Former State Sen. Annette Taddeo announced Monday that she would run for Miami-Dade County Clerk and Comptroller against Juan Fernandez-Barquin, a former state rep that was appointed to the job by Gov. Ron DeSantis last June. This completes campaign consultant Christian Ulvert‘s dance card for 2024. He’s got all the five of the big countywide […]
Can you imagine a sports bar without TV screens? Neither can Fernando Yanes, the owner of Bar77 on Giralda, where fans can almost always find a football or futbol game to watch. Yanes has been working to make the TV screens up against his windows legal since code enforcement cited him last year. The city […]
Tricky Vicky is also under investigation by the Florida Bar Miami City Attorney Victoria Mendez did not have a good day Monday. First, the Miami Herald discloses that Mendez is under investigation by the Florida Bar for her potential part in a real estate scheme where homes that belonged to some of Miami’s most vulnerable […]
But Peter Iglesias has not resigned or been fired — yet It’s no secret that Coral Gables City Commissioner Ariel Fernandez is not happy with City Manager Peter Iglesias. He already tried to fire him once, and failed. Then they got into that nasty public fight on the dais at the last commission meeting. Now, […]
Several political action committees had good quarters at the end of the year, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed in January, ending months of reporting zero contributions in some cases. Citizens for Justice, a PAC for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, raised $182,000 between October and November. It hadn’t reported any financial activity […]
He isn’t up for election this year, but Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s political action committee had a really good fundraising quarter at the end of the year, getting $202,066 in contributions in the three months through Dec. 31. What for? Maybe to pay the legal fees for his multiple appeals, since the days of him […]
A new PAC for incumbent reported $375 in donations Former Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, who was forced out of office by term limits in 2020, made the long running rumors official Friday when she filed paperwork to get her old seat back in a challenge against Commissioner Keon Hardemon. This ought to be fun. Now […]
Commissioners wife’s bank accounts could be next Federal agents swooped into Coconut Grove Friday and posted notices on the door of Joe Carollo‘s house, beginning the process of seizure, ordered by the court to pay a $63.5 million judgement against him for violating the first amendment rights of two Little Havana businessmen. Well, he hasn’t […]
The battle cry is “Joe must go.” The aim is to remove Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo from the Bayfront Park Trust, where he is chair, because of what downtown residents say is an abuse of his power and mismanagement of Maurice Ferre Park, which is also under the trust’s purview. In the same 24 hours […]
He must have been joking, right? In his State of the City address Tuesday, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talked about transparency and public trust. “Public office is a public trust. We demonstrate that trust by regular disclosures and dedicated hard work,” Suarez said, and it just proves he doesn’t know what public trust is: Electeds […]