Expect former Gov. Jeb Bush to talk about his family at the anticipated announcement this morning that he is running for president. Not just his famous father and brother, who have already served their own stints as the leader of the free world, but his Mexican wife who ultimately is what brought him to Miami […]
After lobbyist Daniel Diaz-Leyva lost his bid to unseat Democrat State Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez in District 112 last November, he pushed hard to become the Miami-Dade School Board appointee to replace Carlos Curbelo, who was elected to congress. He lost again when Gov. Rick Scott appointed Lubby Navarro, a Republican Party activist and Miami-Dade School Board […]
A group of Miami-Dade residents fed up with the county’s inability to follow through on its promise to preserve a rare waterfront lot behind the AmericanAirlines Arena as a public space are basically taking it upon themselves to make it a park. No, literally. They are simply using the space as intended. They have gone […]
Local Libertarians haven’t given up their efforts to get into office in the 305. Well, other than the one seat they have now on the community council in Fisher Island. In the last couple of months, ssince the election in April of new leadership, the Libertarian Party of Miami-Dade Libertarian Party has adopted a new […]
It stands out. Former Miami Mayor Joe Carollo — who lashed out publicly and loudly against alleged and rampant corruption in the city of Doral after he was fired as city manager — is on the payroll for the campaign to re-elect Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Tainted Boy” Gimenez. He’s been paid $6,000 a month for consulting […]
The new, half million Miami Beach PAC funded by vendors and special interests and chaired by the termed-out Commissioner Jonah Wolfson has also had some interesting expenses. My bad for not mentioning before. Ladra got too caught up in the specter of a possible shakedown scenario. And it could be a war chest for Mayor Philip Levine‘s […]
Sound the trumpets and break out the champagne! Our Miami-Dade State Attorney announced another public corruption arrest of someone stealing the taxpayers’ dollars, a public official on the take. But instead of looking into the lobbying connections at County Hall and kickbacks or the half a million in PAC money from Miami Beach vendors and […]
A new Miami Beach political action committee formed by Commissioner Jonah “Pottymouth” Wolfson, who is termed out in November, collected more than half a million dollars last month alone — some of it from vendors or entities doing business or wanting to do business with the city. And that has raised some eyebrows. Commissioner Deede […]
Alex Fernandez might be just a communications aide to Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa, but the longtime government worker bee — who landed there after former Commissioner Lynda Bell was beaten last November — has got some bigger political pals. Fernandez will wed his longtime partner Robert Wolfarth at a Washington, D.C., ceremony Monday (Congratulations!) to […]
During the next two decades or so, the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department will undergo and oversee the largest capital improvement program in the county’s history — with $13.5 billion in projects just in the southern part of the county. Members of the public will get a chance to hear about these projects — which […]