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VOTERS ARE ANGRY: Miami Mayor Carlos Alvarez Ousted in Recally by 9-1 Margin Over Tax Hikes, Pay Hi?

By Glenn Reynolds

VOTERS ARE ANGRY: Miami Mayor Carlos Alvarez Ousted in Recally by 9-1 Margin Over Tax Hikes, Pay Hikes for Unionized City Employees. “The spectacular fall from power comes after two years of missteps, ranging from granting top staffers big pay hikes to construction of a publicly funded stadium for the Florida Marlins to implementation of a property-tax rate increase that outraged an electorate struggling through an ugly recession.”

And reader Laurie Myers emails with this tidbit: “The unions tried to save him but failed big. I remember last year when the petitions were available to sign, a group in my office marched over together to the petition site to sign on. Many in this group were the same ones who couldn’t wait to vote for Obama, and they went as a group the day the polls opened to vote for him.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).