Commission meeting agenda targets three critics
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago had a very good day Tuesday, when he got to retaliate against all three of his “enemies” in a span of eight hours. Let’s call it the L’Ego trifecta.
The city’s commission latest meeting Tuesday turned into another stop on the revenge tour Lago started after he won the April election and both his candidates won their commission seats, giving him a majority on the dais.
L’Ego and his Seguro Que Yes cohorts — the echo chamber that is Vice Mayor Rhonda Anderson and newly-elected Commissioner Richard Lara — were able to (1) censure Commissioner Melissa Castro, for having the gumption to seek a state attorney opinion on the election year change; (2) start the process of killing the non-profit War Memorial Youth Center Association, of which former Commissioner Kirk Menendez, who Lago beat with 55% of the vote, is the president; and (3) decided to ask for an independent investigation into anonymous accusations that Commissioner Ariel Fernandez used phishing and tracking in some polling during the election, both of which could be illegal.
Then he must have gone home to eat some kittens. Alive.
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Fernandez was absent because of a medical emergency, which gave Lago a free and clear field to attack him. Nobody was there to fight back. Only Castro, who took the day in stride and is obviously growing a thicker skin, voted against the investigation.
The investigation is supposed to center on the alleged use of a poll to capture and track voters, which was reported in an anonymous blog that everybody knows takes orders from Lago. Maybe the mayor even pays them like he used to pay Gables Insider. Fernandez has been accused of fraudulently misrepresenting himself and possibly obtaining personal information from respondents, as well as public records violations after he denied having anything to do with the organization that was polling.
There will be more to report on each of these things, which all deserve a closer look. There is also a budget meeting today in which commissioners are expected to pass a flat tax rate, which means an increase in taxes due to increased property values (more on that later). But looking at the whole of Tuesday’s meeting, it is clear that Lago is not over the election yet. Even though he won!
Maybe therapy would help?
Between the revenge items, the mansplaining by Lara, the gaslighting by Lago, and the free pass in monotone given to both by Anderson, it is getting increasingly harder to watch the Gables commission meetings. But Ladra does it for you, dear reader.
The people who elected Lago said they wanted the political theatrics to end. Instead, we just got a new leading star writing his own script and directing the special effects. Lago himself said at his swearing in that he was turning another page.
Is the book Hamlet?
Ladra will watch the meeting again to get all the salacious details of the Vince Lago revenge tour and anything else important that may have happened at the meeting. But this deserves hazard pay. Throw Ladra a bone for watching the meetings so you don’t have to with a contribution to Political Cortadito today.
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