We figured Bovo the Clown had bigger political aspirations when he took Pepe Diaz's prime ass kissing spot

Wow what a shock, Esteban Bovo is trying to climb the political ladder. Looks like Pepe Le Pew Diaz needs to step up his game.

http://www.politicalcortadito.com/2018/05/02/double-agent-lobbyist-ron-book-gets-county-reprieve-mayoral-wannabe/

‘Double agent’ lobbyist Ron Book gets county reprieve from mayoral wannabe
By Ladra on May 2, 2018

Lobbyist Ron Book, who secretly worked against the Miami-Dade Commission during the last session in Tallahassee — even though we pay him to work for us — by sneaking puppy mill language into not one but two failed legislative bills, could have lost his juicy contract Tuesday to lobby for the county in Tallahassee because he didn’t request a waiver as required. See? Lobbyists are allowed to work against taxpayers on an issue, as long as they get a waiver from the county first.

Even if that did make any sense at all, it seems like Book would rather pedir perdon que pedir permiso. He did not seek a waiver when he worked for the Petland chain of stores this past session and against any municipality’s ability to regulate the sale of puppies from puppy mill breeders that put profits before the animals’ welfare and needs. Aventura, Margate and Hollywood all have local ordinances banning puppy mill sales that would immediately be null and void. Miami-Dade doesn’t have one — yet, because Ladra was told that one of the commissioners is writing an ordinance as you read this.

Read related: Animal activists beat Ron Book, squash 2 puppy mill bills in Tallahassee

A rule is a rule. And other lobbyists have been let go because of conflicting interests, most recently Ballard Partners because of their representation of Uber in Tallahassee while the ride sharing company was still hammering out regulation details in the 305. Several speakers urged the commission to deny Book a waiver after the fact.

“Mr. Book has acted as some sort of double agent getting money from both sides of an issue. Usually double agents work in secret with opposing sides,” said Michael Rosenberg, co-founder of the Pets’ Trust Miami, an initiative that passed a non-binding referendum in 2012 to fund a massive low-cost spay and neuter operation throughout the county.

“Mr. Book found a willing legislator to insert a few sentences hidden in a bill of over a hundred pages, whereby tangible property sold in stores would be beyond the control of the county. The tangible property was really describing dogs and cats because the client Mr. Book represents was also paying him to make sure Dade County commissioners and commissioners across the state could not restrict animal sales in retail stores in their communities,” Rosenberg said, adding that Book should not only NOT be given a waiver but should also have to make up for his lapse in judgement by working on pro-puppy legislation.

Truth is, the mercenary, er, I mean lobbyist clearly crossed the conflict of interests line.

But Book was given an 11th hour reprieve Tuesday when the item was deferred at the request of Commission Chairman Esteban Bovo, who said he wanted Book to be present to defend himself before any action was taken. There’s no hurry, he said, because Book — who skipped the meeting to be with another client even though he knew he was on the agenda — can’t stab them in the back again until next year, at the earliest.

Maybe the other client Book was meeting with was Petland, you know, to plan their 2019 strategy.

But the real reason that Bovo gave him a reprieve is because the chairman is running for mayor in 2020 and Book is known as a prolific fundraiser who was able to get his own daughter elected to Senate. Surely, Bovo will hold this out as long as he can so that he can squeeze Book for as much mayoral matrix moolah as he can.

Lucky for us, we have Commissioner Rebeca Sosa holding Book’s feet to the fire. She said she wants him back before the commission sooner rather than later to resolve this. Hopefully, she will put it on the agenda for the very next meeting.

“They were already working in Tallahassee this year without asking this commission for a waiver. I have a big problem with that,” Sosa said. “Either they work for the county, or they work for someone else.

“They are not here today. Why? When they knew this was on the agenda?”

Because Book is used to getting his way, even when he is not in chambers. Because there’s always someone who wants to be mayor.

  Esteban Bovo, Pet’s Trust, Ron Book

A momentary stay of execution on the Miami-Dade plan to arrest those they made homeless, but for how long?

Florida Action Committee first broke the news that Miami-Dade granted a temporary reprieve to the plan to round up the homeless registrants in Hialeah on May 6th under threat of lawsuit. However, this reprieve is very temporary; in fact, the stay of execution can be lifted as early as May 10th. In the meantime, there is a lot of interesting factoids about the city's plan to move the homeless registrants away from Hialeah:

The plan to move the camp to Kendall is in serious jeopardy: It was suggested a couple of weeks ago that the camp be moved by the Krome Service Processing Center (a facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but NBC Miami reported a "chaotic" emergency meeting overrun by outraged residents (or, as I prefer to call it, a lynch mob). Considering the suggested camp was more than a mile from the nearest bus stop and lacks electricity, running water or bathrooms, it should be understandable the reluctance of camp residents to move. Protests at the new camp took place on Sunday.

The Miami-Dade police isn't exactly doing much about the crisis at the moment: Considering MiamiPD's recent problems with police brutality, it is probably a good thing they adopted a "wait and see" approach to the looming homeless camp crisis. “The last thing we want is to have to take any enforcement,” Detective Alvaro Zabaleta says. “It just depends how everything lays out between now and May 6. It’s hard for us to have a plan of action if we don’t know how things are going to go.” Miami-Dade Police showed up Sunday night along with the so-called Homeless Trust but not to arrest anyone; instead, they claimed to be offering "resources" to the registrants.

Miami-Dade officials have succeeded in finding housing... for only ONE current camp resident: Ron Book likes to tell the media that there are plenty of options for camp residents but in reality, (as told by the Miami Herald), "Even so, he estimated the county is housing fewer than a dozen registered sex offenders in a system that provides some sort of shelter — be it a bed or an apartment — for more than 8,000 people. In a May 2 letter to the county, a Legal Services lawyer threatening a lawsuit over the planned dismantlement said Miami-Dade was only able to place a single camp resident in housing."

