Norman Braman Backlash Begins With County Unions Protest Today UPDATE
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Update: Norman Braman has issued a statement, claiming the coalition is trying to distract voters from the real issue: Accountability from the county commission. "Attempting to make me the focus of the issues in this election is an attempt to mislead the public," Braman says.
Braman has maintained he is just trying to even the playing field since the incumbents raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists, developers and contractors that do business with the county.
Ironically, Frost's union, the South Florida AFL-CIO, has poured tens of thousands of dollars to support the previous campaigns of the incumbent commissioners, as well as efforts to fight the strong mayor referendum in 2007 on behalf of the county commission. Frost insists the money the union has given to county commission campaigns pales in comparison to what Braman will raise. Frost adds that the car dealer has no business getting involved in elections for African-American seats.
"He lives in Indian Creek Village for half the year and the other half he lives in France," Frost says. "Regular ordinary people are sick of billionaires putting up millions of dollars into super PACs to support a slate of candidates."
Frost tells us that he expects at least 100 people to show up for the protest.
Update: In his statement, Braman says by supporting alternatives and encouraging people to vote, he is helping Miami-Dade residents have "a real choice which they have not had in the past. He also noted that all the candidates in his slate are minorities.
































