Former Mayor Alex Penelas has collected more than $3 million between his campaign account and his political action committee and his publicists think it’s such a good thing they sent out a press release (that they can bill for, of course). It’s not so great once everyone learns where the money is coming from. “Miami-Dade […]
South Miami Commissioner Josh Liebman, in a re-election campaign, sent out a mailer or handed out flyers on Thursday that said he has attended commission meetings 99.5% of the time, missing only one — on his birthday. “That’s commitment,” it says in big green letters. No, that’s delusional. Because according to attendance records at the […]
Organizers of the recall of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo already have at least $100,000 to advertise their cause and a contingent of supporters who could become candidates in a replacement election. Volunteers already collected more than 200 signatures last weekend on the first Saturday, said Juan Cuba, photographed here talking to the first group that fanned […]
The South Miami mayoral race has become, basically, a blood fight between current Mayor Phillip Stoddard — who is not running but has a puppet candidate in the race — and his arch nemesis, former Mayor Horace Feliu, who wants his old job back. It’s a five-way race but while the other three candidates knock […]
Did any of you notice how quickly and efficiently City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla seized the power for himself and his faction on Friday? Without any discussion on the matter — and, in fact, interrupting the discussion about the manager’s resignation and the allegations about him — ADLP moved on the appointment of […]
Text messages don’t lie: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has been caught using several members of his publicly paid senior staff to basically work on his suddenly-halted and possibly aborted congressional campaign. And the executive director of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust, Jose Arrojo, said they would investigate. An ethics complaint filed Friday […]
The Miami city manager’s sudden resignation Friday has been an exit in the works for months, a power play so commissioners can bring in their own man, say several political observers and sources close to City Hall. Word is that man is Miami Parking Authority Director Arthur Noriega. Under normal circumstances, former assistant city manager Joe […]
P0litical strategist and organizer Juan Cuba, former executive director of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, has a great idea: Let’s recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo. And he is not alone. After a meltdown at the city commission meeting last week in which Carollo picked a fight with Chairman Keon Hardemon and then he and his partner in crime, […]
When it was first reported in September that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez was eyeing a run for Congress in District 26, Ladra thought it was a bad dream. No such luck. Gimenez, who is termed out this year, is expected to announce this week — perhaps as early as Wednesday — that he will run for the […]
It’s Julio’s turn. Again. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez only has about a year left in his term. That means he’s got to step up the parceling out of projects and contracts for those on his friends and family plan. On Thursday, his administration is asking the county commission to give a $5 million economic incentive […]