Let me tell you a little story about Norman Braman. Back in the good old days of the Orange Bowl in the parking lot Norman was selling his used cars on the parking lot grounds. Now he must of had a deal with the city. so when Norman was informed that the Orange Bowl will be torn down and in it's place there was going to be the Marlins new stadium. Well Ol Norman had a fit and he used up millions of our taxpayer dollars to have a special election to get Carlos Alvarez out of office. So because Norman was going to lose a lot of money from not selling his used cars anymore on the OB parking lot grounds. So that's the real story of Norman Braman.
Comments (0) Best Citizen - 2011
Vanessa Brito
God bless the fed-up little man. Or in this case, woman. As auto magnate Norman Braman wrestled Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez to the ground and made him eat his paisley tie, activist Vanessa Brito gingerly stuck out her pinky toe and sent evil commissioner Natacha Seijas reeling off a cliff to her dramatic political death. Brito founded Miami Voice, a political action committee (PAC) run on a shoestring, and targeted for recall commissioners who voted to approve Alvarez's budget plan, which raised property taxes despite plummeting property values. Seijas, a smug and sinister politician whose own PAC raised more than ten times the cash of Miami Voice and who had successfully stared down a recall campaign in 2006, taunted, "Been there, done that. Bring it on." But on March 15, as Alvarez lost his recall battle against Braman, Seijas was walloped by a resounding 88 percent vote to recall. Even without any political affiliations or a businessman's billions, Brito helped oust a corrupt Miami politician. The word huzzah seems appropriate here.



























