Thank God for the feds coming to the rescue. I’ll call them the cavalry. The scandalous claims that came out Sunday about former Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi wanting three years ago to plant cocaine on former Councilman Richard Pulido or take him out more permanently — as in hire someone to whack him […]
Looks like Congressman Joe Garcia‘s former campaign consultant-turned-chief of staff could be doing time. Jeffrey “No Relation” Garcia, who admitted immediately to a scam that generated hundreds of unauthorized absentee ballot requests in last year’s Congressional race, has reportedly reached a plea agreement and will be sentenced to 90 days in jail. His crime: illegally […]
Former Sweetwater Mayor Manny “Maraña” Maroño was facing federal extortion conspiracy charges for his role in a bogus grant application scheme in which authorities say he intended to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government in exchange for thousands of dollars in kickbacks. But Friday, Maroño — once on a rumored shortlist […]
Is she at it again? Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador is under investigation for co-mingling campaign funds from her judicial and municipal campaigns last year (more on that later). But that doesn’t stop her from flirting with the same kind of disaster for the upcoming Hialeah elections. Tirador doesn’t only represent Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez […]
A Homestead voter said two men came to her house Wednesday and filled out ballots for her and three family members — before the voters realized that at least one ballot was marked for the wrong candidates. Those candidates, according to one of four ballots filled out, are mayoral hopeful Mark Bell, the husband of […]
Now that Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez has bowed out of the mayoral race and nobody came out of the shadows to replace him, we only have two races worth watching. And one of those is the fight by Commissioner Frank Carollo to keep his seat against challenger Alex Dominguez. Carollo may have a little questionable […]
Doral City Manager Joe Carollo might want to get a bodyguard or some protective custody from the FBI, maybe. That’s because he went on a verbal rampage Tuesday night and threw everybody under the bus in an effort to defend himself against allegations of acting unprofessionally with a business associate and friend of Mayor Luigi […]
More than 190,000 absentee ballots will be mailed today to voters in Miami-Dade County for the Nov. 5 question on the public financing of Jackson Health System’s modernization, which is being pushed by the same team of campaign consultants, more or less, who got Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez re-elected and got last year’s school bond […]
This afternoon, Democrats will be calling voters from a home in Pinecrest, but don’t worry my 305 friends — they’re calling in the 727 area code several counties away and north of Tampa. The South Dade Democrats have organized a phone bank from 4 to 6 p.m. today for Amanda Murphy, the only blue candidate […]
Former President Bill Clinton stopped by Miami Beach Monday to support millionaire candidate Philip Levine for mayor. So says former State Rep. turned lawyer to the pols J.C. Planas, Levine’s attorney and campaign attack dog. Planas posted a selfie he took of himself standing next to Clinton on facebook from “near Fisher Island” about 1 p.m. Monday, […]