The back-to-back resignations Monday of three key city of Miami administrators is part of what several sources call a “purge” of officials to make room for political lackeys who will answer to Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Daniel Rotenberg, Director of the Department of Real Estate and Asset Management — better known as DREAM […]
Why are people hanging on to their ballots? Of the 627,484 Miami-Dade voters who had absentee or vote-by-mail ballots mailed to them as of Wednesday, a little more than 142,000 have mailed them back. That means that more than three times as many — a total of almost half a million — are still sitting […]
Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales sprung a surprise resignation on the mayor and commissioners Wednesday in phone calls and a letter that said it was time for him to move on and pursue other interests. He also said he missed his political voice during a time when so many critical issues are dividing us […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo is two for two in his bid to become mayor: Commissioner Xavier Suarez endorsed on Monday the Hialeah politico he came into the commission with in 2011. Already candidate Monique Nicole Barley endorsed Bovo last week over Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, in a surprise move, so, really, only former Mayor Alex […]
Shocker! Monique Nicole Barley, who came in fifth in the race for Miami-Dade mayor last week — but third in a number of predominantly black precincts — endorsed Commissioner Esteban Bovo on Thursday instead of her fellow Democrat, Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava. What’s more is she’s likely leaving the Democratic Party and turning — gasp […]
State Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez — who is in a race against a well-spoken, attractive, handpicked Republican challenger (and, no, it’s not a rematch with former Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla) — launched his first TV ad Thursday as part of an eventual six-figure ad buy. He’s about a week late. Latinas for Trump […]
In what was likely the last televised debate of the four leading Miami-Dade mayoral candidates, the time and drama was dominated, yet again, by former mayor Alex Penelas and current Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo, who traded jabs and interrupted each other like they were alone on the stage. Ladra could watch Tuesday’s AmericaTeve debate again […]
In the final stretch of the Miami-Dade mayoral election, two separate internal polls put county Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava comfortably in the runoff. Former Mayor Alex Penelas — who came in third in an independent business group poll Ladra posted about on Political Cortadito Aug. 6 — released a new poll of 350 likely primary […]
There wasn’t going to be a primary in the House 112 race — which covers downtown Miami, Shenandoah and Key Biscayne. But then the ghost of former Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro filed at the 11th hour to challenge teacher Rosy Palomino, a perennial candidate and president of the Douglas Park Neighborhood Association who has been […]
Where were you when Miami immigration activist Thomas Kennedy told Florida Gov. Ron “DeSastre” DeSantis and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez off for bungling the response to the COVID19 health and economic crisis? That’s what future generations will ask each other every summer as they take a week to honor our COVID19 dead. Kennedy did Monday […]