On the same day, Fried, using her power as the state's commissioner of agriculture and consumer affairs, suspended the concealed-weapons permits of seven January 6 insurrectionists. "This is absurd political pandering from the governor of a state that has experienced some of the worst mass shootings in our country's history, in a nation where we have the highest rates of gun violence in the world," she stated. Her efforts and means may not always be polite or popular, but Surfside, you want her on that wall, you need her on that resident demagogue Ron DeSantis announced, in the midst of our national gun-violence epidemic, that he wanted to make it legal for basically any yahoo to pack heat in public without a permit, it was gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried who immediately smacked him down. "They just put this entire town in a cage with the snake and nobody wants to look," she says. So Salzhauer is bird-dogging the new commission like never before, calling out every potential conflict of interest and attempt to skirt setback rules or height limits. Salzhauer says the new slate of commissioners is more pro-development than ever, especially the new vice mayor, Jeffrey Rose, a prominent home builder in the sleepy seaside burg just north of Miami Beach. "I don't have the ability to take it easy when someone is taking a shit in my living room," she said with characteristic bluntness. After the loss, Salzhauer indicated that she wanted to take a break from city meetings, but that turned out to be impossible. Then came the elections in March, and both she and her nemesis lost their seats in a near clean sweep by newcomers.
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But her true calling at city hall was holding developers at bay while acting as the chief dissenter to Mayor Charles Burkett, whom she (in)famously flipped the double bird during a Zoom meeting in 2020.
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A year ago, Eliana Salzhauer might have been named "Best Politician." She was then an elected commissioner in Surfside during the town's most trying time - the aftermath of the Champlain Towers condo collapse.