Early voting starts tomorrow
Early voting for the November 3 elections starts tomorrow, October 26. The Grove location is City Hall (3500 Pan American Drive).
Hours are: Monday through Friday from 7 am to 7 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 1 pm. The following Monday, November 2, there is no early voting and the next day, Tuesday, November 3 is election day and of course the polls will be open all day then if you did not early vote.
Hours are: Monday through Friday from 7 am to 7 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 1 pm. The following Monday, November 2, there is no early voting and the next day, Tuesday, November 3 is election day and of course the polls will be open all day then if you did not early vote.
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26 Comments:
In what ways are the candidates significantly different? On what specific topics do they actually disagree? Will the Grove be better represented, for a change, at City Hall, with real short or long-term tangible results? Politics..
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With all those days and hours open there is no reason not to vote early.
Kudos to the people running the early voting!
Carlos, Joe Sanchez and Tomas Regalado are as different as day and night. Joe Sanchez is for smart growth, economic development, and improvement of quality of life through green initiatives like tree planting, bike lanes, community policing, active parks, affordable housing. In the District where he has been Commissioner for ten years Joe has already accomplished these things and would like to continue to do so in the City as a whole. Regalado is the voice of "no." He has expressed no ideas about progress or growth or bringing good jobs to Miami. He has said he will not implement our waterfront master plan. Before making a decision, take a look at Joe's website: www.joesanchez.com.
Regalado also has an underground lair and has made clones of himself.
Come on Michelle.
No economic development and killing the waterfront? He brought the President of the National historic trust to save the Marine Stadium.
As for District 4, I personally apologize for having my District built up to the nines. There is no open land aside from the parks..well there was. Until Regalado made them into parks (Robert King High)
Ah the green initiatives....you mean the Mayors Green Initiatives? Because he is the Mayor's appointee.
Give us a break.
Take a close look at District 4. Then look at District 3 and downtown. District 4: Virtually no improvements (not even the fire station that was promised for years); I challenge you to find some actual accomplishment in the time Regalado has been their Commissioner. District 3: Improvements in the form of revitalization of SW 8th Street, new parks, Jose Marti Gym, over 1,000 units of affordable housing built, thousands of trees planted, bike lanes, PLUS, Joe got the corruption out of the Bayfront Park Trust and DDA, and Miami's downtown is ten times more alive than when I worked there six years ago.
As for the waterfront, ask Regalado. He voted against our Coconut Grove Waterfront Master Plan when it was before the Commission and has stated at least twice in my presence that he thinks the plan should be "revisited." This is a plan that was created with hundreds of hours of resident and stakeholder involvement, which reflects what we want on our waterfront. Mark my words: if Regalado is elected and that plan is set aside, the Expo Center site will be sold or leased or "management agreemented" out from under us as soon as they can get Burn Notice out of there. The waterfront plan protects us from the kind of development the Grove does not want on our waterfront.
We forget that bananas were thrown on the lawn at City Hall before Manny Diaz was Mayor. Regalado was part of that crowd and will bring back people who also were.
Oh you mean the fire station on the CHURCH.
Miami Parking Authority wanted to handle that whole fiasco with parking. As you can imagine the residents and the Church did not.
It has been a process with the residents, the Church and the Fire Fighters.
I wish he would be more like Manny and Joe and just shove it down our throats.
Regalado wins over 90% in his district every term.
So the Waterfront master plan...your against him because hes against it? Kinda childish
Bananas were not thrown at City Hall when Manny was around was because no one could afford Bananas
Anon 10:24, I have lots of reasons to be FOR Joe Sanchez to be our next Mayor. I have not been able to come up with any reasons to be FOR Regalado. I am voting and campaigning FOR someone whose accomplishments and goals are consistent with my own values and hopes for our City.
I am also FOR the implementation of the waterfront master plan, for which I fought with a great group of Coconut Grove residents for meaningful public input, fought Linda Haskins' attempts to fire the planners for refusing to use her ideas instead of the residents', and gave an enormous amount of my time over the course of four years. If you consider it childish to continue to work hard to accomplish something you have been working toward for the last four years, so be it.
It just seems that Joe Sanchez is not the candidate. He is simply "not Regalado"
He talks in sound bites and it seems that if you can build a nuclear reactor on bayshore and promise 1,000 jobs he would.
His entire campaign has been attacking, relentlessly I might add; Regalado.
Not a peep from the Regalado campaign. No anti-mailers. No commercials about special interest etc.
Even you yourself made fun of Regalado. You have made up your mind loooong ago. No matter what evidence I would propose to vote for Regalado you would refuse.
Anon 11:52, you are right, I did make up my mind a long time ago, after looking carefully at both candidates. I looked at what has been accomplished in each of their districts in their time in office; I looked at the fact you can see the change when you cross the district line; I looked at the abomination that is the Home Depot in Regalado's district which has never been reigned in to help the residents; I looked at the fact that Regalado does not support the waterfront plan; I looked at the fact that he says different things to different people depending on what he thinks they want to hear; I looked at the fact that the Mayor should be able to represent us internationally and Regalado is clearly not up to that task; and finally, I looked at the fact that looked me in the eye about a year ago and made me a promise which he broke after avoiding my phone calls and ducking my emails.
