Xavier Suarez
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Bullshit.
I'm not sure what you would call a situation where a son leaves office and then his father runs for the same seat.
We have a problem with corruption, massive.
First of all, Joe, I haven't paid my legal fees yet.
Secondly, I received a donation from a company that actually has no business.
It's my firm.
They do no business in Miami.
They do no business in the state of Florida.
And this is an embarrassment.
There is a reputational cost to the dysfunction that exists in the city of Miami today.
When I was elected mayor in 1985, in 1992, the whole thing started in 2002.
I was mayor 40 years ago.
There's a new sheriff in town, and it's the same as the old sheriff.
As soon as I left office after eight years of not a single criminal indictment against anybody on the commission, despite a few that may have come a little close.
Right?
The city manager and the chief financial officer, yes.
And those were all from prior administrations.
As soon as I left office, okay, all the hanky-panky began again, and there were, I don't know how many people ended up in the big house, but a city manager, commissioner, et cetera.
Now, Commissioner Hernandez has a legal problem which predates his public service.
How would you describe his legal problem?