Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

The Green Mobility Network sent questionnaires to the candidates in the Gables election, asking their opinions on various street and transport issues. Only a few replied, but you can see their answers online.

Questions include:

• How can Coral Gables enhance facilities for walking and bicycling throughout the city?
• How can the city help residents and businesses get more use out of Metrorail?
• What future do you see for the Coral Gables Trolley: more service, less service, about the same, or something different entirely?
• What can the city do about walkability, bikability, and street safety around the University of Miami?
• What does the term “complete streets” mean to you?
• Do you embrace the policy articulated last spring by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood: “Every transportation agency, including DOT, has the responsibility to improve conditions and opportunities for walking and bicycling and to integrate walking and bicycling into their transportation systems.” Please explain.

I think questionnaires like this are great, and it’s a shame that there were not more of them, with greater participation.

We got a Sanabria robocall this afternoon, but I wasn’t the one who picked up the phone and it was over before I got there, so I can’t tell you what it said.

I also got a call from someone who says several people have been getting a robocall from Bill Clinton — Bill Clinton — endorsing Tom Korge in the Mayor’s race. This surely has to be the smallest and most local election the former President has gotten involved in since he left the White House — and maybe since he entered it. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten mine yet.

Presumably the connection is that Tom Korge and his brother Christopher were major fundraisers for the Clintons.

Saturday’s haul, in addition to the push poll, is one letter, three mailers, and a door hanger left while I was out.
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This one in the Mayor’s race. First question: who are you supporting in the Mayor’s race? I said Korge, so the questioner told me he was on the Pensions Board and failed to prevent the pensions crisis, and that although he’s been critical of negative campaigning, a group supporting him [unnamed] has been doing negative campaigning.

Is this call — which since it is a “poll” isn’t covered by ordinary disclosure rules — paid for by Slesnick or Cason? We may never know. (Although it would help if other people getting the call note in comments who is and especially is not being attacked.)