Phone Poll on Local Issues

I just got robo-polled by phone by “AI advisory“. The survey was about the Miami-Dade budget and the Mayor.

These were the questions:

• Do I approve/disapprove of Mayor Alvarez?
• What is the most important issue facing M-D county: crime, public corruption, or taxes.
• Do I support or oppose of each of the following (I’m paraphrasing):
  • requiring county employees to continue paying 5% in health contributions to avoid tax increases
  • increasing animal services funding by 40% without raising taxes in order to implement the recent popular initiative [I hated this question – my view is that it was underfunded – is that support or disapproval???]
  • cutting fire rescue which might cause firing 149 firefighters
  • the county plan to close up to 22 libraries and fire some large number of workers in order not to raise taxes [Boy is that an awful idea.]
  • the planned overhaul of taxicab services, including rules on cleanliness and training [first I had heard of it]
• What is my preferred source for local info: The Miami Herald, TV, Radio, the Internet, or other?
• Demographic stuff: Male/female, age group, race, political party.