Vol. 43, No. 47 June 12, 2025 Miami voters get the government they deserve BY GRANT MILLER, able. Yet in a city where complaints about Publisher leadership are constant, most people didn’t In a recent elec- tion, just 11 percent bother to show up for a...
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Vol. 43, No. 47 June 12, 2025 Miami voters get the government they deserve BY GRANT MILLER, able. Yet in a city where complaints about Publisher leadership are constant, most people didn’t In a recent elec- tion, just 11 percent bother to show up for a local election. And so we return to the same headlines we have seen for years: City Hall corrup- BTW student wins ‘Feed Your tion, self-dealing commissioners, shady Creativity’ art competition of eligible voters in the City of Miami’s deals, and neighborhoods left behind. District 4 turned out Miami’s government didn’t become dys- to cast ballots in a functional by accident. It became dys- special election. Let functional because the people of Miami that sink in. Out of let it be. every 100 adults who The problem with low-turnout elections could have helped decide their city’s fu- is that they often get captured by special in- ture, 89 voters stayed home. terests (Joe Carollo spent hundreds of thou- In a city battling corruption scandals
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