No, it’s not El Gran Combo. But it sounds just like them. There’s a new parody song and video about the man chicken protesting Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo who was arrested at Maurice Ferre Park at the grand opening of the dog and cat sculptures walk last month. The video was posted this week on […]
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust has gotten a complaint about Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and his intense interest in the annexation of Little Gables, where his lobbyist brother represents the largest property owner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ladra knows Lago said that nobody in his family had any business interest in the […]
Former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Martin Zilber has outraised and outspent every other candidate in the special election to fill the vacancy in the Miami Commission District 2 seat. He collected $275,000 in contributions between his campaign account and his political action committee, Beautify Grove Miami. More than everyone else combined. According to […]
Part of the proceeds go to the Save the Chickens Defense Fund You, too, can be the proud owner of a Joe Carollo wifebeater tank top with the Miami commissioner’s mugshot on it. Or maybe, like Ladra, you want a mugshot coffee mug. In the wake of a highly questionable arrest Saturday of a protester […]
Does Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago know something we don’t? Lago doesn’t have a real challenge in this April’s city elections — Jackson “Rip” Holmes can’t beat anyone, let alone the Gables Golden Boy — but he’s raising funds like he’s going to have an opponent. January was his best month, with $58,650 raised, bringing […]
Did the commissioner abuse his power again to violate someone’s rights? It was a nice, normal day of celebrating graft at Miami’s Maurice Ferre Park Saturday for the official opening of the controversial Dog and Cat sculpture park City Commissioner Joe Carollo insisted on paying almost $900,000 for. Until the chickens came. A group of […]
In the city of Miami special election, if we are to believe the text messages that voters are getting, we have a child molester, a communist sympathizer and an unethical attorney running for the seat vacated in District 2. Of course, none of that is necessarily true. It’s just part of Miami elections. The smearing […]
Add the International Brother of Electrical Workers Local #349 to the list of individuals and entities who have endorsed former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Martin Zilber for city of Miami commissioner in District 2. Likely under pressure — as the head of the IBEW is the father of a lobbyist who is pals […]
It’s official. As expected, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz is running for mayor of Sweetwater in the election this May. What else is he going to do? Diaz announced his intentions to run Thursday in front of Sweetwater City Hall, after he filed candidate paperwork, flanked by those he said support him “and my […]
The fourth time was the charm for the developers of the South Dade Logistics and Technology District, a 380-acre industrial and office park proposed on what used to be farmland — just over the Miami-Dade Urban Development Boundary. They got the necessary 8-4 supermajority, instead of the 9 votes they would have needed if the […]