AFSCME Local 199 became the fourth union to settle with Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez when the administration and the union’s negotiating team reached an agreement Thursday. “We’re done. We’re finished,” said Andy Madtes, president of the union that represents the largest number of employees at about 9,000. “We got all of our […]
In his bid for the nomination to the Congressional race in District 26, Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo spent close to $1 million for the 47% primary victory Tuesday. But a lot of that money went to firms and consultants outside of Miami-Dade. While certainly the bulk of the money was spent locally, […]
UPDATED: Three of Miami-Dade County’s 10 employee labor unions have reached tentative agreements with a suddenly friendlier administration that they now have to take before their members for approval. Three more meetings are scheduled for today and it certainly looks like Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez is more eager these days to strike deals. […]
Commissioner-elect Daniella Levine Cava is not the only one who won Tuesday when she was able to get 52% of the vote in District 8 over incumbent Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell. And Bell is not the only one who lost something. Like always, there will be those who benefit from this regime change […]
No sooner had the results been posted online that U.S. Congressman Joe Garcia came out swinging in the general election race against Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo, who won a mandate from Republican voters Tuesday when he got 47% of the nod for the nomination. Less than two hours after precincts closed, Garcia’s […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo, who was hand-picked by the GOP establishment to pit against Congressman Joe Garcia in November, won by a near mandate 47% of the vote in the five-way District 26 Republican primary Tuesday. He only with a huge absentee ballot margin in Miami Dade and yet, more people voted […]
UPDATED: The final votes had not even been counted, but the hundreds of people gathered at the Palmetto Bay Village Center for the victory party for Daniella Levine Cava — a political neophyte who beat powerful Vice Chair Lynda Bell — danced anyway to a live band as elected celebrities started to pour in. And danced. […]
Judging from absentee ballots and early voting numbes, which have already been tallied, it was a good night for only three of the Miami-Dade Commission incumbents. Vice Chair Lynda Bell could be singing the blues. Bell, who was the only one facing a true challenge from neophyte social service activist Daniella Levine Cava, had an early lead […]
Is Ladra the only suspicious and jaded soul who thinks that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez scheduled a budget town hall meeting on Election Night on purpose? You know? So nobody would show up? The fourth stop on the mayor’s “Best Case/Worst Case Scenario” budget tour begins at 6 p.m. tonight at the Palmetto […]
More dishonest tactics from an increasingly desperate Miami-Dade incumbent Commissioner Lynda Bell? Among the poll workers who showed up at some of the polling locations in District 8 Tuesday were paid burly men wearing black t-shirts that made them look like police officers supporting her. But they’re not. One of the men posted at St. […]