It doesn’t seem that the news about absentee ballot fraud in last year’s county commission campaign has hurt Alex Diaz de la Portilla‘s fundraising for this year’s city of Miami District 1 race. Dean DLP hit and slightly surpassed the $200,000 mark in May, according to the latest campaign finance report, showing he raised $38,250 […]
Former State Rep. David Richardson first wanted to be a state senator, toying with inheriting the seat once held by Sen. Gwen Margolis before it was redistricted in 2016. Then he wanted to be a congressman, but lost the primary last year to former UM president Donna Shalala. who went on to win the seat […]
Sweetwater Mayor Orlando Lopez must be feeling the heat as the days get closer and closer to the runoff for his seat against former mayor and longtime nemesis Jose M. Diaz — and, perhaps, his ouster from City Hall. Because on Monday and Tuesday, a week before the runoff, a mailer landed in some voters’ […]
In her first month of campaign fundraising after announcing her run for 2020 Miami-Dade mayor, Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava shows she will be a force to be reckoned with — if not the outright front runner from Day 1. Levine Cava raised almost $230,000, according to her first report from April 2 to April 30. […]
Attack campaign jingles, scantily clad women at polls and the alleged attempted murder of a campaign worker whose car was reportedly shot at Monday morning as he drove around with a loudspeaker urging voters to support one of the mayoral runoff candidates. It may be one of Miami-Dade’s tiniest cities, but elections in Sweetwater always promise […]
Looks like Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talks out of both sides of his mouth. Last summer, after he made a backroom deal with David Beckham and Jorge Mas to turn Melreese Golf Course into a $1 billion real estate/retail/office complex with a hotel and, oh yeah, a 25,000-seat soccer stadium, Suarez and his new business […]
What is possibly the nastiest race ever in the city of Coral Gables ended Tuesday with the election of a lawbreaking newcomer who used a shadow Trojan political action committee to attack his opponent with lies. Attorney Jorge Fors beat former Commissioner Ralph Cabrera, 51% to 49% with a 173-vote lead, which is not a […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández may be termed out, but his political action committee raised almost a quarter million since he was re-elected, including more than $200K was last month alone — most of it on a single day. What’s it for, if he’s termed out in 2021? Sources say Hernández, who rules Hialeah with an iron fist and […]
When it comes down to it — and there are less than 24 hours to vote — we can’t trust Jorge Fors with the future of Coral Gables. This is a man who cheats on his property taxes for eight or nine years in a row — filling out a bogus homestead exemption on a […]
The commission seat runoff in Coral Gables has gotten nasty with back-to-back hit mailers attacking former Commissioner Ralph Cabrera with lies and innuendo. They come from the same Jensen Beach political action committee that sent three anti-Cabrera pieces in the first round — so we know now they are on behalf of candidate Jorge Fors. […]