Some say it’s a special election hundreds of miles away and can’t be compared to any race here. Others say it’s definitely a wake up call to Democrats statewide. But the victory Tuesday in Pinellas County where newly-elected Congressman David Jolly beat the much better funded former State CFO and gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has strengthened […]
A breakfast chat about minimum wage and labor issues hosted by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party has changed venues after it received notice that two employees at Versailles Restaurant had sued alleging that they were fired after reporting illegal activities there that included wage violations and accusations of sexual harassment. The event this coming Saturday, billed […]
Well, duh. It was very unlikely that the union representing Miami-Dade Police officers or the firefighters would back Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell — who has drawn the ire of labor leaders with her consistent votes against county employees — in her re-election. Wednesday, they officially endorsed challenger Daniella Levine Cava in the race for District 8. […]
Well, results for the “survey” distributed by lobbyist Jorge Luis Lopez, one of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s closest confidantes and favorite gala companion, came out Sunday showing that his readers prioritize traffic reduction, public/private partnerships and development at the airport. And Ladra is sure that it is just a coincidence that Lopez represents interests that would […]
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross seems to have given up on the grab for public funds for the renovation of his stadium. Now he just wants to stop paying almost $4 million in annual property taxes. Well, of course he does. Why wouldn’t he? If that’s good enough for the Miami Heat owners and the […]
In what looks, so far, like the most heated commission race in the county, both candidates have already collected more than half a million dollars between them — for a $6,000-a-year post. Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell has raised more than 50 times that much in her own campaign account and her PACs. Her […]
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson flew home to Miami for the weekend but not on a regular commercial or private airplane. Wilson (D-North Dade) accompanied President Barack Obama on Air Force One as the POTUS came to an event this afternoon at Coral Reef High School. She also hopped on the President’s helicopter, Marine One, to get from […]
Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo‘s little stunt to get out of a traffic ticket in 2012 probably cost him about 10 times as much as the original citation would have. Carollo, who apparently called the police chief in August of 2012 after he was stopped in Coconut Grove, pleaded no contest Wednesday to an accusation that […]
The residency rule passed by both the Florida House and Senate Tuesday has been touted as both a way to tighten loopholes that allow legislators to live outside their district and a measure that was not politically motivated. It is neither. State lawmakers may have been all high fives and back slaps after they passed the […]
State Rep. Jose Felix “One More Pepe” Diaz was already quite the connoisseur and promoter of the selfie genre — posting photo pics of himself on instagram and twitter on a regular basis. He almost always lands some image on Political Cortadito’s Pics of the Weeks. But Diaz hit the big time on Tuesday when […]