Miami Herald · Feb 8, 2018
Ex Marlin David Samson calls Gimenez 'not a good mayor' | Miami Herald
Former Marlins president David Samson unloaded on Miami-Dade’s mayor Thursday amid a fight over profit sharing, saying Carlos Gimenez was “not a good mayor” who had a “vendetta against a short Jewish guy” while refusing to support his hometown baseball team.
In an interview on Dan Le Batard’s 790 The Ticket radio show, Samson criticized Gimenez for virtually boycotting Marlins games while mayor (including a no-show during Miami’s first-ever All-Star Game last year). Former owner Jeffrey Loria recently told Miami-Dade it is entitled to no revenue from his $1.2 billion sale of the Marlins, despite a 2009 profit-sharing deal tied to the county building Loria a stadium in Little Havana.