Ousted Miami Mayor Shows Up Unannounced To Confront Successor

The city’s newly installed mayor claims a full moon must have been behind the surprise visit he received at home from Miami’s former mayor, who showed up to confront him about office furniture.

Xavier Suarez arrived unannounced Friday at the home of Mayor Joe Carollo, two days after Carollo was restored as Miami mayor by an appeals court that said Suarez’s win was tainted by voter fraud.

Suarez wanted to discuss Carollo’s statement to reporters about the appearance of the mayor’s office, which Carollo said had little furniture, no file cabinets and hardly any paperwork from the city’s business in the past four months.

“He went on and on about furniture, about stuff in a warehouse,” Carollo said. “That he had a bill from a moving van for $1,600. That he was going to dump all the stuff in front of City Hall. He made no sense. My kids were extremely upset. We didn’t understand and we just wanted to get this man, the best way we could, out of our front door and out of our property.

“Maybe it had to do with the fact that it’s Friday the 13th and there’s a full moon,” Carollo said.

But Suarez said his visit was “cordial” and the two had a “nice, nice discussion.”

“I went to show the mayor the card from the movers, to tell him the stuff is still in storage, that he could have the city manager, his lawyer Kendall Coffey or anyone he wanted to look at it. I wanted to go over there and defuse any antagonism.”

It’s not the first time Suarez has shown up unannounced.

Late one night in December he went to an elderly woman’s home to talk with her about a critical letter she had written him. The woman - who went to the door with a .38-caliber revolver - refused to let Suarez in.