🚨Ft Lauderdale Commissioner John Herbst GOES OFF on attorney hired to negotiate buying a new City Hall.
“This is like going to a LOAN SHARK to borrow money. We can borrow at 4%. We're paying them 14%!! That's a 10% delta.
Respectfully, I cut my teeth on Wall Street working for Drexel Burnham-Lombert in the 80s. I spent 25 years in municipal finance. This is what I do for a living.
This is the WORST financial deal I have ever seen in my life! I have NEVER seen a deal in public finance that's negotiated on a post-tax basis in all the years I've been doing this. If you negotiated this on our behalf, shame on you.”
ROBBERY: Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins promised a “deep dive” to find waste and misuse in the city budget — which has DOUBLED in the last 5 years with 77% going to salaries and benefits. Instead, Higgins wants a HALF-A-BILLION DOLLAR credit card while we’re already drowning in debt from Marlins Park and other high interest bonds.
Salaries for Miami city employees are up 54% and benefits up 62% in the last three years and the number of city hall insiders making over $200,000 has DOUBLED in two years. While regular Miami residents — with a median household income of $66,000 — have only seen a 2-3% increase in wages per year.
And now Higgins, city manager James Reyes (salary: $475,000 and lives in Broward), Commissioner Damian Pardo and city attorney George Wysong (salary: $417,000 and doesn’t live in the city) are covering up public records that document how much taxpayer money they actually pay out to city workers. #BecauseMiami
@eg720@BaseballGuyRyan@RomeovilleKid Nobody cares about journalism. It’s a dying industry because of people like you you think we actually listen to those reporters same goddamn questions to athletes. We don’t give a damn you know why I’m here, boss.
I told Director Kash Patel that the FBI has names of 20 men to whom Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and girls. This basic fact seemed to surprise him. Why?
Is the FBI withholding those names to protect the President's rich and powerful friends? Release the Epstein files.