Ladra suspects Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathy Fernandez-Rundle won’t move on those boleteras caught red-handed in Hialeah last week with not three, not four, not 12 but 19 absentee ballots belonging to other people, in complete disregard and violation for a county law that is punishable by 60 days in prison or a $1,000 fine if […]
As law enforcement lags in its actions on the case of two women caught red-handed reaping absentee ballots in Hialeah last week — even after El Nuevo Herald publishes a great story where some of the voters said the boletera filled out their ballots — Ladra is left to wonder how this may affect the […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has repeatedly said he doesn’t know the boletera caught red-handed collecting AB ballots in Hialeah this week. But here is our Golden Boy mayor posing for photographs with Daisy Cabrera at the opening of his campaign office on West 68th Street on July 15. She is the second from left standing […]
Well, it looks like Daisy Cabrera, the Hialeah boletera caught red-handed Wednesday by Miami-Dade public corruption detectives collecting 19 ballots in the City of Progress, is not coming out of her apartment just yet. Her attorney, Eric Castillo, spent practically the whole morning there and slipped out with another woman, who everyone thought was Cabrera […]
Daisy Cabrera, the Hialeah boletera caught red-handed Wednesday with 19 ballots in her possession, not 12 as I first reported here, met with her Coral Gables attorney, Eric Castillo, Thursday morning at her apartment on West 41st Street in Hialeah. Some reporters who got there before Ladra reported that she had left with him but […]
Is it really any surprise to anyone that the race for House seat 112 has gone this far on the ugly scale? I mean, we are looking at a contest where one brother got his wife to put her name in the hat against another brother and an ex-wife may have financed a nasty mailer […]
Miami-Dade Police have detained and questioned two women in connection with the county mayoral race — caught with a dozen or so absentee ballots in their possession. Ladra is still getting details, which are very slow coming out of the Miami-Dade Public Corruption unit. But according to several sources, the two women were questioned after […]
It’s not like there’s an official contest or anything, but in the last few weeks, Florida Sen. Rene Garcia — chairman of the state’s Hispanic Legislative Caucus — has been destacandose as the most Cuban of the local Cuban-American electeds. Makes me think of that Laurie Anderson song, Quien es Mas Macho? Except I keep […]
Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Joe Martinez told Ladra that he was not going to change his strategy in Hialeah now that the political machinery there has publicly announced its endorsement of Mayor Carlos Gimenez. He said the endorsements last week of Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and the Seguro Que Yes Council — my words, not […]
Gaming interests in the Florida elections are on the front page of the Miami Herald today, but there were a few key connecting tidbits missing from the paper’s otherwise nicely-tracked tale of campaign contributions. See? The cash flow is only part of the story. The pressure — or political palanca coming all the way from […]