After losing the congressional Republican primary to Maria Elvira Salazar, Angie Chirino — daughter of Cuban salsa sensation Willy Chirino — wants to run for Florida Senate in District 39. She joins Pinecrest Councilwoman Anna Hochkammer, a Democrat, in seeking the seat currently occupied by Sen. Anitere Flores, who is termed out and rumored to […]
We will have to wait until Friday to find out if political operative and campaign consultant Christian Ulvert became an elected this week after he got into a tie for the fourth and last council member slot in Miami Shores. Voters in Tuesday’s election had seven candidates on the ballot. The top four vote getters […]
In another close race mirroring the 2017 contest, Coral Gables Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli was barely able to hold on to his seat against former Commissioner Jeannett Slesnick. Now, we can’t say Valdes-Fauli won by a scant 187 votes anymore. Now, it’s a flimsy 123! Not really a mandate, is it? The margin is even narrower than […]
Even before 7 a.m. Tuesday, 4,287 voters had cast absentee ballots in the Coral Gables election. That’s almost 55% of the 7,835 ABs that were sent out. That’s the highest number of mail-in ballots returned in the City Beautiful in at least 10 years, maybe all of history. And more may arrive Tuesday. But while […]
It’s no secret that former Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner has been waiting for Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez to be termed out or make his move so she can run for the district seat. On Monday, she made those intentions clear when she filed documents Monday at the Miami-Dade Elections Department indicating she had opened a […]
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is looking into three mystery mailers attacking former Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera in Coral Gables and attributed to a political action committee that has said it isn’t involved. Attorney and activist Jack Thompson sent the SAO an email with a link to an earlier Political Cortadito post about the […]
The Florida Bar has opened an investigation into the homestead exemption fraud by Coral Gables candidate Jorge Fors, an attorney and former president of the Coral Gables Bar Association. After receiving a complaint from activist resident Jack Thompson, Bar Counsel Richard Coombs responded that they would look into the illegal homestead exemptions Fors claimed for […]
There is likely to be a runoff in the Coral Gables commission race after Tuesday, where none of the four candidates are likely to pull away with more than 50% of the vote. And when former Commissioner Ralph Cabrera is headed for round 2, as expected, he may be better prepared than whoever the other […]
Whoop! There it is! The latest campaign reports are in — the last ones before the Coral Gables election on Tuesday — and, just as expected, Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli got a windfall from real estate developers and the construction industry. More than $80,000 in seven days! That must have set some kind of campaign record in […]
Looks like the third time is the charm for former Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera. Even if it’s just through the process of elimination. Cabrera, an insurance consultant, has tried to get back on the dais twice since he left office in 2013. But both times he ran for mayor against Jim Cason. This time he is […]