Ken Russell
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If he's got the votes for it, which I doubt, the commission will pass it. It'll go on the ballot, and the voters can choose. I think he's got the votes. I hope he does, because it's the right thing. I mean, if Knockwood Manolo returns. It's the right thing for Miami, as well as all of these amendments. And so if we can blow up the city, and not in the literal way that you would like to.
If he's got the votes for it, which I doubt, the commission will pass it. It'll go on the ballot, and the voters can choose. I think he's got the votes. I hope he does, because it's the right thing. I mean, if Knockwood Manolo returns. It's the right thing for Miami, as well as all of these amendments. And so if we can blow up the city, and not in the literal way that you would like to.
But literally break the... I would not like to blow up the city.
But literally break the... I would not like to blow up the city.
No, if we could break the wheel that keeps turning and these same families over and over keep getting elected, we can make a system that's attractive to better candidates, to better people who would otherwise never want to be a part of this corrupt system, who would rather be entrepreneurs or artists or whatever they want to do successfully in life that doesn't involve politics.
No, if we could break the wheel that keeps turning and these same families over and over keep getting elected, we can make a system that's attractive to better candidates, to better people who would otherwise never want to be a part of this corrupt system, who would rather be entrepreneurs or artists or whatever they want to do successfully in life that doesn't involve politics.
It's not meant to be a lifetime career. Come in, do your service, make the city better, and go back to what you're doing.
It's not meant to be a lifetime career. Come in, do your service, make the city better, and go back to what you're doing.
To undo it and actually won that vote. We were willing to actually force them to tear down those new buildings that they have finished constructing. You didn't have the votes for that. I did. I passed it.
To undo it and actually won that vote. We were willing to actually force them to tear down those new buildings that they have finished constructing. You didn't have the votes for that. I did. I passed it.
Yes. They undid it the next meeting. Right, so you didn't have the... No, it actually passed, and then whoever got to them and undid it. Are you saying it passed before it didn't pass?
Yes. They undid it the next meeting. Right, so you didn't have the... No, it actually passed, and then whoever got to them and undid it. Are you saying it passed before it didn't pass?
That will be what remains to be seen at the ballot box, because I don't believe that, and that's not what I'm hearing from constituents. And you pick these few things that make you a single-issue voter that you really care about that you disagree with me on.
That will be what remains to be seen at the ballot box, because I don't believe that, and that's not what I'm hearing from constituents. And you pick these few things that make you a single-issue voter that you really care about that you disagree with me on.
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Because Vicki Bendis gave the city administration a separate set of lawyers to represent them and work against the commission. We got sandbagged. I actually got the commission together, and we voted unanimously to knock out that Watson Island developer because they were in violation.
Because Vicki Bendis gave the city administration a separate set of lawyers to represent them and work against the commission. We got sandbagged. I actually got the commission together, and we voted unanimously to knock out that Watson Island developer because they were in violation.
But then when all of the administration, who was worried about their own jobs, they would realize they'd have to admit that they were complicit in allowing these permits to go beyond. They all got their own lawyers. This was another Tricky Vicky.
But then when all of the administration, who was worried about their own jobs, they would realize they'd have to admit that they were complicit in allowing these permits to go beyond. They all got their own lawyers. This was another Tricky Vicky.