Giving yet another indication that he is not a serious candidate for the Miami-Dade mayor’s seat, Alex Otaola, an activist, actor and podcaster with a penchant for the outrageous and a large Cuban-American following, chickened out of a meet-and-greet forum Monday that he had previously agreed to. Otaola told the president of the Kendall Federation […]
(This is a translation of this story published days ago.) El Departamento de Elecciones de Miami-Dade ha rechazado cerca de 13.000 peticiones (o una abrumadora mayoría de ellas) recopiladas por el grupo Accountable Coral Gables para incluir tres preguntas en la boleta electoral en Coral Gables este noviembre. Y huele mal. El comité de acción […]
With about two weeks to go before absentee or mail-in ballots are sent to voters, residents in West Kendall got back-to-back mailers Friday and Saturday pushing for the re-election of Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Not from her campaign. Not from her political action committee, Our Democracy. The mailers came from the Florida Democratic Party […]
Survey is out — just as the mayor faces re-election Affordable housing? Traffic? Well-paying jobs? Finding reliable child care or elderly programs? How about all of the above? Miami-Dade County wants to know what residents need and/or lack most and are working with the Florida International University Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center to conduct the […]
The first mailer for Miami-Dade School Board District 7 went out last week, for Mary Blanco, an incumbent who has never gotten a vote in her life because she was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The ad touts endorsements from Lt. Gov. Jeannett Nuñez and Sen. Marco Rubio, because she is a political appointment, after […]
Ruling says it was part of his job Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz on Thursday dismissed the civil lawsuit against former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — who faces 14 political corruption charges on an unrelated case — in the alleged shakedown of the Rickenbacker Marina owner in 2020. She said in her […]
Updated: The Miami-Dade Elections Department has rejected close to 13,000 petitions — or an overwhelming majority of signatures — collected by the Accountable Coral Gables group to put three questions on the November ballot. And something smells fishy. The political action committee, chaired by Mayor Vince Lago‘s ally and former candidate Alex Bucelo, turned in […]
A trapeze artist in a war with the county who is running a symbolic mayoral campaign against Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was told last week that he can’t have his nickname on the ballot because it “is being used to mislead voters.” Miguel “El Skipper” Quintero has gone by that name for years, he […]
Suspended elected is charged with healthcare fraud The Hialeah Council is poised to appoint someone to replace Councilwoman Angelica Pacheco, who was arrested last week on healthcare fraud charges and on Tuesday became the latest Miami-Dade elected to be suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis. And wannabes are already jockeying for pole position. Mayor Esteban Bovo […]
Former Miami-Dade School Board Member Martin Karp, who is running again (who knew?), crashed a candidate forum Wednesday that was hosted by Hayley Ross, who is running in the same district vacated by Lucia Baez-Geller, who is running for Congress, and has been campaigning since the beginning of the year. Karp, who filed two weeks […]