Mayor Francis X. Suarez of Miami has visited early primary states in recent weeks, mulling a Republican presidential run built on the premise that his in-vogue city has boomed in difficult times — “the Miami miracle,” he calls it.
Techies have flocked to the city from San Francisco.
Testimony from a parade of former public employees portrayed City Hall as a toxic workplace, rife with dysfunction.
Miami has long been a city of confounding narratives, the airbrushed image it projects to outsiders often obscuring the complicated realities that lie beneath.
But these days, the contrast between the Miami brand and the goings-on at City Hall seems especially stark.
Persons:
Francis X, Suarez, mulling, ”, Techies, Joe Carollo
Organizations:
Suarez of Miami, Republican, Bankers, Miami, City
Locations:
Miami, San Francisco, New York