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TMCNet: Mayor vs. rival: a look behind spat: An examination of public spending records by The Miami Herald found that a veteran commissioner used spotty, out-of-context facts in his public attack on Miami's mayor.

[September 13, 2009]

Mayor vs. rival: a look behind spat: An examination of public spending records by The Miami Herald found that a veteran commissioner used spotty, out-of-context facts in his public attack on Miami's mayor.

Sep 13, 2009 (The Miami Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- When Miami Commissioner Tomas Regalado derided Mayor Manny Diaz during a budget hearing Thursday night as living like the "mayor of Beverly Hills" and citing $3.6 million in spending, Diaz stormed to the dais and challenged his foe.


It was a rare public spectacle involving city leaders who have squabbled for eight years. This time, they sparred over facts, raising the question: Who was telling the truth? A day after the exchange, a Miami Herald review found that Regalado -- who started the verbal tussle -- used misleading facts to challenge the man whose seat he hopes to take in November.

Much of the $3.6 million in spending Regalado cited, for instance, is money listed under the mayor's office but spent by departments throughout the city. A large chunk of the items on the list -- at least $2.1 million -- involve children's educational programs funded by grants from the federal and state governments, the Miami-Dade Children's Trust, the School Board and philanthropic groups.

'INSULTING' "What's insulting about it . . . he doesn't take the time to figure out what it is he's accusing us of," Diaz's chief of staff, Javier Fernandez, said late Friday. "If he wants transparency, then he has to have it as well." After the exchange Thursday, Regalado admitted he had not closely vetted the information. Regalado, challenging Commission Chair Joe Sanchez for the mayor's seat, did not respond to interview requests Friday.

The exchange began Thursday when Regalado told the packed commission chambers and a cable TV audience that the mayor's office had spent millions over the past three years.

The report that Regalado used was generated by the city purchasing office in response to a public records request from veteran AFSCME union chief Charlie Cox. City unions are in a pitched battle with the city and the mayor, who wants to renegotiate their contracts and cut their pay to ease a budget crisis.

Regalado, who is being endorsed by the three major city unions, read off a list of purchases from the report.

It was part of a theme Regalado has employed for years: Diaz acts like he's the mayor of posh Beverly Hills, Calif., not Miami, a city with steep pockets of poverty.

Later, the usually measured Diaz reappeared in the chambers. "Earlier in the day, Commissioner Regalado took a cheap shot at me," he said.

He was immediately interrupted by Regalado, who became so angry he threw papers on the floor in front of the dais. "Mr. Mayor, I didn't take a cheap shot. You don't have the right because you've been living as the mayor of Beverly Hills." Diaz then cited purchases made in Regalado's office that totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars. "You should know better," Diaz told him.

To illustrate his point that Regalado was using information out of context, Diaz produced a copy of a similar report linking Regalado's office to $555,000 in purchases during the same three-year period.

The figure was clearly off base because it too contained many of the citywide blanket purchase orders like coffee service and bottled water.

'FRUGAL OFFICE' "We run a very frugal office. We don't spend wildly," Regalado's chief of staff Tony Crapp said Friday night.

A closer examination of the list and other records examined Friday by The Miami Herald tell a different story than the one Regalado pitched Thursday.

Beyond the $2.1 million targeted for school and philanthropic groups, a $450,000 line-item came from a Knight Foundation grant and paid for Elevate Miami, a program to help close the digital divide for low-income residents.

One $19,247 line-item was paid to reimburse a local supply house for vouchers that were given to students who couldn't afford to buy school uniforms.

Those grants -- and many of the other expenditures, such as buses to transport kids to various events -- are managed by Vivian Bohorques, who works in the mayor's office.

The public records also failed to accurately note exactly how much money Diaz's office had spent on an array of items such as wireless phone service, copy machines and package-delivery service. Many of those items are purchased under city-wide contracts.

Regalado's attack made it appear that Diaz's office had spent $415,000 with Verizon Wireless over the past three years.

In reality, that was the amount the entire city spent with Verizon for phones, DSL and wireless air cards.

It was not clear Friday exactly what portion of that $415,000 was attributable to the mayor's office.

One item that showed up on Diaz and Regalado's office expenditures illustrates just how far out of context the material was being taken.

The city had a contract in 2007 and 2008 to spend up to $20,710 with Best Photo Lab. But the actual payments show that the police department tapped into that contract 11 times, spending about $10,000. Regalado's office used it at least twice in 2007 and 2008, spending $62. Diaz's office tapped it once, for $530.

The dustup occurred after all of the taxpayers, workers, union leaders and community activists had vented about the steep cuts in Diaz's proposed $511 million budget.

Ultimately, it was political gamesmanship over $3 million in expenses when the city has a $118 million budget shortfall to fill.

In the end, just before midnight, Commissioners Regalado, Sanchez, Marc Sarnoff and Angel Gonzalez voted unanimously to leave the tax rate flat at $7.67 for every $1,000 of property.

To see more of The Miami Herald or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.herald.com. Copyright (c) 2009, The Miami Herald Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.

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