Miami Herald reporter has history of socialist publications, helps target GOP mayor with complaints

MIAMI – One of the Miami Herald’s “investigative reporters” has a stacked, socialist history who now seems to be leveraging her position to help target Republican Mayor Francis Suarez with ethics allegations that continue to get dismissed.

Sarah Lynn Blaskey has not only written an entire book attacking former President Donald Trump as a “grifter” and has an extensive pro-socialist history, but through her activist reporting, has helped propel a slew of unsuccessful complaints against the Miami mayor.

The accusations on Suarez centered around him allegedly receiving unethical gifts and a protection detail from Miami. Activist Thomas Kennedy filed the complaints, and Blaskey has been at the forefront of the Herald’s targeting of Suarez.

The Florida Commission on Ethics recently rejected two complaints: one regarding accusations Suarez exploited the public dollar for security detail while campaigning for president, and another, primarily a focus of Blaskey’s, regarding Suarez’s attendance of 2023’s Formula 1 race in Miami.

Despite it being dropped by the state commission, Blaskey pushed on, arguing the commission didn’t do enough to investigate the complaint, which centered around who provided he and others with him VIP passes.

One concern was that Suarez allegedly hadn’t paid back billionaire Ken Griffin for the tickets. However, Suarez did repay Griffin – but Blaskey infers that Suarez only paid Griffin back because of her reporting.

Miami-Dade County’s own ethics commission also dismissed a Kennedy-filed complaint centering around the mayor attending VIP sporting events because he had no personal knowledge.

Suarez took a victory lap on activist reporters like Blaskey, saying he was exonerated and slamming the “vicious and politically motivated attacks.”

“This malicious complaint was made by a Democratic activist with no evidence besides inaccurate news stories published by The Miami Herald and represents a significant reprimand of their reporting,” Suarez said.

Blaskey is still going after Suarez despite being unsuccessful thus far.

Perhaps a source of the Miami Herald reporter’s rabid anti-Republican bias stems from her involvement in various “Occupy” movements and writing a long slate of pro-socialist literature.

“I think the Occupy movement is incredibly important because it can help link all of these causes together in a really important way,” Blaskey has previously said.

“It’s the idea of the 99 percent versus the 1 percent, and that simple fact permeates through these other basic struggles we’re having, like Scott Walker being fed legislation from the Koch brothers,” she said. “When I was in D.C. and with Occupy Wall Street (in early October), it really opened my eyes to the fact that we’re not fighting these little bubble fights all over the place, we’re actually fighting little battles of the same war for the average Joes.”

She wrote for the Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review as well, two socialist publications.

On top of that, Blaskey wrote for The Progressive Magazine and Upside Down World, two very left-leaning outlets.