Ken Russell
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139 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Sep
Ken Russell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you for that benefit of the doubt. But Even in hindsight, I don't look at my intention as ludicrous. And I believe if we're scared of corruption, we'll never do anything big and we'll never get anything done. Good. But wouldn't that save the taxpayers a whole lot of money and heartache? I really believe that if they had held to the public benefit tenets that I was able to negotiate.
and they were honoring those today, and we'll get to that because you haven't gotten there yet, what's happening now to it, that it would have been a good deal. And I could leave that vote sleeping well at night and watching it come to fruition.
He's just a hater, bro. No, I thought you were very passionate on your position that Miami shouldn't get involved in stadium deals and that this was another Marlins Park deal. But I believed it wasn't Marlins Park, and in its form as it was heading to ballot and then heading to lease, it wasn't what it should be.
But I knew I had the leverage to demand not promises or handshakes or bro slaps, but actual amendments to legislation that would result in a better deal through public benefits. And I was able to get it. And so even for this last two years, and this is where we're gonna come to the present. Able to get it? You weren't able to get it.
No, no, no, no, no.
Well, you weren't reading the moment right. I'm going to walk you through it.
It's going to be a no.
How clear do I have to be? It's going to be a 3-2. It's going to be a 3-2.
If I may.
Hold on. Hold on.
I've been trying to be heard for the last hour and I continually get cut off. And deny. And I'd like to speak. The mayor said everything that Commissioner Russell asked for is not in here. If you think I'm going to let this whole project go just because I'm getting $5 million for a baywalk, I can find other ways to get $5 million for a baywalk. Of course.
You spoke earlier about congeniality on this dais. There is no congeniality on this dais. You spoke about trust on this dais. There is no trust on this dais. There is transaction. There's power, there's ego. I believe this project has a chance to be good for the city, but I won't let it go until I believe it is correct.
I'm to assume that the no net loss parks will get funded, but we have no guarantee here today that the no net loss parks will get funded.
And I have his word.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla, if I had a nickel for every time I trusted your word, I could fund this baywalk myself. Oh, Lord almighty. Oh, Lord almighty. Guys, guys.
No, that is a complete opposite version from the experience that I had up there. And let me walk you through it. Okay. Because I had a sheet of paper in front of me with all of my demands. And for those who are thinking during that moment where I'm saying I'm a no vote, They're like, aha, we've convinced Ken to be against this.
That was my moment of leverage to say I will be a no, and they had to believe it unless this entire list of things gets done. It was theater, but that was your leverage. You squandered your political capital. No, but then they thought, they really thought that they were going to go through the vote, and then I would just go along for whatever reason.
And I don't know why they thought I was going to vote yes in that moment. Because they were going to lie to you. But they hadn't even agreed at that point to anything on my list. Okay, they hadn't lied to you yet. Yeah, they hadn't lied to me yet.
So when they decided to break, I sat there because I didn't want the perception of what ended up happening that everyone goes back to their offices and deals are cut and everything. What I wanted and what I believe happened is once they realized that I'm a hard no and I don't give a shit, that I can walk away from this as it is, that they need to give me every one of those things.
And I believe the mayor went around to each office and whipped them and said, these votes have to happen for these amendments that Russell wants. I understand DLP likes to get whipped. I can't speak to that, but I could tell you his breath was whipping me on that day just then when he was yelling at me.
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