It seems that more early voters are participating in city elections in Hialeah and Miami Beach than they are in Miami and Homestead. Of course, there’s no definitive way to know, because you can vote from pretty much any early voting location as opposed to just from your precinct on Election Day. And the Stephen […]
The political bomb that exploded in Doral last week has had its aftershocks. Already, there is an investigation into the campaign office rental of Mayor Luigi Boria and another inquiry on his links with a friend and property owner who bought the property from Boria’s children with money the mayor may have lent him and […]
Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador — who has diversified in the kind of shenanigans she specializes in — is the subject of at least two investigations into her campaign practices. One is sorta new and has to do with last year’s mayoral bid in Doral. One is sorta old and revolves around the alleged mingling […]
Steve Berke is looking better and better every day. Berke is the former comedian running for mayor in Miami Beach on a platform that advocates for decriminalized marijuana and a “2020 Vision” plan anchored by a skyline cable car system to boost tourism, which I thought was pie in the sky until he got the […]
An assistant of Doral Mayor Luigi Boria‘s, who had worked on his campaign last year, resigned Monday amid allegations that there were campaign finance law violations related to the rental of the campaign office. Gonzalo Bello, who pretty much ran the day-to-day operations at the shopping strip campaign office and later became the mayor’s administrative […]
As expected, Congressman Joe Garcia‘s former chief of staff pleaded guilty Monday to soliciting absentee ballots illegally without the voter’s permission in a deal where he agreed to serve 90 days in jail. Jeffrey Garcia, who was the congressman’s campaign consultant when he came up with the hair-brained scheme to send absentee ballots to low-performing […]
Thank God for the feds coming to the rescue. I’ll call them the cavalry. The scandalous claims that came out Sunday about former Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi wanting three years ago to plant cocaine on former Councilman Richard Pulido or take him out more permanently — as in hire someone to whack him […]
Looks like Congressman Joe Garcia‘s former campaign consultant-turned-chief of staff could be doing time. Jeffrey “No Relation” Garcia, who admitted immediately to a scam that generated hundreds of unauthorized absentee ballot requests in last year’s Congressional race, has reportedly reached a plea agreement and will be sentenced to 90 days in jail. His crime: illegally […]
Former Sweetwater Mayor Manny “Maraña” Maroño was facing federal extortion conspiracy charges for his role in a bogus grant application scheme in which authorities say he intended to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government in exchange for thousands of dollars in kickbacks. But Friday, Maroño — once on a rumored shortlist […]
Is she at it again? Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador is under investigation for co-mingling campaign funds from her judicial and municipal campaigns last year (more on that later). But that doesn’t stop her from flirting with the same kind of disaster for the upcoming Hialeah elections. Tirador doesn’t only represent Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez […]