Former State Rep. David Richardson first wanted to be a state senator, toying with inheriting the seat once held by Sen. Gwen Margolis before it was redistricted in 2016. Then he wanted to be a congressman, but lost the primary last year to former UM president Donna Shalala. who went on to win the seat […]
In her first month of campaign fundraising after announcing her run for 2020 Miami-Dade mayor, Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava shows she will be a force to be reckoned with — if not the outright front runner from Day 1. Levine Cava raised almost $230,000, according to her first report from April 2 to April 30. […]
With the qualifying deadline upon us and the Coral Gables Election only 46 days away, candidates continue to raise funds for their campaigns — and spend it, at an alarming rate in some cases. Sometimes what’s more important isn’t how much a candidate has raised but how quickly it gets spent and how much is […]
What looked like a sleepy, mismatched mayoral race and incumbent slam dunk in Coral Gables has turned into an exciting rematch and likely turnover: Former Commissioner Jeannett Slesnick has decided to run again. Slesnick, who lost her first mayoral bid two years ago by a scant 187 votes, has made an appointment with the city […]
One incumbent already decided not to run for re-election. An activist and would-be challenger withdrew from another race within days. A former commissioner who resigned to run for Congress wants her seat back and a former State Rep wants to run for another. Oh, and then there’s the candidate who can’t keep it in his pants. […]
The District 1 race for the city of Miami commission is getting more interesting every day. Only hours after Ladra wrote that former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who helped Commissioner Joe Carollo in his comeback, had filed to run for the seat vacated by the termed-out Commissioner Willy Gort, a onetime aide and chief […]
It looks like the fix was in after all. Political observers in Miami Beach have been saying for weeks that Joy Malakoff had the inside track to be appointed interim commissioner, replacing former Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who was forced to resign mid-term to run for Congress. On Wednesday, Malakoff got it. At first, it […]
Hey! Alex Diaz de la Portilla! You just lost two elections, one for Senate and one for county commission, and the Little Havana house you were born in was foreclosed on last week by the bank, which is putting it up for sale because you owe them $638,000. What are you going to do next? Why, […]
When fire department officials and police brass in Coral Gables first raised concerns about the new public safety building the city had designed without their input, they were told it was too late to make any significant changes. But there have been some minor interior adjustments made just recently after the forced resignation of embattled […]
The Miami Beach commission will appoint someone later this month to fill the seat of Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who was forced to resign when she ran for Congress by a Republican law aimed squarely at the Democrats in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. City commissioners should reject the GOP measure’s calculated retroactive effect […]