UPDATED: Surprise, surprise. The cancellation of the American Airlines Arena as an early voting location was most likely done at the behest Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, a suddenly-Republican congressional candidate who would gain from suppressing the blue vote there. According to a story by the Miami Herald published late Friday, the Miami Heat had pretty […]
When Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez endorsed Esteban “Stevie” Bovo for county mayor, political observers raised an eyebrow. When his son, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, endorsed Renier Diaz de la Portilla in the Miami-Dade District 5 race, we did a double take. On Wednesday, former Mayor Alex Penelas — who came in third in the first […]
State Rep. Cindy Polo is not taking anything for granted. The freshman, elected two years ago in the wake of the high school shooting in Parkland, is fighting to keep her seat against the Republican challenge from Tom Fabricio, an insurance defense attorney who believes in conversion therapy and is, apparently, the GOP’s choice to […]
Miami-Dade has a few things that are common in many dark and dirty political campaigns: Dark money (read: untraceable) is one of them. Attack mailers are another. And the quita-y-pon committees that remove an opponent’s yard signs and replace them with their own. Well, it looks like Alex Rizo — the Republican running to replace […]
Quietly last week, with nobody really noticing, a Miami-Dade Circuit Judge ordered the city of Miami to turn the recall petitions against Commissioner Joe Carollo over to the county supervisor of elections already — well, by Dec. 1. Team Carollo also scored a win, however, when Judge Alan Fine split the baby: He also announced […]
As voters line up for hours to cast their ballots in what is arguably the most divisive and antagonistic election of our time, Miami Police are going to be watching to ensure that passion doesn’t turn into intimidation or harassment. “The level of anxiety and the fear that we’re seeing from our residents and business […]
The back-to-back resignations Monday of three key city of Miami administrators is part of what several sources call a “purge” of officials to make room for political lackeys who will answer to Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Daniel Rotenberg, Director of the Department of Real Estate and Asset Management — better known as DREAM […]
Almost 2.5 Floridians have already voted via vote-by-mail in this year’s so-important election — including 202,386 in Miami-Dade — as early voting begins Monday at 33 locations, the most in county history, from the beach to the Everglades. If the trend at other states is any indication, we may have lines and long waits at […]
Not only hasn’t Miami-Dade Commission candidate Cindy Lerner — who, we already established, will say anything to get elected — apologized for verbally abusing a number of Pinecrest residents when she was mayor, she has doubled down and claimed it was an isolated incident with the wife of a nemesis councilman that has been taken […]
Cindy Lerner will say anything to get elected Miami-Dade Commissioner. The former Pinecrest mayor has gone so far as to have two completely opposite campaign messages, depending on who she’s talking to — and in what language. In English, former School Board Member Raquel Regalado is the super Republican with an agenda as extreme as […]