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Miami Dade County Employees Making 100K to 450K - Time for Immediate Layoffs or Pink Slips!
Miami Dade County Employees Making 100K to 450K - Time for Immediate Layoffs or Pink Slips!
Miami Dade County has over 28,000 employees with a little over 3000 employees making over $100,000.00 each year, and over 75 making over $200,000.00 each year. I assure you the County will be able to get by with the remaining 25,000 employees if we lay-off these fat cats, I am certain of this.
We can save a few billion dollars immediately by laying-off these 3000 County Employees, and we take the funds saved and reduce property taxes by 20%, and help the people of Miami Dade get through these financial tough times.
This 2010 list is of the Miami Dade County Employees Making Over 100K up to 450K.
Time for immediate lay-offs or pink slips for these 3000 employees.
Miami Dade County has over 28,000 employees with a little over 3000 employees making over $100,000.00 each year, and over 75 making over $200,000.00 each year. I assure you the County will be able to get by with the remaining 25,000 employees if we lay-off these fat cats, I am certain of this.
We can save a few billion dollars immediately by laying-off these 3000 County Employees, and we take the funds saved and reduce property taxes by 20%, and help the people of Miami Dade get through these financial tough times.
This 2010 list is of the Miami Dade County Employees Making Over 100K up to 450K.
Time for immediate lay-offs or pink slips for these 3000 employees.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Candidate wants ballot redone
The Miami Herald
Candidate wants ballot redone
A candidate for Miami-Dade court clerk is asking a judge to order new ballots for the November election, arguing his name was wrongly listed fourth on the ballot instead of third or first. Darrin McGillis, one of three challengers to longtime incumbent Harvey Ruvin, said he was given incorrect information by county election workers when he filed for office.
They originally told him candidates would be listed alphabetically, he said, which would place him before Ruvin, Alfredo ''Al'' Perez and Julio Valido. Nonpartisan county races, such as mayor and county commissioner, are listed in alphabetical order. The clerk race, however, is partisan; Ruvin won a Democratic primary in August, and no Republicans ran for the seat.
On advice from state elections officials, then-Miami-Dade elections chief Lester Sola decided to follow the same rule used for other partisan races. That would have placed major-party candidates first, then listed those without party affiliations in the order they qualified. McGillis and Valido were at the elections office at the same time. McGillis said he paid and filed his paperwork first, but the time stamp on Valido's paperwork is 37 minutes earlier.
MiamiHerald.com
Posted on Fri, Sep. 19, 2008
BY MATTHEW I. PINZUR
Candidate wants ballot redone
A candidate for Miami-Dade court clerk is asking a judge to order new ballots for the November election, arguing his name was wrongly listed fourth on the ballot instead of third or first. Darrin McGillis, one of three challengers to longtime incumbent Harvey Ruvin, said he was given incorrect information by county election workers when he filed for office.
They originally told him candidates would be listed alphabetically, he said, which would place him before Ruvin, Alfredo ''Al'' Perez and Julio Valido. Nonpartisan county races, such as mayor and county commissioner, are listed in alphabetical order. The clerk race, however, is partisan; Ruvin won a Democratic primary in August, and no Republicans ran for the seat.
On advice from state elections officials, then-Miami-Dade elections chief Lester Sola decided to follow the same rule used for other partisan races. That would have placed major-party candidates first, then listed those without party affiliations in the order they qualified. McGillis and Valido were at the elections office at the same time. McGillis said he paid and filed his paperwork first, but the time stamp on Valido's paperwork is 37 minutes earlier.
MiamiHerald.com
Posted on Fri, Sep. 19, 2008
BY MATTHEW I. PINZUR
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
NBC TV South Florida - Darrin McGillis with Rick Scott, Alex Sink, Bill McCollum on the race for Governor
Candidate for Governor Darrin McGillis on NBC TV South Florida with Rick Scott, Alex Sink and Bill McCollum.
http://www.mcgillis4governor.com/
In the NBC News clip Darrin is quoted as being in support of legalizing marijuana (personal use amounts). This is true, except that Darrin replaces the current law with a five ($5,000) thousand dollar fine versus being arrested, charged and convicted of a criminal offense.
This will only apply to personal use amounts, and any person caught with amounts that are not personal use amounts will face Felony arrest and conviction.
The goal is to take the resources of professional Law Enforcement away from what is a minor criminal offense and fine those caught with personal use amounts $5,000 - we can use the money collected to put more Law Enforcement officers on the streets to combat the very serious illegal drug distribution problem we have in Florida.
