North Miami Beach carpetbagging “candidate” Linda Joseph, a/k/a Linda Joseph-Noel, has loudly and proudly referred to herself as a “community organizer” every chance she gets.

We’re not even sure what that even means, but for kicks let’s visit her track record of recent successes in her distinguished “career.”

In the fall of 2021, a group of “activists” attempted to incorporate a five square mile chunk of real estate referred to as Biscayne Gardens, which is lodged between North Miami to its south, North Miami Beach to its north, and Opa-locka to its west.

Linda Joseph first moved to that area in 2005 when she and her ex-husband purchased their home at 275 NW 157 Street, Miami, Florida 33169.  According to her Voter Audit Report, she has lived there continuously until August 7, 2025 when she decided to “move” to North Miami Beach and “establish residency” to run for office.

According to articles published by Miami Times’ Contributor Mark Sell, who followed this story extensively, the “leader of the effort and president of the Biscayne Gardens Chamber of Commerce” was Bernard W.H. Jennings, “a certified mediator and government consultant.”

In one of its first articles about this incorporation effort published on August 3, 2021, the Miami Times noted, “Jennings has formed a pro-incorporation PAC at BGBFPAC.com, and a pro-incorporation site, Say Yes to Incorporate Biscayne Gardens, at SayYes2021.com. The opposition has built its own site: BadTax.net.”

While the the link to “BGBFPAC.com” now leads to the Biscayne Gardens Chamber of Commerce site and not to whatever site the PAC may have had at one time, both the “SayYes” and “BadTax” websites are no longer active.

The article also noted that Jennings, “has even drawn up a sample city charter with a five-member council, a strong city-manager government and district representation. He has all but declared himself mayor.”

Furthermore, “Jennings repeatedly asserts that the tax hike would add up to an additional $150 a year for a two-bedroom house assessed at $157,000 – a small price in his eyes for the benefits of local control and oversight.”

While his aspirations were certainly ambitious, opponents of his pie-in-the-sky vision of a self-sustaining incorporated city presented actual facts proving that taxes would necessarily be raised to much higher levels than Jennings predicted in order to provide services to residents at all, much less at the levels being provided by Miami-Dade County at the then-current millage rate, which was significantly lower than surrounding municipalities.

Jennings also tried to push scare tactics on residents by claiming that surrounding cities with higher millage rates, such as North Miami and North Miami Beach, are looking to annex the Biscayne Gardens community, and that the only protection against this takeover would be to incorporate.

However, as the article states:

“The bottom line of incorporation is pivotal. Biscayne Gardens actually receives more in county services than it provides. It generates $9.6 million in revenue and the county spends $13.02 million providing services, giving the area a $3.4-million net benefit, according to the county’s staff report. Unlike, say, Aventura or Pinecrest, Biscayne Gardens is a recipient rather than a donor community.

Perhaps for that reason, neighboring cities, with their own financial stresses, have shown little appetite to acquire a largely working- and middle-class community of single-family homes on septic tanks, with more than 100 churches and tax-exempt institutions and relatively little tax-rich commercial property.”

On September 7, 2021, Miami Times Senior Writer Erik Bojnansky poured even more cold water on the heated arguments for incorporation in his article, Taxes at core of Biscayne Gardens vote, with a single paragraph:

“Should Biscayne Gardens become a municipality, its property tax rate will likely increase 107% in order to realize a balanced budget, according to a memo from Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Currently, Biscayne Gardens residents pay an unincorporated tax rate of $1.93 per $1,000 of assessed value. After incorporation, the new city of Biscayne Gardens will have to charge $4 per $1,000 of assessed value.”

That reality check only served to fuel a new round of race-based attacks by proponents of incorporation against residents who didn’t want their tax rates doubled.

Even then-Lobbyist/now-North Miami Beach City “Attorney” Joe Geller got in the act, while apparent visions of dollar signs danced in his head.

 

That same article specifically noted, “Jennings’ pro-incorporation group has received $10,000 from at least one developer. State Rep. Joe Geller, who represents developers in the area through his law firm Greenspoon Marder, has lent his name to the pro-incorporation cause.”

This political “activism” should have been a huge red flag when North Miami Beach Commissioners were seeking to hire a greedy, political animal like Joe Geller as its City “Attorney.”

But, we digress.

And despite all the fake propaganda being pushed by Bernard W.H. Jennings, Joe Geller, and their fellow “activists,” much to their dismay the self-proclaimed “oldest and largest Black newspaper” in South Florida published its October 27, 2021 recommendation in Vote no in Biscayne Gardens incorporation referendum, just five days before the November 2, 2021 Special Election.

