It’s not like there haven’t been a bunch of missteps in the way that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has handled the COVID19 pandemic and the economic and social crisis it has caused. There have been delays in action, an early reluctance to close events and businesses, amendments to executive orders, then amendments to those amendments. […]
“They’re baaaack,” the mailer says on one side, because everyone knows that if you elect former State Rep. and Miami-Dade School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla, you get both of his brothers, too. “The Diaz de la Portillas,” (yes, plural!) says the Halloween-like mailer that landed in mailboxes last week, with Renier looking […]
The radio ad has been playing on Spanish-language and Cuban radio for more than a week. It warns voters to be on the lookout for absentee voter fraud and targets two Miami-Dade mayoral candidates who have had a history with it: Commissioner Xavier Suarez, who was removed from office in 1997 after the Miami Herald […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime dropped out of the county mayoral race two months ago — and now he backs one of three colleagues running for the seat, which is vacated by Mayor Carlos Gimenez due to term limitations. “I have served with Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava for years and she has earned my trust and respect,” Monestime […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez lost his first battle in the congressional contest last week when a Tallahassee judge denied his motion to dismiss a lawsuit that aims to take him off the ballot because he paid his qualification fee with a bad check. Seems the lawsuit to disqualify Gimenez, filed by firefighter Omar Blanco in April, […]
UPDATED: Guess who wrote that “anonymous” complaint nearly three years ago that landed Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak in hot water for a photo he took with 14 female police officers at a pool party outside the city. No, really, try. It shocked many city insiders and employees at City Hall Thursday that the “anonymous” complaint to then City […]
The charges against four Florida International University students who were protesting the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police — and the inequitable treatment of blacks by law enforcement and criminal courts everywhere — have been dropped by state prosecutors who did not find enough evidence to move forward. “The totality of […]
Different rules about containing the COVID19 virus in different municipalities across Miami-Dade are confusing residents about the requirement of masks and causing yet more distrust in local governments that say one thing one day and something completely different the next. Does anyone else remember a time when we were told that masks weren’t necessary and […]
Miami city attorneys lost their final appeal Wednesday against the effort to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo, and the city could be forced to turn the 1,900 plus petitions to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections as early as Thursday. The Third District Court of Appeals denied the request by the city and Carollo’s attorney, Ben Kuehne, […]
The negative political ads and “anonymous” attack mailers have come out in the 2020 mayoral race, so far against two of the candidates — Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava and former mayor Alex Penelas. Over the last week, some voters have received one or all of three mailers — count ’em, three in less than a week — attacking Levine […]