Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, who campaigned hard for the taxpayer drain that is Marlins Park, and political advisor and labor leader Marcus Dixon are supposed to save the Florida Democratic Party from itself. On Monday, the FDP announced that Dixon, a Miramar resident and Florida executive director for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), […]
The scariest thing about the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week isn’t how easily a bunch of freaking yahoos with bandanas and Army boots broke into the most sacred building of our democracy and desecrated it. Middle schoolers on the Close-Up field trip get more pat-downs and backpack searches than the bunch of misguided […]
Vice Mayor Vince Lago had his second best month of fundraising for his mayoral campaign in December, collecting a total of $42,000 — more than twice the $17K that Commissioner Pat Keon, his only opponent so far, got from her rich Coral Gables and Key Biscayne friends. This brings their totals to $158,628 for Lago, […]
The two newest candidates in the Coral Gables April election came out strong last week with their first month’s campaign finance reports, which were eerily close, and start off their respective bids with a bang. Tania Cruz-Gimenez, the daughter in law of the former mayor and current Congressman Carlos Gimenez, reported a total of $38,350 […]
The Miami-Dade County commission committees — where the real wheeling and dealing for county contracts occurs — were repartido, or handed out, last week to the new batch of commissioners. And it’s clear who the chairman’s favorites are and who, ahem, are not. New Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz, who was sworn in under way […]
Medical emergency my fat Cuban ass. Congressman (ew) Carlos Gimenez cancelled a television interview this past weekend because he was embarrassed, full of regret and genuinely afraid of how people, including his Cuban-American core voters, would take his objection to the Democratic process and involvement in what amounts to nothing less than a coup attempt […]
The county torch will be passed again this week and Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz will become the chairman of the board for the next two years, his final two years on the dais before he goes back to Sweetwater to run for mayor, a position he was first elected to in 1999. He gets […]
The current COVID-19 vaccination distribution process in Miami-Dade is apparently not for everyone — at least not for those without Internet access. Registration for the new life-saving vaccine is only online. So, Miami-Dade Commissioner Kionne McGhee has opened his office for constituents without WiFi or internet access to register there. “I want to make sure […]
This April’s interesting Coral Gables election just got more interesting: Mayra Joli, the “nodding lady” from President Donald Trump‘s Miami town hall earlier this year has joined the Group 2 commission contest. Jolly filed paperwork Tuesday to run in an already crowded seat that is shaping up as a battle between Jose Valdes-Fauli, the brother […]
Not everybody is going to be as excited as Ladra is about this, but there are more elections where that last one just came from. A bunch more. And they start right away. In fact, candidates for the Golden Beach general election in February have to qualify between Dec. 28 and Jan. 4 for a […]