Chapter 1: What chaos unfolded at the Miami mayoral forum?
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Chapter 2: How did the candidates perform during the debates?
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Miami Beach mayor and accused serial sex pest Stephen Miner is running for re-election. Hashtag because Miami. Beach. In fact, voting is underway. Absentee ballots or the vote by mail ballots have already arrived. Oh, we're still doing those, huh? That election day, for now, that election day is Tuesday, November 4th. You will find out more than you...
really ever wanted to know about Stephen Miner and the horrendous allegations against him later on in the show. But first, that election day, it's not just in Miami Beach, it's also in the great free city of Because Miami. And as you know, the mayor's race is now a complete clown car. It is full. 13 people, 13 candidates have qualified to run because, of course, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez...
is regrettably term limited if you put garbage in you're going to get garbage out and now we have to elect a new mayor and some new commissioners in the city of miami this was of course the election that was nearly cancelled until miami mayoral candidate and former city manager emilio gonzalez sued the city and got the election reinstated now roy there has been these mayoral forums debates whatever you want to call them
And dude, they have been outright cockfights. I mean, absolutely. The fighting with cocks? Just absolutely classic. And we put some highlights together so everybody can live vicariously through the experience that is a third world election here in South Florida. One of the funny things is that some of these guys are like right out of the antique shop here in Miami.
I mean, you've got Xavier Suarez, who was the first Cuban mayor ever elected to the city of Miami in 1985. And of course, he is the father of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. Definitely. And so you have Joe Carollo, who you know and love. Yeah, I don't know about love.
As well as Alex Diaz La Portilla, the former commissioner who was removed from office by Mayor Ron DeSantis after he was arrested for money laundering and bribery, among other charges, charges that were dropped 14 months later, and he was exonerated. And, of course, you have former city commissioner Ken Russell, who we've had on the program.
And what was incredible about this is that when we first started this show years ago, Ken Russell was the chairman of the Miami City Commission. And he would sit there between Joe Carollo to his right. Alex Diaz-Laportilla to his left. And these two guys would kick the shit out of Ken Russell for just hours on end. It was absolutely hilarious and pathetic to watch.
And we got that all over again at this last Miami mayoral debate. Something called candidate forums. It was a debate. It was a cockfight. And I want to give you a little taste of what it was like. hearing from Ken Russell, Alex Diaz-Laportilla, who seemed like he was high on life. He seemed buzzed. And then Joe Carollo, it was like Weekend at Bernie's with Joe Carollo.
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Chapter 3: What allegations surround Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Miner?
All the charges were dropped. You were one of the co-conspirators. You perjured yourself. That's why you're part of the lawsuit that I'm filing. You were a liar. I remember that lawsuit very well on Watson Island because you voted together with me on it.
I was not in the commission then, sir. You were. No, I was not in the commission then.
Yes, you were. I think...
You said in our shade meeting that they have to be held accountable because the department was enabling their malfeasance. No, Xavier Suarez, I need to move this. I never said anyone by name, thank you very much. No, but Xavier, she made a reference to me. I did not. It feels if you say the word corruption, he gets a rebuttal.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You throw out buzzwords like corruption and transparency, and this is a corruption guy, anti-corruption, anti-transparency. You know what happens? Those are buzzwords. Prove one thing that's corrupt about me. Do you have any evidence?
What a show, dude. What a show. DLP was in rare form. I will admit, Ken Russell, I think he kind of, if you had to score the debate, I think he won it. He had to. He had no choice, probably. He won on the card. He gave a very good performance.
That montage isn't necessarily indicative of it, but he did have two of the best lines of the night that you heard there, which were, yes, I left early, but I didn't leave in handcuffs like you did. And the second one was every time someone mentions corruption, he gets a rebuttal.
It was very, very funny and fun in the room, as you heard from the reaction of the audience of the peanut gallery there. And Diaz La Portilla came up to me in the lobby and said he wants to come on the podcast. I've been invited.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the mayoral candidates' pasts?
Joe Carollo comes in for eight years, two consecutive four-year terms. And now who's running for Joe's seat? Frank Correia. Of course. So this idea that there's no dynasties. You have Diaz-LaPortilla. You have three Diaz-LaPortilla brothers. You have multiple Diaz-Balart brothers. You have multiple Suarez's multigenerational. You have multiple Regalados, multiple Hardemans. I mean, like, come on.
But he denies that. He's like, oh, no, no. We have elections. We have elections where you elect the same family and the same last name over and over and over again. But that's not a dynasty. That's a democracy. Horseshit. Because they get a stranglehold. That's what happens here. And Joe Carollo, I mean, come on, man. Come on, man.
This guy and this guy's out here picking fights with everybody, including Emilio Gonzalez. And he has the audacity to go after Emilio Gonzalez for how he's paying his attorney's fees. Can you imagine Joe Carollo decides that the hill he wants to fight on?
And the moral authority he wants is who's paying for his attorney's fees when the taxpayers of Miami have spent over $20 million and counting on his personal attorney's fees in these corruption cases. But listen to this. But for me, we wouldn't be in this room because I had to sue the city of Miami to have the election that we're all competing in.
We have a problem with corruption, massive.
It isn't even individual corruption, it's now a cultural corruption. We should have transparency since that's the other cliche word that's used so much in this campaign.
