UPDATED: Once again, the city of Miami has weaponized its code enforcement office to go after a perceived “enemy.” This time it’s activist attorney David Winker who has won several lawsuits for residents and is currently representing the group trying to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo. How long do you think before Winker sues them on […]
The smart money is on a November runoff in Miami-Dade District 5 between incumbent Commissioner Eileen Higgins and retread has-been Renier Diaz de la Portilla, thanks to Miguel Soliman. While Soliman filed before Diaz de la Portilla, the youngest brother of the political dynasty has enviable name recognition and is expected to beat Soliman handily, […]
Not everyone is doing terribly in the economic crisis fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The four viable Miami-Dade mayoral candidates have raised more than $12 million between them, and spent at least $9.5 million through July 31, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed Friday with the Miami-Dade Elections Department. The biggest bank belongs […]
A new third party poll by some independent business interest group has Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava leading in the mayoral race by a very small margin. And number two on her heels, according to sources who got the exact same poll results, is Commissioner Esteban Bovo. So we may actually be looking at a […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara Jordan — who has now had her independent police review panel vetoed by the mayor twice and has failed to get a majority to overturn it — needed eight of her colleagues to support her motion Tuesday to take the issue to voters in a ballot question. She only got seven […]
Miami City Commissioners want their county counterparts on Tuesday to reconsider their paltry offering from the $474 million federal CARES cash pie they got — $30 million to be shared between all 34 municipalities in Miami-Dade — to aid in the COVID-19 crisis recovery and resuscitate the economy. Or else they could take the county […]
While Ladra has already made some endorsements and predictions for this month’s election, it might be a good idea to repeat them and add some others today, now that early voting has started. A lot of attention has gone to the Miami-Dade mayoral race, but there are also seven commission races and five of those […]
On the week after the vote-by-mail absentee ballots started to arrive in mailboxes, a couple of Miami-Dade mayoral forums got heated last week. It also became apparent in those debates and on TV appearances that collaboration with cities — as opposed to what the current incumbent Mayor Carlos Gimenez has done with the CARES COVID-19 […]
¿Quién es mas malo? As early voting gets ready to begin on Monday, two Miami-Dade mayoral candidates are taking pots at each other in a pissing match about who’s the most corrupt of the pair. Hint: They’re both losers. Former Mayor Alex Penelas and current termed-out Commissioner Esteban Bovo have ramped it up at the […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez is facing two challengers, but only one is a real threat. Former State Rep. Robert Asencio is a sleeper candidate who beat none other than David “Nine Lives” Rivera in 2016 for a House seat in 118 — by a scant 53 votes. Despite a canyon-sized gap in their campaign financing, […]