The recent stories in the Miami Herald about the notebooks kept by Hialeah boletera Deisy Cabrera, who was arrested last year carrying dozens of ballots during the mayoral election, have reaffirmed what most of us already knew: That she was paid by candidates and/or their campaigns to pick up absentee ballots from voters, many of whom […]
The vote tally seems like a mandate for the mayor’s mama: Sweetwater Councilwoman Isolina Maroño won the seat she was appointed to in her first election and by a landslide. Beating activist Deborah Centeno 72 percent to 28 last week is vindication for both the councilwoman and her son, Mayor Manny Maroño, who were both […]
Voters in Sweetwater will choose today between an incumbent commissioner who is also the mayor’s mama and an activist and political neophyte running mostly on an anti-nepotism, anti-corruption campaign in the only contested race in the city election. Or maybe they already decided. A little more than 1,100 of the 1,800 absentee ballots requested have been […]
As Ladra types this, Doral Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz is arriving at the city’s police station to file a harassment information report on City Manager “Crazy Joe” Carollo after another reported outburst with her and her “illegal” intern. She drove over from City Hall in a caravan after Carollo “stomped” into a conference room where she […]
Many suspected Doral was doomed to a downward spiral when Mayor Luigi Boria bought his election and then hired his campaign man, former Miami Mayor “Crazy Joe” Carollo, as the city manager. It is unsure, however, if anyone expected the slide to be quite so steep. Or so swift. The once-sleepy town of hard-working and/or […]
Not content in trying to put his own puppets in political office, which he miserably failed at last year anyway, automobile industry mogul Norman Braman is now endorsing candidates for local party leadership. District committeeman Emmanuel “Manny” Roman, who is credited with getting the Miami-Dade Republican Party to condemn the Dolphins Stadium deal and is now suddenly […]
The internal turmoil in the city of Doral reached a new height — or low, actually — on Wednesday when City Manager ‘Crazy Joe’ Carollo confronted the volunteer college intern of his nemesis, Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz, in a bizarre power fit a bit exagerado even for him and this escalating war in the otherwise sweet […]
With the Miami mayoral race six months away, Commissioner Francis “The Future” Suarez launched his “Our Time Is Now” video campaign on YouTube in a series of three pieces that remind Ladra of the Barack Obama commercials last year and that seek to position Baby X as the fresh, forward-minded option to lead the city […]
If Pablito Rivera lived in Little Havana, you’d hear him yelling — over the sound of his moped, Marc Anthony wafting from some window y las gallinas next door — “The Democrats are coming! The Democrats are coming!” Local Dems invaded Little Havana, so to speak, this week when they opened their official headquarters Monday in […]
With the Miami Dolphins performance, you’d think he would be used to it. But Dolphins and SunLife Stadium owner Stephen Ross, who just lost his blatant grab at public dollars when the Florida House of Representatives closed the session without bringing the bill up, seems like a sore loser. He lashed out at House Speaker Will […]