Relax candidates, former county mayor Alex Penelas will pass. Ladra is going to go out on a limb here and predict that all that huffing and puffing won’t pan out. Penelas might be putting his name out there for another election later on. But we don’t think someone as savvy as he would enter a […]
We need to get out of here for another hot scoop on a state rep race but must post this first: After Ladra noted earlier today that Miami Voice PAC chair Vanessa Brito, who led the recall against former commissioner Natacha Seijas, had allegedly denied her involvement in another PAC’s negative attack ad against Commissioner […]
After another high-profile candidate threw himself into the mayoral race last week and speculation grew that other big names would follow — notably former mayors Alex Penelas (Miami-Dade) and Raul Martinez (Hialeah) — some observers whispered Commissioner Carlos Gimenez, a front runners in the special election next month, might drop out. Gimenez told Ladra this […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner and mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez has learned the hard way, like Ladra did, that you just can’t trust Vanessa Brito, chair of the Miami Voice PAC that led the recall effort against former commissioner Natacha Seijas. Less than two weeks ago, Brito (photographed here at a 2009 event picking names for a door […]