King Nine Lives Rivera shows face at convention

King Nine Lives Rivera shows face at convention

In the days leading up to the Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, las malas lenguas were saying in Miami that U.S. Congressman King David “Nine Lives” Rivera would not show up to the political powwow after the news last week that he was embroiled in a federal elections commission investigation into whether or […]

Another AB queen and more fraud concerns

Another AB queen and more fraud concerns

Yet another reason why the whole Aug. 14 election should be tossed out and a new one ordered: There are more absentee ballot fraud claims and irregularities in two state house races — one of them a Democratic primary with a new “absentee ballot queen” that puts the moniker right on her business card. Are […]

There are two heroes: Firefighter hired PI

There are two heroes: Firefighter hired PI

Surprise, surprise, surprise. It ain’t a politician or a political operative. It isn’t a party or a PAC. It wasn’t a union or former Miami Mayor Joe Carrollo who hired private investigator Joe Carrillo to follow a known boletera in Hialeah and, finally, open the Pandora’s Box of absentee ballot fraud that has permeated the […]

Hialeah AB fraud: Vivian Casals-Muñoz involved

Hialeah AB fraud: Vivian Casals-Muñoz involved

Even before the story in Thursday’s Miami Herald has her admitting that she went to see Deisy Cabrera the same day the boletera was popped by the Miami-Dade Police public corruption unit, Hialeah Councilwoman Vivian “I’ll Notarize That” Casals-Muñoz was up to her elbows in the absentee ballot fraud rampant in the City of Progress […]

Braman Bunch big losers in Tuesday’s battle

Braman Bunch big losers in Tuesday’s battle

Auto magnate Norman Braman and his sidekick gypsy conartist Vanessa Brito are two for two in their quest to control the county commission. But that’s okay because that means they don’t have a majority vote — even if they win the two runoffs in November, which is highly unlikely. This should be a loud and […]

Lopsided results = possible “control” in state race

Lopsided results = possible “control” in state race

More strangeness out of Tuesday’s election results revolve around the state house race in district 103, where the favored candidate with the name recognition was beaten almost too handily by the hand-picked puppet of the Hialeah hoodlum machinery tainted by the absentee ballot scandal. Ladra is looking at the lopsided results of the 103 race […]

Court challenge to come on AB tainted election

Court challenge to come on AB tainted election

Ladra smells a court challenge. Not only is there one candidate, backed by at least one employee union, but perhaps at least two candidates from Tuesday’s ballot considering a legal challenge to the election based on the evident absentee ballot fraud that may indicate wider electoral malfeasance. Commission Chairman Joe Martinez told Ladra before he […]

Throw out tainted ABs and we’d have a runoff

Throw out tainted ABs and we’d have a runoff

So, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Golden Boy” Gimenez seems so proud of tainted his re-election victory with 54% of the vote in a race marked by the dark cloud of boleteros and possible absentee ballot fraud. But you know what? If the ABs are tossed out — as they should be — there would be a […]

Do it for all doggies: Repeal pooch profiling

Do it for all doggies: Repeal pooch profiling

While all the hoopla about racial profiling is centered on the baddest sheriff in the U.S.A. and his anti-immigrant “crime sweeps” in Arizona, there is wide-spread bias of another kind happening in our own Miami-Dade County. I’m talking about doggie discrimination. I’m talking about pooch profiling. I’m talking about the ridiculous and arbitrary ban on […]

AB scandal: Natacha Seijas is “lovin’ it” — sorta

AB scandal: Natacha Seijas is “lovin’ it” — sorta

One of the people watching the elections and the absentee ballot scandal in Hialeah with interest is former Miami-Dade Commissioner Natacha Seijas, who was recalled along with former Mayor Carlos Alvarez last year in an manipulated political maneuver piloted by a billionaire car dealer that wants to control the commission (more on that later) and […]