Only two of the five Republican candidates in the congressional primary for District 26 showed up for the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations debate Thursday — which was two too many for this group. Whoever wasn’t a campaign plant in the audience was probably a Democrat anyway. Ladra could probably count the Republicans on one […]
The Facebook page for the recall effort against Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez was created Wednesday. By Thursday night, it had 1,688 likes. “Our safety is not a game! LIKE and SHARE to support a call for a RESPONSIBLE County Mayor,” was the last post published on the page (like here), which is covered […]
For months, there have been whispers about a possible recall of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Tainted Boy” Gimenez, who was put in the county’s top position through the recall of his predecessor Carlos Alvarez. This week, the firefighter father of one of the young men killed in a boating accident on the Fourth of July said […]
The horrible, accidental death of four people on a Fourth of July holiday boat ride become part of the debate earlier this month on the Miami-Dade budget and what seems like the skewered administrative priorities of Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez, who cut the rescue boat from our fire department services two years ago. Now, […]
Looks like former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera is back in the race he said he wanted no part of just weeks ago. Or that’s what one would surmise from a robocall delivered to some Republican voters in District 26 Wednesday. Several sources told Ladra that they had received phone calls from a recording of […]
By BRANDON LARRABEETHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE — Former Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday unveiled one of the first concrete policy proposals in his campaign to reclaim his old job, promising to use the state’s contracting power to boost wages for some workers and bar discrimination against gay and transgender Floridians.Crist, a former Republican running as […]
If you live in District 8 and you missed Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell or her campaign workers coming by to knock on your house, you might have gotten this door hanger with photos of the commission vice chair in action. Bell at a groundbreaking, golden shovel in hand. Yay. Bell hugging a senior cittizen. Awwww. […]
Que cara mas dura tiene Congressman Joe Garcia. Loosely translated, it means he is two-faced. But I like the Cuban version of “hard face” better. Because Garcia’s has to be made of stone to face a true Cuban dissident, the wife of a man who was held in Cuban prisons for 20 years, and pretend to […]
More than 187,000 absentee ballots were mailed to Miami-Dade voters Tuesday morning. They should arrive in mailboxes by the end of the week. It’s more than 190,000 if you count the overseas absentees sent earlier this month. That’s up from the 165,000 or so ABs that went out in the 2012 primary, which was more […]
More details were released after we first broke the story on Assistant Miami City Attorney Veronica “Little Miss Ultra” Diaz, the party girl and subject of two ethical investigations who has taken a leave of absence while she runs for judge. And, from what Ladra hears, more is yet to come. The Miami-Dade Commission on […]