Where did the hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the attorneys to file this lawsuit come from?
Did it come from the half million in Mission Miami PAC?
that comes from a New York investment firm.
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Chapter 5: How is the concept of political dynasties discussed in Miami?
Poor Joe. That crooked-ass jacket. Pobrecito, little Joe. Little Billy Corbin. So, and his crooked-ass jacket. Everything about him is crooked, dude, including that jacket. But Xavier Suarez, dude. Xavier Suarez arrived to this debate in a DeLorean with a flux capacitor. Okay? Directly from 1985. Listen to this.
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.
I mean, he talked about every year except 2025. It was a 1985, 1992, 2002. Of course, doesn't want to talk about his son Francis Suarez's record. Mr. Mayor, you're brilliant. You were super smart. Because everybody knows he's a... If you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.
And speaking of learning from history, only in Miami do you have candidates who is the mayor like, you know, 40 years ago saying shit like this.
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.
You've got three commissioners that are under indictment. You've got... Wait a minute. Only one city of Miami commissioner. The other ones are... I'm sorry.
One commissioner, the city manager, and the chief financial officer.
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.
I was the sheriff. But that certainly doesn't sound like the mayor's closest political ally, City Commissioner Humberto Hernandez.
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Chapter 6: What controversies arose during the election process?
They were surprised.
Well, I'd let them know who was the one that was spreading it out so they'd know who from inside was saying it.
Does anybody have any idea what the hell he was just saying? No. You know what part of it, Roy, reminded me? Joe Carollo, like, out there, it was so pathetic. He just was just babbling on incoherently. He kept going, Elliot Rodriguez from CBS Miami. He was the moderator, and I thought he did a good job because it's like...
How do you referee a cockfight without putting those gloves on and grabbing the roosters by the neck, you know, and separating them? I thought he did a very good job. But Joe would just keep talking. And Elliott had to keep like was forced to like jump in and stop him. Go time. Like we're on a time. There's like six candidates up here. Everybody needs to talk. You know what it reminded me of?
It reminded me of when Jeff Loria and David Sampson carted out Muhammad Ali. to sort of kind of not really throw out the first pitch, the actual opening day of opening day of Marlins Park, which I think is probably one of the most notorious and saddest days in the history of professional sports. I mean, like literally carted him out there.
That's what it reminded me of with Joe Carollo, but not quite as sad. No child left behind tutoring for children. Time, Joe. reinvested in more buildings that we built so people could have their own and own their own house. Time's up. Paying for that also.
Thank you, Joe. In December, when nobody goes out. So what have we accomplished? Joe, your time's up. And the effect that it's had on them. They don't want to leave the streets.
Would he have any sewer? Which was a lie. He was right next door. Besides being mayor. And if he were mayor, they wouldn't hire him for that. Secondly, of all, Joe, Joe, I need to get... Let him show or not.
Okay, time's up. Thank you.
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Chapter 7: How did the candidates address corruption in Miami?
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Chapter 8: What is the current status of the election and its candidates?
Yes.
I don't know. I'm... Listen, give me a throwback to the 80s and the 90s and I'm there. I'll give it a chance. It's all we're doing now is rebooting old stuff. That's all we're doing because we're the only people consuming content. Unless we're stealing from England. Yes, formats. We'll do formats. But I just feel like...
We're the only people who are consuming legacy media content, people of a particular generation. New generations don't necessarily have those relationships outside of maybe Disney classics that we then kind of dragged our kids into. But other than that, this is what people want, more of the same, a connection to your childhood and your past. Like the redoing of The Lion King.
The world burns around you. That was a bummer. I mean, you can't see the emotion on the lion's face in this reboot. I find that uncanny valley on the CG animals talking, that creeps me out a bit. I can't do that. I can't. And also, it's just another animated movie. It's not a live action remake of The Lion King. It's just another cartoon of The Lion King. Yeah. I don't really get it.
It creeps me out a little bit. I do want to do some updates, though, because believe it or not, we do cover some important shit here on the program. We do. And it comes around again. I don't know if you remember, we interviewed Marvin Dunn about the Donald Trump Presidential Library right next door here. Yeah, two weeks ago.
By the way, something that I'm ā we're a tourism town, and if you want to open a tourist attraction here, I don't really care what it is. I'm fine with a Trump library, presidential library, hotel, casino, whatever the hell it is, being built over here. The problem is, is the real estate hustle. The problem is, is that they gifted him this ā
Upwards of 350 million dollar piece of land owned by this public university, this public college. Turns out I'm not alone in that feeling. A poll by Bendixson Amandi and reported here in Florida politics shows that a whopping 74 percent. of Miami-Dade respondents say that this 2.6 acre parcel targeted for this Trump facility should instead stay with the college for possible expansion.
Just 14% said the state should take the land and gift it to Trump. Naturally, Republicans are warmer to the idea with 59 percent supporting a Trump library on the state acquired Miami-Dade College land compared to 29 percent who oppose it. Whereas you have 94 percent of Democrats against the plan. But here's the thing. Sixty nine percent of third party and no party voters feel the same.
This is not a winning issue. It's barely even a winning issue amongst Republicans in Miami-Dade County. That was a very surprising poll to see, honestly.
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