{"id":319587,"date":"2011-03-18T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/uncle-luke-likely-to-become-miamis-mayor\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:06:33","slug":"uncle-luke-likely-to-become-miamis-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/uncle-luke-likely-to-become-miamis-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Luke Likely to Become Miami&#8217;s Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboombox.com\/2011\/03\/17\/uncle-luke-likely-to-become-miamis-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\nTheboombox<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n After a recall vote kicked Miami mayor Carlos Alvarez out of office yesterday, 2 Live Crew leader Luther &#8220;Uncle Luke&#8221; Campbell has become a favorite to win the position in the upcoming election. <\/p>\n<p>The once-controversial rapper and label executive has a chance after Norman Braman, a billionaire businessman, orchestrated the first successful recall in the history of Dade County. More than 88 percent of voters wanted Alvarez out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I take Mr. Alvarez&#8217;s job, I&#8217;ll review the county budget with a fine-toothed comb,&#8221; wrote Luke in the Miami New Times, where he&#8217;s been publishing columns over the past year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I ran my record company, every year we would first go over what was making revenue for us and beef that side up. Then we would cut the areas where we were not generating revenue. The first place we looked was payroll. I&#8217;ll do the same with the county budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_473-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201103\/145641.php\" title=\"Uncle Luke Likely to Become Miami's Mayor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uncle Luke Likely to Become Miami&#8217;s Mayor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Theboombox : \u00a0\u00a0 After a recall vote kicked Miami mayor Carlos Alvarez out of office yesterday, 2 Live Crew leader Luther &#8220;Uncle Luke&#8221; Campbell has become a favorite to win the position in the upcoming election. The once-controversial rapper and label executive has a chance after Norman Braman, a billionaire businessman, orchestrated the first successful recall in the history of Dade County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uncle Luke Likely to Become Miami&#039;s Mayor - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/uncle-luke-likely-to-become-miamis-mayor\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Uncle Luke Likely to Become Miami&#039;s Mayor - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Theboombox : \u00a0\u00a0 After a recall vote kicked Miami mayor Carlos Alvarez out of office yesterday, 2 Live Crew leader Luther &quot;Uncle Luke&quot; Campbell has become a favorite to win the position in the upcoming election. 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