A probable cause hearing has been scheduled on what was a questionable ethics complaint to begin with, filed against one of the candidates in the uglier-by-the-minute Homestead mayoral race, looking very much like a campaign move made simply to bolster Mark Bell‘s chances in the heated runoff against former Councilman Jeff Porter. Note that the […]
In a stunningly quick turnaround by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, which usually moves at the speed of coffee in a watched cafetera, Hialeah’s Seguro Que Yes Council was cleared of allegations that they committed mass violation of the Sunshine Law by meeting together minutes before they were to vote on the city’s annual budget. […]
As Ladra researched the Miami Beach mayoral elections and talked to dozens of people, one name came up as often as that of the candidates’: Commissioner Jonah “Potty Mouth” Wolfson, un fosforito with possible ethics lapses who is hell bent on getting questionable millionaire jerk Philip Levine elected and is alternately described as Levine’s attack […]
If you have nothing to do later today, pass by the John F. Kennedy Library in Hialeah, where early voting always promises a show or, in this case, a large artistic election installation. Former Mayor Julio “The Other” Martinez has built a jail cell, a 5X8 cage really, with four orange-jumper wearing dummies inside and […]
So, the only person who answered my open call for editorial cartoons is Mike Burke, who has a fixation with Miami Beach Mayor Matti Bower. Not a Basic Instinct kind of fixation but an All The President’s Men kind of fixation. Burke’s beefs are pretty plentiful. He doesn’t like the way she travels on the […]
It seems that more early voters are participating in city elections in Hialeah and Miami Beach than they are in Miami and Homestead. Of course, there’s no definitive way to know, because you can vote from pretty much any early voting location as opposed to just from your precinct on Election Day. And the Stephen […]
The political bomb that exploded in Doral last week has had its aftershocks. Already, there is an investigation into the campaign office rental of Mayor Luigi Boria and another inquiry on his links with a friend and property owner who bought the property from Boria’s children with money the mayor may have lent him and […]
Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador — who has diversified in the kind of shenanigans she specializes in — is the subject of at least two investigations into her campaign practices. One is sorta new and has to do with last year’s mayoral bid in Doral. One is sorta old and revolves around the alleged mingling […]
Steve Berke is looking better and better every day. Berke is the former comedian running for mayor in Miami Beach on a platform that advocates for decriminalized marijuana and a “2020 Vision” plan anchored by a skyline cable car system to boost tourism, which I thought was pie in the sky until he got the […]
An assistant of Doral Mayor Luigi Boria‘s, who had worked on his campaign last year, resigned Monday amid allegations that there were campaign finance law violations related to the rental of the campaign office. Gonzalo Bello, who pretty much ran the day-to-day operations at the shopping strip campaign office and later became the mayor’s administrative […]