UPDATED: David Custin wasn’t always so successful in Miami Beach. Before he played a crucial role in electing Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioners Joy Malakoff and Michael Grieco in 2013, Custin was really just a glorified mailboy-turned-campaign-consultant who dabbled sometimes as a lobbyist. He only had one client, the red light camera American Traffic Solutions, Miami Beach […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has become such a caricature, that there are now at least four parody profiles of him in social media. Maybe more by the time you read this, the way they are proliferating every day. The jokes started on twitter with Mayor Levine’s Ego @MayorEgo, which posts the alternative (read: funny […]
It’s an informal, unscientific and likely flawed survey, done online via email blasts through Survey Monkey, a free site that provides such services, but it gives us what could be the first glimpse of what will happen in Miami Beach Nov. 3. Despite all the bad press Mayor Philip Levine has gotten lately — what with the […]
UPDATED: This week, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine was on the defense about everything, it seemed. He’s taking a PR hit on massive flooding he’s boasted about fixing in glitzy TV commercials paid for by shaken down vendors and developers through a shady PAC. And he’s been questioned by his coveted viejito voters for his […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez filed to run for re-election Thursday and it was treated like news. Didn’t everybody know this was coming? He’s been running for mayor practically since he was elected mayor in 2011 after the recall of Carlos Alvarez. For at least two months, the campaign has stepped it up with ads paid […]
The city of Opa-Locka apparently is not big enough for two political crooks. Last month, former Homestead Mayor and Miami-Dade County Manager Steve Shiver — who has been accused of squandering millions in CRA funds for Homestead redevelopment after Hurricane Andrew, some of it going to clients he represented after he left the city — […]
The second fundraiser for the open state House seat vacated by Erik Fresen after next year happened last week in the private office of a sitting county commissioner and former mayor of South Miami. Jose Pazos had his campaign kick off at his office building, home to the business he shares with his partner, former South Miami […]
In what may be one of the most stark contrasts between the two Miami men who would be president — not counting the crazy millionaire who is seriously deluded — young Jeb Bush supporters get Jebby, the candidate’s son, to rally them at South Florida events while Sen. Marco Rubio‘s fans get the real McCoy. […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine was at Rebecca Towers last week, courting the elderly Hispanic voters that helped propel him to victory two years ago. He also took his whole slate of candidates — Ricky Arriola, John Elizabeth Aleman and Betsy Perez — who he wants elected so they can rubber stamp his decisions. But […]
The Miami Police union has endorsed Teresa Sarnoff, wife of Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, in the upcoming election to replace him. That’s not so surprising since Sarnoff last year approved raises, some as high as $10,000 more a year. What is a surprise is that they would be so obvious about the quid pro quo, giving […]