We as a community deserve what we choose to elect. I want vision, progress, tree canopy, parks, affordable housing. I want our City to be respected nationally and internationally, to be pedestrian and bike friendly and to have a great quality of life. That's why I will VOTE FOR JOE SANCHEZ and why I have been supporting his campaign.
The Home Depot on 8th has been there over 15 years. Before Regalado was there. And he used that abomination as a point for home depot in the Grove.
And I would argue that even though Regalado has an accent he is perfectly fit representing the City of Miami Internationally. He worked in the White House for years and sat down with World Leaders. He covered the UN and the Geneva Conventions all through the late 80's and 90's.
If you google search "Tomas Regalado Regan" Books come out with quotes and interviews from each.
Unless of course you want another photo-op Mayor. In that case well....
I think it's very nice that Regalado's failure was the best evidence to help us keep Home Depot in check in the Grove. He has had 14 years to work with Home Depot to get them to behave themselves in his District.
Failure? The problem with Home Depot is that its freaking huge and every contractor and their mother show up. Theres workers there too. Like at the Orange bowl site (for the past twenty years)
What can you do? It's illegal to do anything. The site was built.
You know what fine Michelle. Get the last word. Dont listen. But at least use different reasons.
Michelle, you changed this post into something awful. Because of you I changed my vote today to Regalado. Keep it up, you are doing a lot of damage for yourself and your candidate. I won't even vote you on Village council now.
Well, one hysterical candidate for Village Council didn't get my vote. Geez.
You make it sound as if Home Depot was the corrupt being. No...it was the people that was brought in by Home Depot. They are the ones that litter and cause the noise problems. I guess you are right though. If I was Regalado I would just tell Home Depot to stop bringing in the loud trucks that bring in the wood and moving materials they sell at the store. Yeah! Thats the spirit!
Im voting for Sanchez. I dont agree with him 100% on everything but I think he is the better candidate overall.
A lot of the problems at the SW 8th Street Home Depot could be avoided if laws were enforced: the labor pool loitering in the parking lot, the illegal parking on people's lawns, the littering. the carts deserted in people's yards. I may not agree with Marc Sarnoff on a lot of things, but I venture to say based on his responses to noise complaints and such that if a business in Coconut Grove treated its neighbors the way Home Depot on SW 8th Street does, he would have found a way to deal with it long before 14 years had passed.
These comments have gotten ugly. I was voting for Michelle but now I changed my mind. As for Mayor I think I like Pat Sessions.
Lol, Grape, you pretend to limit us to 100 words. I'm glad you don't because some people present some very reasoned analyses.
Maybe you should start limiting one individual's comments to responding to only 1/3 of the comments on any given thread. So on this one the woman with her fingernails on the chalkboard would be limited to, say, six comments. (That would ensure this person would not be able to respond to me or anyone for 4 more posts!, allowing for reasonable discourse.)
Sounds like a plan to me.
Fiscal responsibility. Joe Sanchez was the champion for the one-sided $3 mil bailout of the Marlins. Joe demanded the taxpayers pay 99% of all expenses and Tomas Regalado was opposed. Regalado always stated he liked baseball he was just opposed to the taxpayers paying 99% of all the expenses of the proposed stadium. Joe Sanchez made sure the taxpayers will be paying for that insane decision for the next 40 years.
You Regalado supporters are so short sided. You give Michelle a hard time over her views and keep crying about the same issue: Mercy Hospital, The Stadium and the home depot. That's all you care about when there's so much more to consider. Michelle is right..get out of your zip code and check out Regalados district you can't compare it to Sanchez. Now I understand why Regalado said at a debate that his biggest accomplishments in his district are the sidewalks he had built with an organization. The place looks like crap. On the other hand when they asked Sanchez the same question they had to cut him off. If Regalado couldn't accomplish more than that in his district what makes you think he'll do anything for the city? Give me a break guys...it's preety clear who the better choice is.
Joe Sanchez will make a better candidate after he gets a real job and after he spends 4 to 8 years in the private sector. No man with private sector experience would ever allow himself to get taken like Joe got taken by the Marlins. Miami cannot afford any more $3 bil losses.
What Miami can't afford is a man with no vision and no plans for this city and by the way, Michelle will make a great Village Council member.
Get a GRIP!
What Miami cant afford?!
Miami cant afford anything! We cant even afford our own POLICE!
Does the government really have to treat everyone like children and tell you
"no we save our money we put it in the bank and we DONT spend when we dont NEED to"
Miami is broke. The City of Miami is firing employees yet Joe Sanchez demanded the taxpayers divert over $3 bil of their tax dollars to the Marlins. Great vision Joe.
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