Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo, who was hand-picked by the GOP establishment to pit against Congressman Joe Garcia in November, won by a near mandate 47% of the vote in the five-way District 26 Republican primary Tuesday. He only with a huge absentee ballot margin in Miami Dade and yet, more people voted […]
UPDATED: The final votes had not even been counted, but the hundreds of people gathered at the Palmetto Bay Village Center for the victory party for Daniella Levine Cava — a political neophyte who beat powerful Vice Chair Lynda Bell — danced anyway to a live band as elected celebrities started to pour in. And danced. […]
Judging from absentee ballots and early voting numbes, which have already been tallied, it was a good night for only three of the Miami-Dade Commission incumbents. Vice Chair Lynda Bell could be singing the blues. Bell, who was the only one facing a true challenge from neophyte social service activist Daniella Levine Cava, had an early lead […]
Is Ladra the only suspicious and jaded soul who thinks that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez scheduled a budget town hall meeting on Election Night on purpose? You know? So nobody would show up? The fourth stop on the mayor’s “Best Case/Worst Case Scenario” budget tour begins at 6 p.m. tonight at the Palmetto […]
More dishonest tactics from an increasingly desperate Miami-Dade incumbent Commissioner Lynda Bell? Among the poll workers who showed up at some of the polling locations in District 8 Tuesday were paid burly men wearing black t-shirts that made them look like police officers supporting her. But they’re not. One of the men posted at St. […]
While people are just getting up to go vote today in one congressional and several county, judicial and state races, it looks like the winners have already been chosen. That’s because there were nearly 83,800 absentee ballots returned and another 29,200 cast at early voting. A total of 112,981 voters have already made their picks […]
If it doesn’t cost him this primary today, the fact that Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo is hiding his client list under his wife’s skirt will cost him the general election in November. And it should. It’s sort of scary to think of sending someone to Washington who might be using his elected […]
Coral Gables could name a new city manager very soon, and while there are five finalists, sources tell Ladra there is only one that has the inside track. My money is on Former Doral and South Miami City Manager Yvonne Soler-McKinley, who, sources say,was among the very first names floated to Ladra when Pat Salerno […]
It’s been difficult to jump on the Miami-Dade School Board races because it’s a territory that Ladra doesn’t walk often, and we’ve been busy with a congressional and county races as well as a recall and funky county budget. There is likely good reason to replace both incumbents who were challenged. But Ladra thinks its […]
Many people are still trying to figure out why Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo was anointed early on as the chosen one to pit against Democrat Congressman Joe Garcia in November. Why was this wet-behind-the-ears, lame-o Miami-Dade School Board member and professional lobbyist with very little actual public service experience declared the favorite of our local and […]