Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Five more days until the Coral Gables election. Just two mailers today: another in the Quesada series — the one defines “tax” like we don’t know what that means — and a, get this, TWELVE pager from Mayoral candidate Jim Cason. It’s actually a pretty effective piece of mail, but as it opens out like a two-sided fold-out poster, I’m going to have some trouble scanning it.

I’ll update this item when I get it scanned, but it may be a while.

Update 1: Scanned the Quesada mailer.

Update 2 (4/7): I’ve placed the whole Cason 12-page monster in a handy downloadable .pdf file.
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Tuesday saw one phone call, a recording of Ralph Caberra‘s voice urging me to vote for Gonzalo Sanabria. The message properly identified itself as paid and approved by the Sanabria campaign. It had decent sound quality too.

I also got four mailers: a Slesnick (Mayor), a Quesada rerun (Group 4), a new Sanabria (Group 4), and Kerkyk 4-pager (Group 5). Update: The scans are below.

More interestingly, I had a one-hour talk with Frank Quesada yesterday morning, which I will write up as soon as possible. He struck me as a very earnest and sincere person. I think he’s basically well to the right of me, but I was impressed how he’d been studying the Coral Gables budget, one line item at a time.
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Monday: nothing, nada, ziltch.

A relief, really.

This morning a lady from the Quesada GOTV effort called to ask if he “could count on my support.” I said I was undecided.

Otherwise, a quiet Sunday.