Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi can’t step left or right at City Hall without running into a challenger. Last month, Town Councilman Ceasar Mestre filed to run for the mayor’s seat now held by his one-time friend and ally. On Monday, Manny Cid became the second council member to file paperwork to run in what […]
Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jean Monestime isn’t the first Democrat that the local Party leaders have courted for a mayoral run. First it was former Congressman Joe Garcia, who was beaten in 2014 by Carlos Curbelo after his chief of staff and longtime campaign manager was caught requesting mass amounts of absentee ballots without the voters’ […]
It looks like that famous Harvard education that Miami-Commissioner Juan Zapata is getting — which has brought him so much grief — hasn’t helped him understand the difference between a true mandate and a marketing plan. Zapata, who has been against the Pet’s Trust Initiative voted by almost 65% of the residents in 2012, used […]
There have been a few recent volleys in the battle for the public land that is now occupied by the Dade County Youth Fair and dearly coveted by Florida International University for it’s much-ballyhooed expansion plans. None of them really matter, since The Fair has no intention of moving and we are still where we […]
Missing from the long list of electeds who are hosting Former Gov. Jeb Bush at a breakfast Monday morning in Hialeah: Mayor Carlos Hernandez. Was he snubbed because he’s an admitted loanshark? Hernandez isn’t on the host committee list. Could be because he hasn’t come out publicly for any candidate yet, as far as Ladra can tell. But it could […]
Every Republican leader and/or activist has a favorite primary candidate and in this weird landscape where the outsiders are gaining ground on both the establishment and Tea Party boys, they are making their choices known. Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Carlos Curbelo are still behind the failing campaign of former Gov. Jeb Bush. State Sen. Miguel […]
The front of the card looks normal enough. Except maybe the Baby Jesus might be pouting like Kylie Jenner and making a gang hand symbol, I don’t know. But when you open the Christmas greeting from Southern Strategy Group lobbyist Nelson Diaz — also the Miami-Dade Republican Party Chairman — you realize that the yellow […]
Failed Miami commission candidate Teresa “The Missus” Sarnoff, who gave up the runoff after she came in a distant second to Commissioner Ken Russell, got a consolation prize Monday when Gov. Rick Scott appointed her to the Florida Transportation Commission. Some people are calling it payback after Mrs. Sarnoff and her husband, then Miami Commissioner […]
Did you hear the one about the group of Cuban-American businessmen who went to Havana and had such a good time, they came back and bought a page in the Miami Herald to tell the rest of us how wonderful everything is on the Communist-run island? It’s not a joke. The 10 signers to the […]
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. While there was more blood spilled at the 5th GOP presidential debate Tuesday night than there has been in the last four previous debates — with more one-on-one challenges — there were still very few moments that seemed like they would make a big difference. There were many serious things […]