Days before thousands of Miami-Dade voters get absentee ballots for a number of key races in the August 26 primary, the Police Benevolent Association announced is a $10,000 reward Thursday to anyone who brings them information on absentee ballot fraud that leads to an arrest and conviction. The concern they have, shared by others, is that […]
Attention, Little Miss Ultra! This video was made for you! And just in time for the primary, too! The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust is selling a three-disc set of its Political Campaign Ethics Conference held earlier this year. It’s like a crash course in government accountability and integrity and includes segments on absentee […]
UPDATED: A little birdie with inside info told Ladra this afternoon that Ballard Partners, a firm that is desperate to strengthen their new Miami office, stole Chip from the county with an offer he couldn’t refuse. Ballard is the number one lobbying firm in the state, according to Florida Trend, and is currently working on the Genting […]
Ladra never thought she would see the day when a 305 politico would actually campaign on the fact that he or she is not Cuban. You avoid bringing attention to that, don’t you? In fact, I’ve seen it used against non-Cuban candidates or even just not as Cuban candidates. As in, “I’m more Cuban than the other […]
By MARGIE MENZELTHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 22, 2014 — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist announced last week that his running mate would be Annette Taddeo, chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party and a political consultant’s dream: a Hispanic working mom who runs a successful small business and hosted her own show, Taddeo2Day, on […]
The long-anticipated showdown between Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell and challenger Daniella Levine Cava came and went Monday night as each worked hard to turn the heat up on the other at the Kendall Federation of Homeowners debate. Levine hit Bell on the recent service cuts in police and libraries and the battle to balance the […]
There were no fisticuffs, but it was lively and lines were definitely drawn in the debate last week between the five candidates for Miami-Dade Property Appraiser — a juicy $196,000-a-year job overseeing the assessment of property values, which is the main source of revenue (read: cash cow) for the county budget as well as all […]
While she may have some ultra questionable ethics breaches in her past — steering work to her boyfriend and scoring music festival tickets for herself — Miami Assistant City Attorney Veronica “Little Miss Ultra” Diaz should be held to a higher level of honesty at least in her judicial campaign. She certainly shouldn’t be lying […]
Days after former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera jumped into the Congressional Republican primary for District 26, Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo — the establishment choice from months earlier — did a poll that cost him $35,000. And why haven’t we heard a peep about it? Curbelo did not return a phone call to […]
Call me cynical. But doesn’t it seem like Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell — who is fighting for her political life in the most heated commission race this year — has had a slew of publicity stunt events in recent days? There’s no doubt that Bell is active year round, taking part in community events, working at […]