Sick kids purged

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Sick kids purged

I am simply gobsmacked that Gov. Rick Scott personally presses the Florida Legislature for $1 billion for corporate tax subsidies while the state purges 9,000 sick and disabled youth from the rolls of Florida’s Children Medical Services as detailed in the Dec. 6 article State strips frail kids of coverage.

Clearly, these disabled, frail, and sick kids couldn’t make the expected campaign contributions and lacked the well-heeled lobbyists that corporate America has in getting the governor’s attention and concern. An utter disgrace.

John Ise, Miami Shores

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Mayor Gimenez: My integrity is sacrosanct

By Mayor Carlos Gimenez

December 19, 2018 02:13 AM

Re Fabiola Santiago’s Dec. 14 column, “The ethics of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and his lobbyist sons stink,” about my sons and my ethics: First, my son Carlos J. (C.J.) does not lobby Miami-Dade County government. He is a lawyer who was working in the government legal affairs field before I was elected mayor in 2011.

Yet he has not been active in any county business. Santiago initially included him as an active lobbyist in the online version of her column, then when advised that he is listed as “not active lobbyist” — as posted on the county website — she did not include the date of Jan. 27, 2011 that is listed as the last “inactive.”