The first public glimpse into the absentee ballot machine in Hialeah may come this week via the uncle of former Mayor Julio Robaina, known as “El Tio,” who was arrested last year in one of the dominos to fall after boletera Deisy Cabrera was first arrested. Tio Sergio Robaina, who was arrested in August, faces two […]
The event Sunday afternoon was planned long before Friday’s news about irregularities with absentee ballot requests in the campaign that elected Congressman Joe Garcia. But the re-election fundraiser 18 months out and on the heels (read: as a result) of a growing number of declared Republican challengers in the highly-contested 2014 race showed that staunch […]
Guess what? Democrats are getting better at the absentee ballot fraud that has been traditionally owned by Republican candidates in South Florida. Jeffrey Garcia, longtime political strategist and now disgraced former chief of staff for Congressman Joe Garcia, resigned Friday amid an AB fraud investigation and took responsibility for feloniously generating hundreds of ghost absentee […]
With six months left until the Miami city election, the mayoral race is picking up some speed and urgency. There have been fundraisers and multiple TV and radio interviews. This week, three of the four other Miami City Commissioners said they are backing their colleague, Commissioner Francis “The Future” Suarez in his run against incumbent […]
Miami Commissioner Francis “The Future” Suarez posted another video on YouTube Wednesday in his campaign to unseat Mayor Tomas Regalado. Or, rather, re-posted an updated old video. The Suarez camp edited an earlier video about progress and cut out stills of Genting’s planned muti-million dollar casino resort that they wanted to build in downtown Miami. […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo finally came out of the political closet and announced he has a “congressional exploratory committee” and an imposing “finance team” working on his long-rumored run for U.S. Congress in what many state Republicans apparently view as the opportunity seat in 2014. Less than two weeks after Cutler Bay Mayor […]
After authorities get the phone records and after they get sworn statements from the half dozen or so politicians implicated in the absentee ballot fraud committed by Hialeah boletera Deisy Cabrera, maybe someone should ask her attorney Eric Castillo who he really works for. Castillo would not tell Ladra Tuesday who was paying him to […]
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 […]