Jeb Bush, Jr., son of the former governor and current GOP contender for president, is taking time out from his busy schedule campaigning for good ol’ Dad so he can fundraise for someone else: John Couriel, who is running for House seat 114 to replace the termed-out Eric Fresen in 2016. “I am honored to have […]
As we get closer to the September budget hearings on Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s annual budget, several commissioners are getting ready to make some suggested changes. And the most drastic of these is a call for a tax cut from Commissioner Juan Zapata. Zapata met with Gimenez Wednesday morning to ask for a lower tax […]
Relentless for Progress has $1.4 million to spend on propaganda to push the agenda for Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, who want to elect a slate of pocket commissioners to do their bidding. But they can’t afford a proofreader? A video posted on the web Tuesday by the political action committee […]
DEVELOPING STORY: Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi has sued the his own town twice to recoup $3.2 million in alleged legal fees from both his fight against federal bribery charges and is fight to get back into Town Hall. Pizzi’s team of attorneys filed two lawsuits Wednesday. One seeks $700,000 for the civil case he won […]
Animal advocates who passed the Pets’ Trust Initiative referendum nearly three years ago and have been met with resistance from the county to execute what is basically the people’s will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. And that light’s name is Commissioner Xavier Suarez. Suarez will present the Metropolitan Services Committee […]
The shady Miami Beach PAC that has collected more than $1.3 million in donations from contractors, vendors and developers with interests in the city has mailed an attack mailer aimed at candidate Mark Weithorn, husband of Commissioner Deede Weithorn, the termed-out eleccted who is the first person that rose questions about obvious conflict of interest when […]
Finally! Someone has stepped up to the plate to challenge Miami Beach Mayor Philip “Mr. Ego” Levine. Ladra’s hero is attorney David Wieder, chairman of the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board. Former Commissioner and mayoral candidate Michael Gongora, who almost got into a runoff with Levine in 2013, first announced it on his newsletter Tuesday. “He […]
A newbie commission candidate in Miami Beach is taking a cue from the growing public disgust over a shady PAC financed by special interests and championed by Mayor Philip Levine and its chairman, Commissioner Jonah Wolfson. Mark Samuelian, who is running in group VI, made the Relentless for Progress PAC part of his campaign over […]
Two electeds in Miami Beach are scrambling to defend themselves after their shady political action committee — the one taking $100,000 checks from vendors and developers who work in the city — came under fire from the local media. The latest salvo is a full page ad in the Miami Herald — the back page, which […]
After a 15-year hiatus, former Coral Gables Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli is planning a comeback to City Hall — as the handpicked successor to Mayor Jim Cason, who has said he won’t run again (though we’ve heard that before). The rumors have been escalating for weeks as Valdes-Fauli, who was tossed out by voters in 2001 after […]