It’s not strange that a bunch of Republican candidates for this or that office, even non partisan county seats, were at the Christian Family Coalition’s 2022 Miami-Dade Legislative Victory & Candidates Breakfast last month, pandering for the ultra conservative vote. But a judicial candidate? Incumbent Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Oscar Rodriguez-Fonts took a few minutes to […]
The phone call came in Monday afternoon. “Jaime,” if that is her real name, was surprised that the person who answered was not just willing but happy to participate in a survey about “important issues in Florida.” Ladra just loves these calls. Turned out to be one of many recent polls for the congressional primary […]
Old names resurface as possible fill-ins for the late Mark Samuelian Publicly, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber says it’s too soon to talk about a replacement process for the seat vacated by the sudden death of Commissioner Mark Samuelian last week. Privately, he and some Beach leaders have already started recruiting possible sit-ins. Las malas […]
UPDATE: The owner of CruisePort Destinations, a dba of America’s Gateway Inc., said that she was paid to pay her employees to canvass during the 2020 election because they were not working due to the COVID crisis. “It was really good because it helped my employees stay alive,” said Jeannette Pineiro. “During the pandemic, which […]
Anyone who thought the outrageous and over-the-top $500 million Plan Z proposal for the privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway was dead in the water might want to look again. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez wants to resurrect the public land grab. Suarez is asking the commission on Thursday to urge the county to revisit Plan Z — […]
Most people were shocked when they learned that Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian died Wednesday. Mayor Dan Gelber announced the death late in the commission meeting, one of several recent meetings that Samuelian had missed, right before they took a 30 minute recess. “Mark was a brilliant and thoughtful man who cared deeply for our […]
And Circuit Court Judge Robert Watson needs to publicly distance himself One of the things that judicial candidates can’t do, according to the very strict judicial rules in the state, is campaign or get too political. It’s canon number 7 in the Florida Supreme Court’s Judicial Code of Conduct: A Judge or Candidate for Judicial […]
Five incumbent state representatives in Miami-Dade — four Republicans, one Democrat — were re-elected more than two months before the primary Friday when nobody qualified to run against them. State Reps. Tom Fabricio in District 110, David Borrero in 111, Alex Rizo in 112 and Daniel “Danny” Perez, the future Speaker of the House, in […]
Former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera just sucked all the air out of the Florida state primary this August. Rivera surprised everybody when he filed late Friday to run for state rep in the open 119 District against a bunch of other Republicans who are suddenly in an interesting, nationally-watched race. That’s because David Rivera […]
The sudden and unexpected plan to put the city of Miami’s administration building and City Hall at the publicly-owned Melreese — adjacent to the future Miami Freedom Park — grew like a hungry monster last week when Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla suggested moving the police and fire departments and, heck, solid waste to […]