Republicans claim to be a party of good old Christian values. They take photo-ops at church, post prayer psalms on Twitter, install unqualified Christian moonbats to run the Department of Education (See: DeVos Betsy), and quote Jesus in public whenever it’s convenient. But despite the fact that Jesus spent about…
Complying with Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants doesn’t seem to trouble Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez much. He’s spent the weeks since his January 26 order — which declared that his county will not act as a “sanctuary” to immigrants — by smearing his local opposition and spreading Trumpian falsehoods on the radio.
Marco Rubio’s campaign-trail promises of being a strong foil to Donald Trump already felt like pulp fiction thanks to his 100 percent voting record for the president’s appointees and plans. Now they’re beginning to look as sordid as the latest Fifty Shades edition.
This morning, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine crossed Biscayne Bay and drove to WLRN public radio’s studios in Doral. He spoke to listeners about why his city had passed a resolution urging Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez to reverse an earlier decision — and make the county a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren stepped to the Senate floor last night with a simple plan: Reading a letter by civil rights icon Coretta Scott King that criticized Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. Given Sessions’ incendiary record on racial justice, King’s opinion was quite relevant to the debate on whether Sessions should…
Remember over the summer when Marco Rubio waxed eloquent about how he and his fellow U.S. senators would be a strong “check and balance” on Donald Trump? Hahahaha! That was a funny one, Marco. Rubio now has a sterling 100 percent voting record backing all of President Trump’s nominees and plans…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to honor President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants could affect more than 1,000 people this year, according to a Miami Herald analysis. But if you’re upset about that, you’ll have to try and reach the mayor via mail. His office is now refusing…
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez has argued his decision to bow to President Donald Trump’s bellicose order banning so-called sanctuary cities — which refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to deport undocumented people — was purely financial. Trump threatened to pull federal funding from cities that refuse to comply, and Gimenez says Miami-Dade could lose up to $355 million.
Have you seen the latest issue of Der Spiegel? That’s normally an odd question in Miami, which is not exactly bursting with subscriptions to Germany’s favorite weekly news magazine. But thanks to a brutal cover illustration of Donald Trump holding holding the bloodied, severed head of Lady Liberty, everyone is talking about this week’s edition.
Carlos Gimenez, the mayor of Miami-Dade County, is a man so boring he might actually just be a pile of wood pulp with googly eyes stuck to the sides. So it’s somewhat surprising to see pro-immigration activists marching through the streets of Miami, chanting, “Shame on you!” at the mayor,…
Remember way back in November when your most insufferable Facebook friends were insisting there was zero difference between Trump and Clinton? Besides, they cynically insisted, Trump would never do all of that crazy stuff he kept promising! Who cares whom you vote for?
Fair-pay rights for the people who build houses, install piping, or wire electrical circuits have been slowly but surely crippled over the past 50 years. Unions have been broken, worker protections have been destroyed, and formerly blue-voting laborers have increasingly turned to people like Donald Trump to ensure their messages are heard instead of supporting a Democratic Party that has become blind to their economic struggles.
Donald Trump’s travel ban last week was directed at seven majority-Muslim countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Sudan. Trinidad, which sits seven miles off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean, is nowhere near any of those nations. That fact, however, apparently did not stop border patrol agents…
The civic, political, and intellectual weight of yesterday’s protest against Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez was huge. Political players like Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez and Florida’s American Civil Liberties Union Director Howard Simon turned up to speak in front of roughly 300 demonstrators. But the most poignant moment…
Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who is Fidel Castro’s nephew by marriage, has never been afraid to make ridiculous claims about his uncle’s regime. In 2009, Diaz-Balart actually argued that people who want to end the Cuban embargo are just like Nazi sympathizers. (They aren’t.) Yesterday, Diaz-Balart made yet another factually dubious Cuba-related statement…
On Friday, the morning after Mayor Carlos Gimenez kowtowed to Donald Trump’s demand that Miami stop protecting undocumented immigrants, a crowd descended on County Hall to protest. That’s a pretty normal occurrence in America, where residents have the right to tell their elected leaders they’re wrong. What the crowd found…
Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is ardently pro-life. He’s spoken before the Florida Family Policy Council, a pro “human life” (read: anti-abortion) advocacy group, and earlier this month expressed public support for the anti-abortion “March for Life” in Washington, D.C. But Corcoran’s concern for human life…
More than six million people follow DJ Khaled’s insanely popular Snapchat account. But this past weekend, as many of his celebrity peers spoke out against Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, Khaled seemingly tiptoed around the divisive issue, simply posting a video of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an order threatening federal funding to “sanctuary cities” that won’t fully comply with his immigration crackdown. It took less than 24 hours for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to crumble.
Marco Rubio is less a U.S. senator than a wide-eyed college freshman, lost in the gleaming halls of his institution, deeply curious but frankly very confused and a little frightened by his ignorance. Sure, the people of Florida elected him based on his promise to serve as a brake on…
By 3:30 p.m. Sunday, three Miami-Dade County Police wagons were parked outside Departure Gate 9 at Miami International Airport. A battalion of county cops stood elbow-to-elbow in the middle of the street, at least one clad in a K-9 Unit vest. Multiple times, the cops had threatened to arrest members of the more than 300-person crowd that had gathered at MIA to protest President Trump’s Muslim-travel ban.
To initiate a recall vote in Miami-Dade County, one must first send a proposal to the county clerk, who must, according to county law, make sure your legal petition is up to snuff, legally speaking. You’re free to try to recall any elected official in Miami, from the county property appraiser to anyone on the county commission to — oh, just for the sake of argument — the county mayor himself.
