If he comes to Miami-Dade County, I would expect that he wears the mask because that's what we make him do down here.
Carlos Gimenez
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Carlos Gimenez is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district since January 3, 2021. Prior to his election to Congress, he served as the Mayor of Miami-Dade County from July 1, 2011, until November 17, 2020. During his tenure as mayor, Gimenez focused on issues such as economic development, public safety, and infrastructure improvements in the county.
I'm satisfied with what I'm seeing, but again, there are always going to be some people that will not heed the warnings, and so, you know, that's all we can do.
My advice is like I tell everybody is, A, have three days of water and food, you need to be self-sufficient for about three days because if we do have a major storm coming through, we may not be able to get to you for about three days.
Well, the problem that we have is that because the storm may be going from south to north, it's difficult for the state or the federal government basically to, you know, pre-locate so that they can come down quickly and that's an issue…
Now a great number of our gas stations actually have emergency power. You couldn't get any food because none of our supermarkets had emergency power. Now a great number of our supermarkets have emergency power.
Miami-Dade County is very well prepared. We've had experience with hurricanes, you know, forever here, and we've learned a lot from Hurricane Andrew. So we're much better prepared than before. Our state partners and our federal partners…
We're not in the business of enforcing immigration law per se, we have a lot of other things that we have to police in Miami-Dade County.
I'm not going to put millions of dollars in federal aid in jeopardy simply because we want the federal government to reimburse us for maintaining these prisoners.
We expect to be starting our services, normalizing life here in Miami-Dade County as much as possible -- as early as possible tomorrow morning.





