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Comments (0) Best Local Girl Gone Bad - 2007

Natacha Seijas

She's the first county commissioner to receive a recall vote since 1972. At taxpayer expense, she hired lawyers in an attempt to stop the vote on the strong-mayor debate. Pushing her personal vendetta even further, in November 2006 she proposed cutting the mayor's salary from $229,083 to $12,000. Carlos Alvarez called the suggestion "childish." She backed moving the Urban Development Boundary. She called her detractors anti-Cuban, saying, "These are a bunch of racists from South Dade who don't want us in power." She epitomizes everything that's wrong with single-member districts (or, for a loyal constituency in Hialeah, everything that's right). Seijas has made herself unlikable in the past — in 2002 she told then-county commission chairwoman Gwen Margolies: "Today is the day you might just leave here in a body bag" — but never so much as in the past twelve months. Commissioner Seijas, we salute you.

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geniusofdespair
geniusofdespair

The Vile Natacha...did you know she also made the "Best of" in "Miami Today"?They gave it to her for her vacation globetrotting which translates to: Promoting Global Trade.

Sure.

geniusofdespair
geniusofdespair

The Vile Natacha...did you know she also made the "Best of" in "Miami Today"?They gave it to her for her vacation globetrotting which translates to: Promoting Global Trade.

Sure.

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