Ken Russell
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139 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Sep
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The question is, who's willing to enforce it beyond? I did my job as a commissioner to get the votes where they should be and get the public benefits where they should be. But at some point, we should be able to trust that the legal process happens correctly, that the administrative process happens correctly.
Even I never expected them simply to violate the vote of the commission. It wasn't a promise. It wasn't a handshake. It was it was a vote of the commission. So it's not something they can just undo. But they are. And it's illegal.
At this very lectern seven years ago, David Beckham stood and made the promise to us and the city. He said, I am doing this for your children and your children's children. And his development partners made the promise to us, which resulted in legislation, which was our promise to the city. And the mayor signed that legislation, which created a lease.
And part of that promise is for the land that was going to be taken up. the green space that would disappear for the stadium, we would find, rezone, and fund new parks throughout the city. We identified those four parks, and they are in districts throughout. And we rezoned those parks and we funded it with half of the $20 million contribution.
This is an additional $10 million to the Moss family and their development group because this actually defunds one of the new parks that would be going into District 1. And the money that they are going to use to build up that park is already meant to be spent by them. Miami has a history.
of recalling mayors who make bad decisions on sporting deals mayor suarez has been a friend of mine for over 10 years but if the promise of this deal is broken i will be the first signature on any recall effort for any elected official who tries to break the promises of this deal because it is my integrity is your integrity because you carry the promises of commission's past
Yeah, I hadn't decided myself at that point. But was that it? So, no. I mean, I'm looking at what are the possible remedies for this issue. A recall won't fix the issue, but it'll try to hold punitive those who are voting for it that day. And four out of five of them voted for it that day based on the lies Francis told them and the money that he handed out.
He literally handed out taxpayer money to them to get them to vote for this issue, which now violates the ballot language as well. Because this project of those new parks are part of this project are now being taxpayer funded. Well, the mayor argued that the ballot language was deliberately...
very difficult order to be but it was big nobody but that part the ballot language was very specific and those were words i put in there to make sure the new green space would get funded listen we can go back and forth all day basically they are lying now to undo the benefits that were gained back then because it's making it more expensive for the moss family and that's the that's the disservice being done
That's not the only reason I'm running for office as mayor. That's literally what pissed me off enough to put on a jacket and walk back to City Hall where I hadn't been for two years to say the corruption level has gotten so low. The other things they're undoing or even other ordinances that I passed having to do with protections of trees and they're undoing recycling in the city of Miami.
They're trying to write themselves lifetime pensions. These are all things that... need to be addressed in a systemic way. It's not about putting one person in to replace the other. It's about breaking the entire wheel of what's going on right now there.
My barber died.
The first time I explored it, and I didn't run. I actually did not resign to run, and I didn't file at the end. So, no, I didn't.
Manolo Reyes now voted in favor of defunding these parks, the public benefit parks. He voted for Mel Reese this last month.
No, he didn't have nothing to gain. He has no idea what he voted for last month. He really believes that he voted for it. He said, we never even voted on those public benefits. We just talked about it. Oh, that's bullshit. That's a lie. We voted hard. And so he just took an extra $2.5 million for his district, which a commissioner can assign themselves anyway. That's not for the mayor to dole out.
So he gained nothing, but he actually solidified the bad decision of Mel Reese now in the end after 10 years of voting against it. I voted for it after getting the concessions that I needed in 2018. I was reelected overwhelmingly in 2019. No runoff, multiple candidates, double-digit win. My first race— Promised you wouldn't run for higher office and then ran for higher office.
And so in the last 10 months of my second term, after eight years in office, yeah, I decided to run for Congress. Seven years. I was quite frustrated. No, yeah, out of the full eight years, I left in the last 10 months. So, yes, I did run for Congress. If that's a sin for someone to go for higher office, then I'm guilty. But as far as the Mel Rees curse, that has yet to be written yet.
We're going to see how voters feel about that, because whether you believe they understood it or not, voters wanted soccer to come. There's a stadium that's halfway built now. Messi's in town. Beckham's here. There is an excitement about that. Messi will never play in that stadium. Probably right. But it's supposed to be done by next year.
And they're not allowed to get their CO until they finish those new parks. Over 100 acres of new parks. Do you think that's going to happen? First of all, they're slapping this thing up.
No, I think voters will decide. No, not about the administration, but I think voters will decide how important this is to them. I think it should be very important if they cheat on the deal. But as far as the original deal goes that was struck and memorialized, that's for the voters to decide whether that was correct or not. And personally...
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