In the NBC News clip Darrin is quoted as being in support of legalizing marijuana (personal use amounts). This is true, except that Darrin replaces the current law with a five ($5,000) thousand dollar fine versus being arrested, charged and convicted of a criminal offense.
This will only apply to personal use amounts, and any person caught with amounts that are not personal use amounts will face Felony arrest and conviction.
The goal is to take the resources of professional Law Enforcement away from what is a minor criminal offense and fine those caught with personal use amounts $5,000 - we can use the money collected to put more Law Enforcement officers on the streets to combat the very serious illegal drug distribution problem we have in Florida.
Make no mistake Darrin is for stiff prison terms for any person selling any amount of drugs to minors and persons under 21 years of age, including the sale of marijuana. If you sell drugs to kids in Florida you will go to jail for a very long time under a McGillis administration.
It's time for commonsense laws and to help get our Law Enforcement professionals properly funded. We must declare a War on Illegal Drugs in the State of Florida.
Political advertisement paid for and approved by Darrin E. McGillis, Democrat for Governor of the State of Florida Post Office Box 56-6091, Miami, Florida 33256-6091. Contributions or gifts to the Campaign of Darrin E. McGillis are not tax deductible. Contributions are limited to $500 per person or corporate entity.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Clerk of court challenger tenders courteous concession
Click link for DBR story on Darrin McGillis concession:
Harvey Ruvin is facing opposition for the first time in his 16 years as Miami-Dade County’s Clerk of the Courts.
This time, he has plenty of opponents vying for his job, which pays $173,000 a year. The four-way race to be decided Tuesday includes Alfredo Perez, a minor-league baseball player turned lawyer; Darrin McGillis, the former promoter of the Hispanic boy band Menudo.
Ruvin said courts already recycle with the exception of sensitive sealed documents that can’t be recycled for confidentiality reasons.
Elections: Clerk of the Courts Miami-Dade veteran Ruvin draws opponents for first time
Daily Business Review
October 31, 2008 By: Billy Shields
Daily Business Review
October 31, 2008 By: Billy Shields
Harvey Ruvin is facing opposition for the first time in his 16 years as Miami-Dade County’s Clerk of the Courts.
This time, he has plenty of opponents vying for his job, which pays $173,000 a year. The four-way race to be decided Tuesday includes Alfredo Perez, a minor-league baseball player turned lawyer; Darrin McGillis, the former promoter of the Hispanic boy band Menudo.
"This is an elected office, and I honor anyone who’d put their hat in the ring to run," Ruvin said. Let’s hope the best man wins."
Perez is an attorney who was a catcher in the Houston Astros organization for four years in the 1980s before he was sidelined by a knee injury. He became a Miami solo practitioner after going back to school and hanging up his baseball career.
Perez is running on a green platform - he wants to make the courts paperless with electronic filing and mandatory recycling throughout the courts system.
Ruvin said courts already recycle with the exception of sensitive sealed documents that can’t be recycled for confidentiality reasons.
Perez also advocates the elimination of outsourced collection efforts for traffic citations and other court debts. Firms in Texas and California currently handle that function.
"Why can’t we have our own departments here that collect our own traffic citations?" he asked.
Ruvin said his office is collecting debts left for dead in the range of "tens of millions of dollars" annually.
McGillis’s signature issue is electronic filing and putting all court documents online as so-called portable document format files.
"You can’t access an order, you can’t access a motion, you can’t access any document filed by a litigant," he said. "Even appellate courts have documents in PDFs."
McGillis wants to create a countywide database modeled on the federal PACER system and hopes to turn it into a template for other Florida courts.
At the moment, few court documents - usually final orders, judgments or notices of appeal - can be downloaded. In contrast, the Florida Supreme Court and the five state district courts of appeal offer same-day opinions online.
Ruvin notes the available documents are in PDF format, but he said the kinds of documents available on a court’s Web site are limited by Florida statute.
The clerk’s post is one of the most unsung but important positions in the court system. Miami-Dade is the largest circuit in the state, and its clerk’s office is the fourth-largest in the nation with 1,500 employees.
The clerk is responsible for keeping court records, securing evidence, collecting fines, summoning jurors and recording deeds. Its influence extends to the use and receipt of county funds. The office generates about $100 million in annual revenue outside the court system and processes about $1 billion in annual revenue.
Ruvin reached the general election by handily defeating David Nelson in the Aug. 26 primary. He has name recognition built up through the years, said Miami campaign consultant Steven Ferreiro, who is not working on Ruvin’s race.
Daily Business Review
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