Romance at City Hall - a Cheap Date - Politico Chasers Know what's worse than sitting next to unhappy women at a business luncheon? Sitting across the aisle from them at a City Commission Meeting. It was 9a.m. on a Thursday morning in Miami. Outside City Hall the hot sun was beating down on picturesque Biscayne Bay. The bustling activity of people and automobiles indicated a Commission Meeting was about to convene. "They kept staring at me and mumbling Patti later told her colleague. "I heard... Sign in to see full entry.