The Miami City Commission voted Thursday to re-include newly elected Commissioner Miguel Gabela's family home back into his district following a rare veto from Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who invalidated an earlier vote from December on the grounds that Gabela personally benefited from it, creating an 'appearance of impropriety.'
This time around, Gabela recused himself from voting on the matter. That recusal landed a day after Jose Arrojo, executive director of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust, recommended to the Ethics Commission that it issue a formal opinion stating that a vote by Gabela to override the mayor's veto would violate the voting conflict provision in the county's ethics ordinance. (The Ethics Commission deferred the matter.)
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