Subject: U.S. Conference of Mayors

• Vlog - March on the Mayors Community Reactions

  June 20, 2008

• Over the Weekend - Universe Weekend, Stonewall Street Festival and March on the Mayors

  June 23, 2008

• Bike Blog - Mayors Determine Bikes Rock

  July 1, 2008

• Fauxbama Causes Doubletakes in Denver

  August 26, 2008

• Diaz at the DNC: American Dreaming

  August 28, 2008

• What's Next for Mayor Diaz?

  November 10, 2008

• Manny Cabinet Watch Day 3: A New Department?

  November 12, 2008

• Obama Picks Some White Guy for HUD. What's a Manny to Do?

  Barack Obama continued his pattern of naming just about everyone from the Clinton administration to his cabinet, while simultaneously leaving Latinos out in the cold by picking Shaun Donovan as his secretary of housing and urban development. But hey, that was our Mayor Manny Diaz's fantasy position! Obama, you tease, we totally thought you were going to take him away from us, and we were all excited ... for him! Well, there's still a little hope. Diaz could be named to head this so-called White

  December 15, 2008

• CNN Says Manny Diaz Is Full of Pork, Ignorant of Water Slides

  Last week Manny Diaz and his U.S. Conference of Mayors decided to officially get in on the sweet, sweet federal government handout action and submitted a request for $73.2 billion for infrastructure programs in various states. CNN decided to take a closer look and found the plan has more pork in it than a British dessert. And Diaz doesn't come off too well defending the proposals. CNN is particularly pissed off at components such as $4.2 million for a polar bear exhibit in Rhode Island, $6.1

  December 18, 2008

• Could a Manny Diaz Senate Run Exist Outside of Our Imagination?

  We're not sure whether the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza is pulling this out of his ass or if he's heard things we haven't (quite possible), but toward the end of a blog post about Jeb Bush's forthcoming Senate decision, he includes Manny Diaz as a possible Democratic contender for the Senate seat. As far as we can tell, this is the first mention, albeit brief and possibly wrong, that Diaz has any actual interest in the seat. We briefly threw out the idea in November, wondering what the f

  January 6, 2009

• Toot! Toot! Mayor Diaz Hops Aboard the Pickens Plan Train

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  January 20, 2009

• Manny and His Marry Band of Mayors Get Snubbed by Obama

  Mayor Manny Diaz is in D.C. exercising his duties as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and hoped to get some face time with another president. You know, that President Obama one. Flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others, Diaz is running around our nation's capital in support of the proposed stimulus package, and the mayors went to the White House yesterday. They met with top aides such as Valerie Jarrett and Cecelia Muñoz, but according to Politico were hoping to m

  February 5, 2009

• Obama to Manny Diaz: Don't Ef This Up

  As his young administration stomps frantically on the flaming bag of crap formerly known as the global economy left smoldering on the White House doorstep by a snickering Dubya on his way out, President Obama is about to throw around a cool $787 billion in stimulus funds to try to douse the flames.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsLookin' at you, Manny.Understandably, he's feeling some pressure to make sure all of that sweet, sweet taxpayer sugar turns into the 3.5 million jobs he's promised. Today, he

  February 20, 2009

• Manny Diaz is Deeply Disappointed by Bobby Jindal, Too

  via Urban BrownWould Chuck Strouse have better luck selling these in Miami parking lots? Poor Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal can not catch a break. Everyone from freebase-Twitter addict Rick Sanchez to semi-Conservative Columnist David Brooks is criticizing his speech on Tuesday night, in which he tried to channel Ronald Reagan, but ended up coming off more like Kenneth the Page. Now Miami Mayor Manny Diaz is joining in on the Jindal criticism extravaganza along with his US Conference of Mayors

  February 26, 2009

• Diaz and Mayors Call for Stronger Gun Control in Wake of Shootings

  The number of horrible mass shootings nationally in the past few weeks has been astoundingly sad. Incidents in Miami alone have taken the lives of a dozen people in the past few weeks. I don't know if you can explain something like this. Blaming it on the economy, as it appears some might want to do, just seems vapid. We blame everything on the economy nowadays. There is one way to link all of these events, though: They involve guns. In his role as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Mia

  April 6, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of November 6, 2008

  "The pillars of Wall Street and corporate America are not giving money to Obama because he is a nice guy; he's a player."

  November 6, 2008

• Heimlich Maneuvering

  Thousands of local schoolkids were taught a faulty lifesaving technique thanks to Manny Diaz.

  September 11, 2008

• Bottled Water Gets the Boot

  August 14, 2008

• Head Spins: Mark Leventhal

  July 3, 2008

• Full Tires, Spare Liars

  Anti-politico bike race hits the streets.

  June 19, 2008

• John Timoney, America’s Worst Cop

  September 20, 2007

• No Rest for the Weary Agitator

  March 4, 2004

• Petty Cash

  August 22, 1996

• Manny Diaz Endorses Kendrick Meek for Senate

  Rep. Kendrick Meek added another impressive entry to his list of endorsement of US Senate today as City of Miami Mayor, and president of the US Conference of Mayor, Manny Diaz announced his endorsement. The press release came with equal amounts of back patting on the part of both men. "Congressman Kendrick Meek is a leader in Congress who knows that placing unfair financial burdens and unfunded mandates on our cities is a practice that must end. Cities are being asked to do

  June 11, 2009

• Obama, Biden Snub Manny Diaz's U.S. Conference of Mayors Going-Away Party

  Miami Mayor Manny Diaz's time as head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors has come to an end, and usually the sitting American president sends administration officials to the conference -- this year held in Providence, Rhode Island -- but the Obama administration pulled out. The reason: Providence Mayor David Cicilline is in a labor dispute with the firefighters' union, and the group was picketing the event. Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to attend, but the White House said it would not br

  June 15, 2009