Xavier Suarez TV ad campaign smells like a mayoral race

Xavier Suarez TV ad campaign smells like a mayoral race

Looking ever more like a would-be mayoral candidate, Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez released the second TV video ad this week in which he attacks Mayor Carlos Gimenez on a number of issues. Last week, it was transportation and the fact that Gimenez uses funds from the People’s Transportation Trust bond to subsidize transit operating expenses. […]

Now challenged, Philip Levine also sheds shady PAC

Now challenged, Philip Levine also sheds shady PAC

Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine officially launched his re-election campaign last week with an email to his supporters, bragging about all he has done, boasting that he’s cleaned up City Hall, and saying that he will again fund his own campaign. I guess he forgot that the now defunct and still shady Relentless for Progress […]

Donald Trump trumps Jeb Bush in social media contest

Donald Trump trumps Jeb Bush in social media contest

The heat has turned up in recent days as GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump hone in on each other with recent jabs and attacks. But Trump is getting a lot more traction on his hits, thanks to his copious use of social media. Meanwhile, if Team Jeb wants to know why they […]

Jeb Bush funnier with Stephen Colbert than with Fallon

Jeb Bush funnier with Stephen Colbert than with Fallon

Maybe he just doesn’t care anymore, now that he is slipping in the polls. Maybe he practiced. But Jeb Bush sure seemed more comfortable Tuesday night on the much anticipated return of the Late Show with new host Stephen Colbert than he was weeks ago on the Jimmy Fallon show. Heck, he even gave a shout […]

State Rep. Frank Artiles wants to kill a Florida black bear

State Rep. Frank Artiles wants to kill a Florida black bear

He’s a Marine. A state legislator. A husband and father and a public adjuster. And now, State Rep. Frank Artiles (R-Country Walk) wants to be a bear killer. Among the nearly 2,000 permits pulled for the two-day Florida bear hunt being allowed for the first time in more than 20 years this October, is one […]

Jonah Wolfson shuts down shady Miami Beach PAC — $1.5 mil later

Jonah Wolfson shuts down shady Miami Beach PAC — $1.5 mil later

Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson announced Thursday that he was going to close down the shady Relentless for Progress political action committee he chairs and has been championing and defending for months. He says he will return whatever is left of the $1.4 million they had collected as of the end of July on a […]

Dems call Carlos Curbelo a ‘sellout’ in Labor Day ads

Dems call Carlos Curbelo a ‘sellout’ in Labor Day ads

To show what a big bull’s eye Congressman Carlos Curbelo has on his back, Democrats are spending money on negative ads against him a full 15 months before he faces a Democratic challenger in the 2016 election. To be fair, he’s not the only one. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released the Republican attack coupons […]

Julio Robaina, Eddy Gonzalez host Hialeah fundraiser

Julio Robaina, Eddy Gonzalez host Hialeah fundraiser

Former State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez, who everyone knows really wants to be Hialeah mayor more than anything else in the world, seems to be riding this city election out on the heels of last year’s loss in the property appraiser’s race. But he’s not staying out completely. And neither is former Mayor Julio Robaina, who […]

Is Carlos Curbelo a closet Democrat in disguise?

Is Carlos Curbelo a closet Democrat in disguise?

During the primary campaign last year, our new Congressman Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo painted himself as a conservative Republican and said attacks on him for being soft on GOP issues and aligned with Obama and former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist were slanderous. But since elected to the office in November, Curbelo has seemed to prove he’s a […]