Many 305 political observers thought the only commission race that was going to be fun this year was in District 8 — where incumbent Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell is facing a real challenge from political neophyte Daniella Levine Cava, who moved into the district just so she could run. But the race in District 12, which […]
A negative mailer arrived in some county mailboxes recently calling former Miami-Dade School Board Member and one-time State Rep. Renier Diaz de la Portilla — who is running for Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge — a three-time loser. “Three strikes and you’re out,” the mailer said, referring to Baby DLP’s trifecta of losses against Marta Perez (School Board, […]
State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez‘s mailer arrived in Ladra’s mailbox Wednesday, urging me to give him my vote for Miami-Dade Property Appraiser. Also urging me from their smiling photographed faces were Sen. Anitere Flores, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah “Potty Mouth” Wolfson, State Sens. Oscar Braynon and Dwight Bullard and State Rep. Daphne Campbell. But when my […]
It looks like former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera still has some breath in him as his on-again-off-again campaign is on again. Rivera unleashed a second round of robocalls on Republican absentee voters Monday that, again, poked at the Miami Herald rather than any one of the four other candidates on the Aug. 26 primary […]
For the second week in a row, Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo brought out a big gun in the primary that he’s suddenly paying attention to, after ignoring it for months, with a reminder of his endorsement from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But that backing is soft and squishy. Because Bush already sorta apologized […]
GOP activist Mimi Planas, a community council member in District 10, is getting married in October. The president of the Miami Log Cabin Republicans will have to travel to New Mexico, however, to wed her fiance, Isis Martinez. That’s because the concept of marriage equality still hasn’t taken hold in Florida, where, in fact, the current […]
Our mailboxes this week are stuffed with mailers big and small for candidates from the congressional race in District 26 to county commission contests to municipal matchups to judicial jousts to the battle for the property appraiser’s office. But one mailer stands out — because it does not promote any particular candidate. “Absentee voter fraud […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo, who is already the GOP establishment choice, got some major props Saturday from Congressman Greg Walden (R-Oregon), when the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s campaign arm, gave the weekly Republican radio address. But Walden has apparently fast-forwarded to the general election in which the GOP hopes to unseat Democrat […]
By BRANDON LARRABEETHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE — A Leon County judge on Friday ordered the Legislature to redraw the state’s congressional districts over the next two weeks, likely requiring a special session and potentially throwing this month’s primary elections into chaos.Circuit Judge Terry Lewis also ordered Secretary of State Ken Detzner and […]
Whew! That was a close one! An assistant city of Miami attorney issued a report Thursday that said his boss and colleagues did nothing wrong when they accepted comp tickets to downtown Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, at least for the past two years in a row. Even though the Auditor General said that the city officials — […]