Another bad habit that seems to have started occurring since Colonel Klink has become the City Manager is his use of social media to promote specific businesses, like restaurants he eats at.

If he was doing this as a private citizen, there would be no problem, but he's doing this on what is clearly his City Manager Twitter page, and with the imprimatur of his official position.

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Yesterday, Circuit Court Judge Alan Fine, "struck down the (recall) petitions as illegal in violation of clear Florida law."

This should not be considered a surprise, because from the very beginning this recall effort was destined to fail.

To refresh everyone's mind, the idea for a recall petition came into the fevered brain of local democratic political operative Juan Cuba after he and Joe Carollo exchanged words at a city commission meeting, and Carollo with his usual flair for vitriol, called Cuba a bunch of names which caused Cuba to go off in a snit and declare that he was going to initiate a recall.

The only problem was that Cuba didn't live in Carollo's district.

That was the first problem.

The second problem was that the recall petition was a mishmash of issues including the various code violation fights that Carollo had been waging with Bill Fuller, the owner of the Little Havana Bar Ball and Chain and other bullshit that should have never seen the light of day.  

The third problem was that Cuba didn't have any money to finance this recall effort, and when you add the fact that he didn't live in the district, it should have dawned on former City Manager and multimillionaire Joe Arriola, who for his own reasons decided to jump into the fight and annouce that he would put up the money to finance the recall effort - he supposedly spent $100,000 to pay for the initial petition signature being collected - that maybe instead of jumping headlong into the fight the way he did, he should have considered starting from scratch by having a petition written and reviewed by his attorneys that made more sense, along with making sure that the people behind the scene did everything by the book.

He didn't.

And so, the petition gathers were hired, they went out and collected the signatures, and instead of making absolutely sure that they covered their asses by submitting the petitions within the written and stipulated timeline, they got cute, and instead of submitting the petitions by 5 PM on the 30th day, as the law required, they emailed them in over the weekend.

It was a case of stupid is as stupid does.

Even then, when the petitions were challenged, Arriola and his lawyers could have made a decision that instead of trying to fight a long, protracted legal battle, they could have just jettisoned the petitions, formed a new committee, written a new recall petition, and just done it all over again the right way.

That was too easy for everyone involved, because by then everybody involved was determined to show everyone else how big their balls were, and so after at least a half dozen court hearings, and countless wasted hours involved in bullshit, the press release below spells out the result.

Once again, the citizens of Miami got fucked, and Joe Arriola pissed away $100,000 that coulda, shoulda been spent on something more productive.

It's Miami, Bitches!