadito, nor the Insider should determine how we vote. It is up to us to educate ourselves as to the merits of the various candidates. For myself, it comes down to the following issues:
1. The handling of the city manager's appointment.
2. The doubling of salaries and benefits.
3. The choice to maintain the current election dates.
4. Millage rates.
5. Preferential treatment for certain city tenants.