Florida State Rep. and House Speaker Daniel “Danny” Perez attended some of the inauguration festivities in Washington D.C. last month, as did many other South Florida electeds who were there. But Perez flew to DC in a private jet with fundraiser Brian Goldmeier and several political influencers, including John Ruiz, the University of Miami booster who wanted […]
Miami Commissioner Crazy Joe Carollo, accused of using the Bayfront Park Management Trust as his own personal piggy bank, has gone nuclear with his proposed solution: Abolish the agency altogether. Sued last month for abusing his power and getting kickbacks in shady deals as chairman of the Bayfront Trust, Carollo put an item on the agenda for […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is coming apart at the seams. His latest public meltdown was caught on camera last week during a press conference called by Police Chief Ed Hudak about the two human trafficking incidents that were recently thwarted by the department within the City Beautiful’s borders. Hudak had just finished briefing the […]
Newly-elected Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia, who beat JC Planas 56% to 44% in November’s historic race, was sworn in last week as the county’s first elected person to that new constitutional office. The ceremony in Hialeah was also a swearing in of two other constitutional officers, Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez and Property Appraiser Tomas Regalado, […]
Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla just keeps on winning. After getting 11 felony charges, including bribery and money laundering, dropped in November, Diaz de la Portilla won another court ruling Thursday when a judge dismissed a civil lawsuit from a lobbyist who says he was shaken down for a vote on a […]
In what seems like a complete abandonment of his stated principles and mayoral campaign platform, former Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid — who was trounced 58% to 23% by Daniella Levine Cava in last August’s election (no need for a runoff) — has taken a newly-created $200,000-a-year job in a make-believe department in the top-heavy administration […]
Well, everyone knew it was going to happen. Even before President Elect Donald Trump had announced his appointment of Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera — who has been instrumental in Trump’s Florida campaign — as ambassador to Panama, everyone knew it was coming. This week, Trump made it official in a post on Truth Social, […]
A county judge last week dismissed the defamation lawsuit filed by Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago against Actualidad Media Group for a Spanish-language morning radio broadcast where veteran journalist Roberto Rodriguez Tejera mentioned an investigation by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust into the mayor’s lack of truthfulness regarding his conflict of interests […]
Alian Collazo is not a wealthy guy. The Tampa transplant running for Florida House District 115 as a plantidate filed a financial disclosure where he reported earning $40,500 as a Florida State employee and said he had $1,354.91 in a checking account on June 12. His only other assets were a $6,673.54 retirement account and […]
GOP candidates, gym equipment get thumbs up A Democrat candidate for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections has distributed hundreds, maybe thousands of slate cards with endorsements for the Aug. 20 ballot that include judges, the county mayor, the county sheriff’s race — and two Republican incumbents that have never been elected but were, instead, appointed by […]