Miami Lakes Councilman Nelson Hernandez thinks he can win the special mayoral election by lining up support from the Hialeah-Tallahassee mafia, which is throwing him a fundraiser next week. Sen. Rene Garcia, State Reps. Jose Oliva, Eddy “Here Comes Hialeah” Gonzalez and Manny Diaz, Jr., as well as Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo have invited […]
When the unions come to heads with the Miami-Dade Commission today on their multiple impasses, one commissioner may be even more aggressive toward them than others. Judging by Monday’s committee of the whole performance, Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bobo has taken on the role of labor raider in the county’s very obvious efforts to lay blame […]
His time is not now and he is, apparently, not ready: After days of a rumored relinquishment, on the heels of one major campaign setback after another, Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez will drop out of the mayoral race after all. He told Ladra it is due to a variety of reasons, including a personal one […]
You’d think they wouldn’t be so chummy. But apparently Gov. Rick Scott is warming up to Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. And vice versa. Politico reported Friday that Ross will have a fundraiser tonight for Scott at his home in the Hamptons. In New York. Not Florida, where the guv’s increasingly tough re-election, according to […]
People are still a little pissed off about Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez rescheduling two planned budget town hall meetings this week to go off to other events, including the recognition at the White House Tuesday of the 1972 Miami Dolphins championship team. But it didn’t seem to cramp his style or damper his diversions in D.C. […]
The residents of Miami Lakes had no local fire rescue service Monday. The single unit station was out of service due to the rolling “brownouts” of fire trucks and rescue units — blamed on a $15 million shortfall that might or might not be real (more on that later) — and residents who called 911 […]
Happy Anniversary Deisy Cabrera. Today marks one year from the day that the Hialeah boletera was detained and questioned by Miami-Dade Police after she was followed for two days and videotaped while she went in and out of the post office, the Hialeah district office for Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo — who was later implicated […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez was re-elected last year in a primary with 54 percent and a 24 point lead over number two, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Chairman Joe Martinez. He doesn’t reasonably have to campaign again for another year at least, according to local standards. Or so one might think (more on that later). But his […]
The event Sunday afternoon was planned long before Friday’s news about irregularities with absentee ballot requests in the campaign that elected Congressman Joe Garcia. But the re-election fundraiser 18 months out and on the heels (read: as a result) of a growing number of declared Republican challengers in the highly-contested 2014 race showed that staunch […]
After authorities get the phone records and after they get sworn statements from the half dozen or so politicians implicated in the absentee ballot fraud committed by Hialeah boletera Deisy Cabrera, maybe someone should ask her attorney Eric Castillo who he really works for. Castillo would not tell Ladra Tuesday who was paying him to […]