Jeb Bush‘s once almost certain nomination as the GOP presidential choice seems farther and farther away each day and he seems increasingly desperate to gain that ground back. Maybe that’s why he felt the need to embellish his business experience in an interview Thursday on Fox News’ Happening Now. Asked to differentiate himself from his […]
There’s a mammoth Miami-Dade County Commission meeting on Tuesday with items on the agenda about the future of a parcel at the Port of Miami, a bunch of airport concessions and new rules for the luggage wrap services, a climate change status report, several bid wavers, a program to save the county’s avocado industry and […]
The first email from Carlos Gimenez the candidate arrived Monday morning and it gave Ladra the shivers. Just in time for Halloween. In the email, Gimenez, who filed his account paperwork to open his re-election campaign for Miami-Dade mayor last week, threatens to continue on the same destructive, self-serving path that he has been on shortly […]
UPDATED: David Custin wasn’t always so successful in Miami Beach. Before he played a crucial role in electing Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioners Joy Malakoff and Michael Grieco in 2013, Custin was really just a glorified mailboy-turned-campaign-consultant who dabbled sometimes as a lobbyist. He only had one client, the red light camera American Traffic Solutions, Miami Beach […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has become such a caricature, that there are now at least four parody profiles of him in social media. Maybe more by the time you read this, the way they are proliferating every day. The jokes started on twitter with Mayor Levine’s Ego @MayorEgo, which posts the alternative (read: funny […]
It’s an informal, unscientific and likely flawed survey, done online via email blasts through Survey Monkey, a free site that provides such services, but it gives us what could be the first glimpse of what will happen in Miami Beach Nov. 3. Despite all the bad press Mayor Philip Levine has gotten lately — what with the […]
UPDATED: This week, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine was on the defense about everything, it seemed. He’s taking a PR hit on massive flooding he’s boasted about fixing in glitzy TV commercials paid for by shaken down vendors and developers through a shady PAC. And he’s been questioned by his coveted viejito voters for his […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez filed to run for re-election Thursday and it was treated like news. Didn’t everybody know this was coming? He’s been running for mayor practically since he was elected mayor in 2011 after the recall of Carlos Alvarez. For at least two months, the campaign has stepped it up with ads paid […]
The city of Opa-Locka apparently is not big enough for two political crooks. Last month, former Homestead Mayor and Miami-Dade County Manager Steve Shiver — who has been accused of squandering millions in CRA funds for Homestead redevelopment after Hurricane Andrew, some of it going to clients he represented after he left the city — […]
The second fundraiser for the open state House seat vacated by Erik Fresen after next year happened last week in the private office of a sitting county commissioner and former mayor of South Miami. Jose Pazos had his campaign kick off at his office building, home to the business he shares with his partner, former South Miami […]