Six commission candidates also qualify for two seats in the April 11 race Without a challenge, Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago automatically won re-election Friday. Noon was the qualifying deadline and Lago alone is running for the mayoral seat. How sad. “I am humbled to have officially been re-elected as your mayor without opposition. I […]
A new digital video making the rounds on social media gives a scathing first-person account of former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Martin Zilber‘s unethical behavior, as documented by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Committee, and narrated by his very victim, the judicial assistant he abused at work when she was pregnant. And Dixie Dent, who was […]
While everyone is watching anxiously to see the results of the special election in Miami’s District 2, Miguel Gabela is already thinking ahead to November and District 1. A perennial candidate, it would be his fourth run. And his second rematch. Gabela, a real estate investor and auto parts business owner, last lost in 2019 […]
Former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Martin Zilber has outraised and outspent every other candidate in the special election to fill the vacancy in the Miami Commission District 2 seat. He collected $275,000 in contributions between his campaign account and his political action committee, Beautify Grove Miami. More than everyone else combined. According to […]
Part of the proceeds go to the Save the Chickens Defense Fund You, too, can be the proud owner of a Joe Carollo wifebeater tank top with the Miami commissioner’s mugshot on it. Or maybe, like Ladra, you want a mugshot coffee mug. In the wake of a highly questionable arrest Saturday of a protester […]
Tanya Katzoff Bhatt is an activist, past president of Miami Beach United The big ticket in the Miami Beach city election is going to be the mayoral race between former Commissioner Michael Góngora and former commissioner and State Rep. Michael Grieco, whose first run for the seat was interrupted by an investigation into illegal campaign […]
Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert assigned new committees and appointed the commissioner who will serve as chair and vice chair of these new committees, which are often where the details of projects and policies are debated. Every woman on the commission got a chairmanship, which means that five women will be chair of something or […]
Former Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Nikki Fried, who lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary last year, announced Monday that she wants to try “something new” — and is running to be the next chair of the Florida Democratic Party. That pits her against former Sen. Annette Taddeo, who lost her bid for congress last year, […]
Does Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago know something we don’t? Lago doesn’t have a real challenge in this April’s city elections — Jackson “Rip” Holmes can’t beat anyone, let alone the Gables Golden Boy — but he’s raising funds like he’s going to have an opponent. January was his best month, with $58,650 raised, bringing […]
Did the commissioner abuse his power again to violate someone’s rights? It was a nice, normal day of celebrating graft at Miami’s Maurice Ferre Park Saturday for the official opening of the controversial Dog and Cat sculpture park City Commissioner Joe Carollo insisted on paying almost $900,000 for. Until the chickens came. A group of […]