After its editorial staff diligently studied all the facts, including a September 30, 2020 25-page staff report prepared by the Miami-Dade County Office of Management and Budget, it naturally came to the conclusion that:

“Pride and good intentions aren’t always a recipe for success, however. It costs money to run an effective independent municipality. Taxes will surely rise, and even then a small Biscayne Gardens may not be able to provide the services residents expect, much less sustain the staff that a whole new government requires. A deal would have to be cut with Miami-Dade PD for law enforcement coverage, unless a new Biscayne Gardens thinks it can builds its own police force in the current environment, which is highly doubtful.”

Biscayne Gardens resident, community activist, and race hustler extraordinaire, Elizabeth Judd, was so incensed at the “audacity” of HER newspaper daring to have an opinion contrary to one of her own, the next day she made her angst known on Facebook by posting this little gem, which was “Liked” by six of her friends and followers.

And despite all the fear mongering, race baiting, and snake oil sales pitching, Bernard W.H. Jennings’ pipe dream of becoming Mayor of Biscayne Gardens went down in flames.

As for North Miami Beach carpetbagging “candidate” Linda Joseph’s involvement in the pro-incorporation campaign of Biscayne Gardens, witnesses have told us she was out there all the time canvassing for votes.  They also claim that she was at the polls during early voting and election day urging everyone to vote Yes.

One witness even told us that she brashly accompanied voters into the booths at her own Biscayne Gardens’ Precinct 130, claiming they “needed assistance,” only to have election officials remove her from the premises, not once but twice.

We have already made a public records request for copies of any and all ADA Declaration to Provide Assistance Forms submitted to the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections for that Special Election to see if Linda Joseph had obtained permission to do so.  We will let you know of our findings.

We also know that Linda and her family are very close with Bernard W.H. Jennings, who played a significant role in creating one of the title defects (more about that in a future blog) of her father’s Biscayne Gardens house located at 275 NW 157 Street, Miami, Florida 33169, where Linda has lived for years before she decided to carpetbag her way to North Miami Beach in the nick of time to “establish residency” and run in this November’s municipal election.

In any event, despite Linda’s efforts to “organize” the Biscayne Gardens voters to incorporate (and possibly secure herself a cushy government job at their expense), she struck out when the petition failed spectacularly.

Linda’s second strike out was the time she signed a petition to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Florida, which never even made it to the ballot.

According to her Voter Audit Report, on December 1, 2025 she signed a petition for the Florida Marijuana Legalization Initiative entitled “Adult Personal Use of Marijuana,” which petition was apparently accepted on December 19, 2025, despite the fact that she wrote the name and wrong address on the form when she signed it.

As you can see by the line items in red below, on October 24, 2024, Linda changed her last name on her voter registration from “Joseph-Noel” to “Joseph.”

Then on August 7, 2025, for some unknown reason she changed her last name from “Joseph” back to “Joseph-Noel.”

On that same date, she changed her address from 275 NW 157 Street, Miami, Florida 33169 to 2 East Drive, North Miami Beach, Florida 33162.

Then, as we mentioned above, on December 19, 2025 Linda signed the Petition for “ADULT PERSONAL USE OF MARIJUANA.”

Except, she signed it as “LINDA JOSEPH” and not as “LINDA JOSEPH-NOEL,” the name listed on her voter registration.

And she printed her address as 2 East Drive, Miami, Florida 33169 and not 2 East Drive, North Miami Beach, Florida 33162.

 

Aside from her inability to remember what name she uses on any given day, the fact that she still cited the city and zip code of her Biscayne Gardens home instead of the North Miami Beach address she claims she was living in at the time, her bizarre behavior just serves to bolster our opinion that (a) she is clearly not of sound mind, and (b) that she’s a pathological liar.

But, we digress.

According to the Sun Sentinel, the Florida Division of Election’s website “showed 613,206 valid signatures for the proposal,” CBS News later reported, “Leon County Circuit Judge Jonathan Sjostrom found that state elections officials improperly directed invalidating about 42,000 petitions signed by what are known as “inactive” voters. But he upheld a separate directive to invalidate nearly 29,000 petitions collected for the marijuana initiative by out-of-state petition gatherers.”  The backers appealed to the First District Court of Appeal, which ruled in favor of the State, and the Florida Supreme Court declined to review the case.

As for Linda Joseph’s adventures in “community organizing” …

And finally, Linda struck out when her foray into Petitionville ended when a “citizen-initiated ballot measure” proposed by Ariel Vasquez, her unofficial “slate mate” in the race for seats on the North Miami Beach Commission, also went down in flames when 914 of the 1,861 signatures collected by organizers of his Stronger NMB were thrown out.

Oh, darn.

So much for Linda Joseph’s career as a “community organizer.”

A word of advice, Linda.

The most important thing, though, is that North Miami Beach voters make sure to send this loser back to her Biscayne Gardens home permanently on election day.

ON NOVEMBER 3, 2026 …

PLEASE VOTE RESPONSIBLY!

Stephanie