Posted in El Portal

El Portal Councilperson Vimari Roman challenges VotersOpinion to a “duel.” 🤣🤣🤣

The good news is that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to run for office, especially in the Village of El Portal. The bad news is that you don’t have to be a…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

The “anonymous” surrogate army of NMB Commissioner Michael “Mike” Joseph

VotersOpinion has been blogging about North Miami Beach politics for almost ten years.  In all this time, and over a dozen politicians later, we have never seen complaints filed or city business being disrupted by…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

NMB Commissioner McKenzie Fleurimond, now is not the time for campaigning.

(UPDATE: Commissioner Fleurimond and I had a lengthy discussion about this blog, during which I invited him to respond in a column which would be published unedited.  I also agreed to change the title of…

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NMB Commissioners Michael Joseph and McKenzie Fleurimond: “Never let a good crisis go to waste!”

The business of governing stops for no crisis, even a viral pandemic.  North Miami Beach city officials take their responsibility to keep the government running very seriously. Most of them anyway. In order to hold…

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Your Tax Dollars, Part 2: Duke Sorey’s Red Garden Sinkhole – “The Consultants”

In case you’re wondering how much North Miami’s Red Garden and its “Super Bowl Experience” cost taxpayers, wonder no more.  We’ve got the info. Or, some of it anyway. Truth be told, it’s anyone’s guess…

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Trouble’s A’Brewin’ for NMB Commish Michael “Mike” Joseph!

Never mind July.  It looks like Christmas might come as early as next month if the Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust find probable cause that North Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Joseph abused…

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Devil on the Dais! The twisted duplicity of Michael Joseph, Part 3

North Miami Beach Commissioner Michael “Mike” Joseph is up to his old devious tricks. Once again, most likely with the help of his BFF Hector Roos, Michael has perpetrated yet another “anonymous” attack against a…

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Drama queen much? NMB Commish Michael Joseph’s performance of a lifetime!

It’s common knowledge that North Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Joseph is a lying, scheming, conniving piece of work. But we had no idea he was also an award-winning actor, too! From the moment this smarmy…

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Devil on the Dais! The twisted duplicity of Michael Joseph, Part 2

In Part 1 of Devil on the Dais! we described the vindictive actions of North Miami Beach commission candidate Michael Joseph against Commissioner Barbara Kramer when she didn’t appoint him to a vacancy on the…

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Devil on the Dais! The twisted duplicity of Michael Joseph, Part 1

Move over, Frantz Pierre. There’s a new Devil in NMB! Fireworks were set off late into the night at Thursday’s North Miami Beach city commission meeting when Commissioner Barbara Kramer asked her colleagues to censure…

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