After reelection, Suarez plans to continue efforts to turn Miami into cryptocurrency hub

MIAMI – Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s reelection Tuesday means he’ll get to steer the U.S. Convention of Mayors beginning January and proceed his efforts to draw cryptocurrency innovators.

Suarez, the son of the town’s first Cuban-American mayor, additionally deliberate to obtain his paycheck in Bitcoin as a part of his dedication to technological progress within the Magic Metropolis.

On Wednesday, after a late-night get together along with his supporters at The Wharf on the river, the 44-year-old lawyer delivered a speech about his landslide victory at Metropolis Corridor.

“That for me is a validation of the work that I’ve finished. It’s a validation of the imaginative and prescient that I’ve for the way forward for this metropolis, ” Suarez stated.

The mayor’s inaction after Miami Police Chief Artwork Acevedo despatched him a memo accusing three commissioners of official misconduct and of interfering along with his police reform efforts didn’t harm his marketing campaign fundraising.

Commissioners terminated Acevedo, simply months after Suarez had touted him because the “Michael Jordan” of police chiefs. Commissioner Joe Carollo, who led the trouble to fireside Acevedo, additionally had loads of marketing campaign funding and was reelected.

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“The press typically believes they type of have the heartbeat of the group when actually is usually reverse,” Suarez stated in regards to the information protection of Acevedo’s ouster.

One in every of Suarez’s opponents was Frank Pichel, a non-public investigator who was arrested in early October for impersonating a police officer. In his memo, Acevedo reported Pichel was Carollo’s affiliate.

Afternoon report