So, now that people — both investigators and reporters — are looking into her job with Miami-Dade Water and Sewer and making public records requests, Barby Rodriguez Gimenez showed up to work Tuesday. Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s daughter-in-law was paraded up and down the Coral Gables offices of Aecom, 135 San Lorenzo Ave., by Esther Monzon, president […]
God help us, but Ladra thinks State Rep. Frank Artiles could very well become my state senator in November. Yes, he is a homophobic, sucker-punching Fight Club aficionado who looks like Magilla Gorilla (it’s the jaw line), lied about his residency when he was first elected and wants to kill a Florida black bear. The only real […]
Today’s City of Miami Commission meeting is expected to get heated when Commissioner Ken Russell asks for City Attorney Victoria Mendez to be fired for intentionally withholding documents he requested regarding the rezoning of a fast-tracked residential development in Coconut Grove. And there’s likely to be some push back, specifically from members of the Cuban American […]
Democrat activist Carlos Pereira, a candidate for Doral City Council, was suspended this week from the Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee (DEC) because he allegedly endorsed Republican State Rep. Carlos Trujillo. Pereira says he has not endorsed anybody in the race for House District 105 and that he cannot control a photo that Trujillo posted on […]
It’s like he’s been backed into a corner. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez lied again last week and slandered, again, a pair of animal activists who worked hard to get the Pets’ Trust Initiative passed by 65% of the voters in 2012 and who are brave enough to keep fighting ever since for that vote to […]
The government response to Zika has been slow and chaotic. But the politicians’ response to it has been quick and consistent — as far as campaigning goes. Election in the Time of Zika ought to be a how-to for any candidate on a South Florida ballot in November. The latest to get in on the […]
Ouch. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen just showed the rest of the 305 political world how negative campaign ads are done with a commercial that has basically stopped her challenger, Democrat Scott Fuhrman, in his tracks. Ladra doubts that Fuhrman can come back from this. The ad doesn’t only remind people about Fuhrman’s old drunk driving charge. It […]
Not many people were surprised by the Miami-Dade County Commission’s decision Wednesday to ignore the petition of 127,000 voters who clamor for campaign finance reform in our pay-to-play county government. And it’s not like they didn’t have good reason. Even the petition gatherers — a group calling itself An Accountable Miami-Dade — had already filed […]
While everybody was concentrated on the primary last week, several Republicans without August challengers were eager to get to November, with mailers and TV ads already — since even before qualification and the Fourth of July. That would be State Rep. Frank Artiles, who is running for Senate in District 40 against incumbent Sen. Dwight Bullard, who won […]
There have been a few protests of Donald Trump‘s immigration positions and proposals at the Doral Resort and Spa he owns. Now, it’s his side’s turn to picket. Latinas Por Trump — “a 100% volunteer coalition of Latina influencers that networks and stays true to the promises created by the Trump campaign and the needs of […]