MIAMI NOVEMBER 25 2015, nhr.com— Miami-Dade Commissioner and Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Jean Monestime’s right, “a company like UBER worth $ 50 billion, should not be forgiven or negotiate part of the debt of $ 3.2 million in fines that its drivers they have not paid. ”
UBER drivers owe approximately $ 3.2 million to the county and the plan of Giménez is to forgive $ 1.4 million and only collect on $ 1.8 million according to some officials within County Administration.
Chairman Monestime has criticized the mayor for his support of a company operating illegally in the county and now wanting to reward UBER under the pretext of the need “for a modern city.”
Monestime has the support of several commissioners that agree with regulating Uber, Lyft and the taxi industry, but do not agree with the mayor forgiving the money owed from fines.
According to some drivers who spoke with nelsonhortareporta.com the company UBER has told them not to worry about the fines paid, “we will pay them, this serves as free advertising and promotion,” one driver says he was told by management of the company.
Another commissioner who is upset with Mayor Giménez is Dennis Moss, who has been a critic of UBER and is against the reduction, “if they knowingly violated the law, they must pay the fine” said.
Yesterday Nelsonhortareporta.com published an email sent by reader Emilio Izquierdo, an independent limousine driver whose been pursued by the Department of Transportation inspectors and whom the mayor has refused to meet to discuss the problem facing small limousines rental companies.
Nelsonhortareporta.com wrote a text message to Michael Hernandez, a spokesman for Giménez, giving the mayor the opportunity to respond to allegations of Izquierdo, and so far none of them have responded; thus revealing the professionalism and transparency that is the Office of Information of the county administration to hide when answering questions from the press that they do not sympathize with.
According to Mr. Izquierdo told us your E-mail, “I have visited and I have discussed all these issues with each and every one of the current and past commissioners, not with Mayor Carlos Giménez, because he as Commissioner, and now as mayor, has never accepted a meeting with us “Independent Limousine Drivers”. We are willing to testify before any court or anti-corruption unit about this shameful and abusive situation that “all professional drivers in Miami-Dade” of taxis and limousines have been suffering through”
In other articles we have stated that the service UBER is insuperable, but their regulation must be done with justice and ethics. In line with the limousine and taxi industries, that way everyone can compete; anything else would be favors for friends, and that’s corruption.
