When the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office questions Luther Campbell about his endorement-for-a-favor , they should ask him what he knows about Julio Robaina‘s absentee ballot operation. Uncle Luke, who came in fourth in the May 24 primary and later endorsed Robaina because Carlos Gimenez would not give his friend a job, went on twitter today […]
We still don’t know, with one day left to choose, how much really has been invested in the frentic and expensive bid to become the recall replacement mayor of Miami-Dade for the next 16 months. Together, and as of the last report filed earlier this month, both candidates had more than $3.5 million to put […]
Almost 40,000 early voters cast ballots in the county mayoral race, about 5,000 more than those who went to the early voting sites in the May 24 election. Like the 77,500 absentee ballots, the majority of which Ladra thinks will still go to the machinery paid for by former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina (though with […]
Both candidates in the big Miami-Dade mayor’s race are making last minute pleas and appeals for votes, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places. Like Julio Robaina with cabbies who can’t vote and Carlos Gimenez with 20-somethings who can but won’t. Supporters for both candidates have sent mass emails out asking their friends to vote and […]
Former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina keeps saying he is the best man to oversee the county’s $7-billion budget. But his own 1st Hialeah Bank of Julito seems to be in financial trouble. Robaina’s bank is apparently $1.7 million in the hole on personal high interest loans made in the past few years, some of which […]
When former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina — who we hear owns several taxi cab medallions himself — rallied with cabbies at Miami International Airport on Tuesday, he violated a county ordinance that prohibits campaigning at MIA. And he was kicked off the property. Miami-Dade Aviation Department Director Jose Abreu told Ladra that he heard about […]
More absentee voters have cast ballots in the June 28 mayoral runoff than in the May 24 primary already, with six days left for people to return them. As of today, the Miami-Dade Elections Department reports that 75,471 absentee ballots returned of the 126,980 requested. That’s almost 60 percent. And it could top 80,000 by […]
Mr. former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina: With little more than a week to go before Election Day, I write this open letter so that you know that I am still very much interested in an opportunity to hear personally from you on any issues or concerns you have about this race and coverage of both […]
No wonder there seems to be little activity on the loud and outraged accusations of bribery, usury or mortgage or tax fraud against one of the mayoral candidates or on complaints about absentee ballot fraud: Assistant Miami-Dade State Attorney Joe Centorino, chief of the public corruption unit, has one foot out the door. Centorino is […]
Mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez might have hoped the now-nefarious Luther Campbell nod would have been enough to let him concentrate on his core constituency of supporters. But when that went south, he started doing other things and spending time (and money) in the black community. Last weekend, he visited several African-American and Haitian churches and […]