Soy un perdedor.

Overslept. Running behind. Quick note: Carlos Alvarez, mayor of Miami-Dade County, lost his recall election yesterday.

Voters favored removing the mayor by 88 percent to 12 percent.

Apparently, Mr. Alvarez managed to alienate people by raising property taxes 40 percent, while giving various county workers (including his “top aides”) raises. And his taxpayer-subsidized BMW didn’t help much.

Edited to add: The NYT article touches very briefly on this, but Commissioner Natacha Seijas also got kicked out of office. Here’s a longer article from the Miami Herald on Ms. Seijas and her loss. And here’s the Herald’s coverage of Mr. Alvarez and his loss.

(Hattip: Ace of Spades.)

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One Response to “Soy un perdedor.”

  1. LinkSwarm for Wednesday, March 16, 2011 « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog says:
    March 16, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    […] Big-spending Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez recalled from office by an almost 9-1 ratio. Alvarez was a RINO that acted like a full-bore Democrat, hiking property taxes and giving big pay raises to unionized public employees. (hat tip: Dwight.) […]