When the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office questions Luther Campbell about his endorement-for-a-favor , they should ask him what he knows about Julio Robaina‘s absentee ballot operation. Uncle Luke, who came in fourth in the May 24 primary and later endorsed Robaina because Carlos Gimenez would not give his friend a job, went on twitter today […]
Almost 40,000 early voters cast ballots in the county mayoral race, about 5,000 more than those who went to the early voting sites in the May 24 election. Like the 77,500 absentee ballots, the majority of which Ladra thinks will still go to the machinery paid for by former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina (though with […]
More absentee voters have cast ballots in the June 28 mayoral runoff than in the May 24 primary already, with six days left for people to return them. As of today, the Miami-Dade Elections Department reports that 75,471 absentee ballots returned of the 126,980 requested. That’s almost 60 percent. And it could top 80,000 by […]
When all is said and done, the two final candidates in the county mayoral race will have spent more than $3 million between them to get out the vote. Julio Robaina has raised more than $2 million and maybe close to $2.5 million so far in his bid to become the next Miami-Dade Mayor — […]
Maybe Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez digs Hialeah, after all. The former county commissioner has taken some disproportionate flack for a robocall that disses the City of Progress, which he says his campaign has nothing to do with (more on that later). But he sure spends a lot of time there. Saturday’s caravan through the […]
Ladra is not a big Star Wars fan, but doesn’t Luke Skywalker betray the force in one of those movies to join Darth Vader in his evil plans? Well, looks like it happened again. Former rapper and mayoral candidate Luther Campbell, known as Luke Skywalker in the rap world, backed out of an endorsement for […]
Carlos Gimenez was left standing at the altar Wednesday, so to speak. The former county commissioner and mayoral candidate was ready to announce a surprise “major endorsement” everyone knew was going to be from Luther Campbell, one of the nine candidates that did not make the run-off, at an inner city park Wednesday morning that […]
The two candidates for Miami-Dade mayor seemed sorta similar and even chummy Wednesday at a debate presented by The Miami Foundation at the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. But don’t let looks fool ya. Former county commissioner Carlos Gimenez and former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina are polar opposites. Chuckling and patting each other on […]
Looks like Julio Robaina is afraid to face Carlos Gimenez in front of a live audience. The two mayoral candidates left standing after the May 24 vote will face-off in a June 28 runoff and the new debate/forum cycle started Monday with a snub after Robaina decided to skip the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations […]
Former Hialeah councilman Alex Morales, who was director at the Hialeah Housing Authority until he was fired under a political cloud in 2009 and is an avid critic of the former mayor and his administration, did what some close to him expected on Monday: He filed documents as a candidate for the council seat being […]