…Get outta town!

Just posted online is a Miami Herald article entitled, 62 apply for Cutler Bay town manager.  Among the 62 are none other than former-former-FIRED North Miami Beach, and current-but-apparently-soon-to-be-gone Opa-locka, city manager Kelvin Baker, who also happens to be under fire for hiring/not hiring/hiring a new police chief under the radar.  Or, as Kelvin told the press, “behind closed doors.”

I’m guessing that Kelvin’s been feelin’ the heat right about now.  Even the Miami Herald Editor weighed in today in an opinion, Chief Beef, by stating, “The locked-down, shades-drawn selection of the Opa-locka police chief does not bode well for the future of a deeply troubled department in a crime-plagued city…This is no way to run a city that seeks to be known for something other than Arabian minarets and crime.”

Aside from reporters at a press conference announcing the new police chief while their cars were being broken in, Baker obviously didn’t realize that the public won’t back down when they suspect foul play.  Like all the sneaky maneuverings he pulled when he ruled the roost at North Miami Beach, Baker just proved to the residents of Opa-locka that he don’t need no stinkin’ Sunshine.  According to the Herald Editor, Baker & Co. “haven’t even come clean about [the new chief’s] salary.”

WHAT???

If he’s feeling the heat, it’s rightly deserved.

Little wonder that the Dishonorable Kelvin Baker has been shopping around for a new city to screw up.  So many cities, so little time.

Stephanie Kienzle
“Spreading the Wealth”