Ron  does not live in Miami, yet Ron Book has exceeded his stay as head of the Homeless Trust: Ron Book has been granted Emperor status at the Homeless Trust despite not even living in Miami-Dade County. He is the shot caller for this controversial organization: "Book has held the Homeless Trust chairmanship post since 2004, and exerts enough authority over the county’s homeless agency that he’s considered the de facto head of the tax-funded operation. In interviews, he has described holding veto power over day-to-day spending and housing decisions made by the paid staff. He also serves as the only authorized spokesman for the department." Interestingly, the Trust has been denied millions of dollars in federal assistance. I can understand why.

Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result each time. We have the same players in the game (Ron Book, many of the same county commissioners (Pepe Diaz in particular),  and the same game plan (Julia Tuttle Shorecrest, Allapattah, now Hialeah). This isn't even SSDD, folks, this is the same shit from the same assholes.

I have a better solution-- Repeal the Lauren Book Residence Restriction Ordinance, toss Ron Book out of the Homeless Trust, sen recidivist Ron to prison, repeal and replace Senator Bimbo, do the same to Pepe Diaz and Bovo, and send these corrupt pols to Guantanamo Bay. Problem solved.

Miami-Dade Commissioners Want Cops to Arrest Homeless Registrants on Sight

I don't know if the Book crime family had a hand in this, but I'd actually be shocked if they weren't at least in support of this evil measure. This law won''t make the streets safer; it will merely drive homeless registrants deeper underground.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dade-commissioners-propose-arrest-of-homeless-sex-offenders-on-sight-9807032

Miami-Dade Commissioners Want Cops to Arrest Homeless Sex Offenders on Sight
ISABELLA VI GOMES | NOVEMBER 7, 2017 | 1:07PM

For 12 years, Miami-Dade's registered sex offenders have been barred from living within 2,500 feet of any school, playground, or daycare. They're effectively homeless by law, and today hundreds live in squalor in makeshift "tent cities" under bridges, near trailer parks, and on roadsides. After New Times reported on a camp near Hialeah, county officials called these encampments inhumane and unsanitary and promised a solution.

That solution, though, apparently isn't to amend the law or to find transitional housing. Two commissioners now want to simply put the offenders back in jail.

This morning, the county commission considered an ordinance that would change Miami-Dade’s policy on what to do with homeless people who are found sleeping on public property. Currently, police are required to offer homeless people the chance to go to a shelter before arresting them, but under the proposed change, homeless sex offenders would be immediately arrested.

Members of the local American Civil Liberties Union and the Florida Action Committee (FAC) have already called the measure excessive punishment and are demanding that commissioners vote against it.

“Instead of building affordable housing, [the county] would rather spend money on incarceration and criminalizing homelessness,” says ACLU attorney Nancy Abudu, who is defending three homeless sex offenders in a lawsuit against Miami-Dade.

Since the county passed its restrictive laws in 2005, sex offenders across Miami-Dade have struggled to find permanent residences. Because the majority of the county is off-limits, dozens were forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway until a national backlash resulted in their relocation. By 2014, the colony had been moved multiple times, eventually to a set of railroad tracks near Hialeah, where at least 233 offenders have lived in tents since then.

This past August, New Times investigated the encampment at NW 71st Street and NW 36th Court, which local business owners say has scared customers away and made them worry for their safety. Soon after, Homeless Trust Chairman Ron Book declared the site a “health crisis” and promised the county would shut it down as soon as possible. In spite of his remarks, the camp is still there months later.

Critics have long demanded that the county relocate sex offenders to legal housing. However, many commissioners disagree. One, in particular, has offered his own solution: placing offenders back behind bars.

Recently, Commissioner Esteban Bovo drafted a proposal to amend the county code governing overnight camping on public property. The code states that law enforcement is required to offer homeless people the opportunity to go to a shelter before arresting them. Bovo’s ordinance, however, would eliminate this safeguard for sex offenders, claiming it has been an “unworkable, unduly [burden] on law enforcement” because sex offenders are ineligible to stay at homeless shelters anyway.

Bovo’s ordinance, cosponsored by Commissioner Rebeca Sosa, passed its first hearing this morning and is scheduled to go to committee in December. If it's approved, homeless sex offenders would be vulnerable to immediate arrests, while other homeless people would continue to be protected under the code.

Bovo says that “as commissioners, we are tasked with identifying ways in which to keep the residents and families of Miami-Dade safe, and this item accomplishes this goal.”

Many homeless advocates, however, insist the ordinance would not improve public safety.

“It’s ill-informed, uninformed policy,” says Gail Colletta, president of the FAC. If anything, the ordinance would put sex offenders, who are trying to be compliant with the county law, between “a rock and a hard place,” she says.

“Either they stay in the area and risk violating the [ordinance], or they leave and risk arrest for violating the county’s [residency restriction]," she says. "It’s a lose-lose situation.”

Abudu says the ordinance might also violate the state and federal constitutions because it would add time to sex offenders’ criminal sentences retroactively. “It’s unfair to set these people up for incarceration, where they’ll be subject to poor mental-health services, overcrowding, and limited resources,” she says.

Of particular concern, Colletta says, is the motivation behind the ordinance: “It seems like a pointless move on [the county’s] part. Either it’ll push [sex offenders] to go underground or, if they’re arrested, taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill.”

Instead, the ACLU and the FAC urge the county to do away with its harsh policies.

"[The county] should be getting rid of the residency restriction," Colletta says. "These people shouldn't need to live on the street in the first place.”