When all is said and done, the two final candidates in the county mayoral race will have spent more than $3 million between them to get out the vote. Julio Robaina has raised more than $2 million and maybe close to $2.5 million so far in his bid to become the next Miami-Dade Mayor — […]
Former mayoral candidate and musical empresario Luther Campbell can rap until he is blue in the face and say that he didn’t ask for a job for his friend and campaign ally in return for his endorsement of county mayoral run-off candidate Julio Robaina, who just a few weeks ago was an “overlord” who bought […]
Who needs Uncle Luke? Carlos Gimenez has snagged himself the sister! While it may not come as a surprise, Gabrielle Redfern has become the third of the former candidates in the May 24 mayoral race to endorse the former county commissioner in the June 28 runoff. With endorsements from former State Rep. Marcelo Llorente (REP, […]
We’ve heard for months now that state and federal authorities are investigating former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina, a candidate for Miami-Dade mayor, for possible loan sharking activities (or “usury” like the feds call it or “shadow banking” like the media calls it) as well as possible tax evasion from the, naturally, non-reported income of such […]
Everybody’s got it wrong. We gotta give Luther Campbell a medal. His endorsement of former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina for the Miami-Dade mayoral post was not a sell-out, flip-flop documented example of hypocrisy. It was brilliant! Uncle Luke got Robaina to promise a taxpayer-paid position when elected for a political favor, a big no-no according […]
Maybe Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez digs Hialeah, after all. The former county commissioner has taken some disproportionate flack for a robocall that disses the City of Progress, which he says his campaign has nothing to do with (more on that later). But he sure spends a lot of time there. Saturday’s caravan through the […]
Every once in a while, mayoral candidate Julio Robaina says something that is so true it’s hard to believe it came out of his mouth. Earlier this week, he said “the devil is in the details” at the Miami Foundation’s forum. We are pretty sure he was talking about some budget issue. So are we […]
Ladra is not a big Star Wars fan, but doesn’t Luke Skywalker betray the force in one of those movies to join Darth Vader in his evil plans? Well, looks like it happened again. Former rapper and mayoral candidate Luther Campbell, known as Luke Skywalker in the rap world, backed out of an endorsement for […]
While Ladra is concentrating on the very important county mayoral race and other distractions, we thank our lucky stars that Al Crespo and the writers at Investigation Miami are out there keeping tabs on the antics at the city of Miami. Crespo was first to report the pending resignation of City Manager Tony Crapp (Hey, […]
There was one word that mayoral candidate Julio Robaina kept bringing up in the debate Wednesday night by The Miami Foundation at the University of Miami that caused Ladra’s ears to perk up every time: “We.” Robaina keeps referring to himself in plural. Is he planning to clone himself or suffering from a multiple personality […]