This is the story about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — if Snow White was a Democrat princess who empowered her dwarfs and made them feel big… just until the prince came and his kiss awoke her and took her away to state politics, leaving the little guys to mine for votes all by […]
Thank goodness for the Miami-Dade Democratic Party! Our loyal, local blues turned what could have been a ho-hum year of mid-term elections with very few challenges at the state level into a full House partisan battle. Que fun! Now it’s a party. Dade Dems Chairwoman Annette Taddeo-Goldstein will publicly announce Tuesday, after a press release […]
His Coconut Grove house is safe for now. A judge ruled on Friday that Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo can keep his Morris Lane casa off the auction block until it is determined that it is not a legally homesteaded property. U.S. Marshals posted a notice of levy on the multi-million house last month in an […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, who was appointed by the governor and has never been elected, has a challenger in this November’s election. School teacher Bryan Paz-Hernandez, former president of the West Kendall Dems — now an NPA — filed paperwork Wednesday intending to run. “I’m tired of the traffic and high cost of housing,” Paz-Hernandez […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla has a new challenger as of Thursday when Marvin Tapia, brand ambassador and shareholder of the Salty Donut and chairman of the Miami-Dade Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board, filed to run in the city’s November election. And it’s too late for the city commission to cut his house out […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo can move back into his fancy, posh Coconut Grove house if the city gives final approval to the redistricting maps as they have been drawn, which divides the Grove into three separate districts. The Morris Lane house Carollo reportedly moved out of just to run for office in 2017 has been […]
Qualifying came and went quietly last month and we ended up with quite a few challenges in the Florida House and some interesting contests in four of the five open seats. But nothing like what we were promised. There is no huge blue wave in sight, folks. More like a sky blue splash. To begin […]
The Miami-Dade Democratic Party has big egg on their face in the wake of qualifying last week that left the one incumbent who was most important to challenge this year completely unfazed: State Rep. Jose Oliva — who brought guns to our schools, ladies and gentlemen — was reelected already without even a sigh. Duysevi […]
If there is one local state elected we need to replace this coming November, please let it be State Rep. Jose Oliva, the Miami Lakes Republican who sponsored the odious school “safety bill” (pffft) that doesn’t ban assault rifles but arms teachers in schools, instead. This is the man who will direct the House agenda […]
Everyone is concentrated on the special elections this summer and there’s more than a year to go before the primaries for the state legislative races next year. But a few open seats have hopefuls planning early — none more than in House District 115, the seat vacated by termed-out State Rep. Michael Bileca, which happens to […]