Francis Suarez
President, Alpha Wave Global. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Francis Suarez served as the 43rd Mayor of Miami from 2017 to 2025 and President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, gaining national prominence for courting tech firms and venture capitalists to South Florida. He also ran as a candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary before entering private investment and legal advisory roles.
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2appearances
18statements
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31%fully supported
21said about them ↓ Everything Francis Suarez said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Suarez: Miami can become first major US city with zero homelessness
“We want to be the first major American city to have zero homeless, and we think we can get there.”
Suarez: Miami has lowest unemployment and highest wage growth in US
“We have the lowest unemployment in America. We have the highest median wage growth in America. We, I lowered taxes to the lowest level in history, and we've seen a 140% growth in nine years.”
Suarez: Miami lowered taxes while tripling city budget to $1.5B
“I lowered taxes to the lowest level in history, and I took the city in 2009 as a councilman out of bankruptcy. So I got it in bankruptcy. We decided this is sort of the doge before doge. We decided not to raise taxes. We cut costs. We cut, you know, we didn't …”
Miami ranks first nationally in wage growth and tech job migration
“We have 1.4% unemployment. We have, we're number one in the nation in wage growth. We're number one in the nation in tech jobs. We're number one in tech job migration. I think we've moved two trillion AUM in the last 18 months. And our VC pipeline grew by 200%…”
Miami reduced homelessness by 90% using a decentralized treatment network
“We reduce homelessness by about 90% with that network.”
Suarez: Miami unsheltered homelessness dropped to 11-year low of 546
“So, in homeless specifically, we are at an eleven-year low. We did our census, we do two census a year. We do one in January, one in the summer, and our January census had us at an eleven-year low at 546 homeless, unsheltered homeless in the entire city of Mia…”
Suarez: Miami on track for record-low homicides under 24 in 2025
“Last year we had 27. OK, we had 220 in 1980. This year we're trending below the 24. So we may this may be the safest year in the history recorded history of Miami.”
Suarez: Miami leverages public housing dollars at a 15:1 to 20:1 ratio
“Housing costs have certainly gone up significantly, and we do everything we can to leverage public dollars and public assets like land to try to build projects at a 15 to one or 20 to one leverage rate. So for a hundred million dollars invested, we'll get two …”
Suarez: Building permits could be processed instantly with current technology
“It should be done instantly, and it could literally be done instantly with a technology that we already have available to us today.”
Miami's budget doubled while keeping tax rates at 1960s lows
“We keep taxes as low as humanly possible. And shocker, our budget has doubled in size. Since we have kept taxes to the 19 sixties lows”
Miami's homicide rate dropped 23% last year, and 40% this year
“Our homicide rate went down by 23% last year, this year it's down by 40% from the 23% of last year.”
The City of Miami currently has exactly 510 homeless individuals
“In Miami, in the city, which is one of 34 cities in the county, we have 510. Homeless right now in the city.”
Suarez: Miami is ranked happiest and healthiest city in America
“We're ranked the happiest city in America, the healthiest city in America.”
Suarez: Getting a building permit takes up to 18 months in most US cities
“It takes to get a permit on a home in most places in America, or on a building in most places in America, you know, six months, nine months, a year and a half.”
Suarez would strongly consider serving as a US ambassador
“If the president called me and said, you know, I want you to be the US ambassador to, you know, a country that I have a passion to help. You know, in terms of the United States, in terms of their relationship and world peace and things of that nature which I t…”
Suarez: FC Barcelona moved its Americas headquarters from New York to Miami
“Two days ago, we announced that FC Barcelona moved their headquarters from New York to Miami, right?”
Suarez: Brightline rail was entirely private and owned its right-of-way
“No, they had the right of way. So it was totally private.”
The other half of the tape: Francis Suarez's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 20 times in 9 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
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| ALL-INLEDGER | President, Alpha Wave Global | 2 | 18 | 31% 4/13 | full record on All-In → |