A new poll of 2,000 likely voters done for a local television station shows that the owner of the Miami Dolphins has gained double digit support for his plan to use public funding to roof and renovate his private stadium. Disapproval for the deal to provide more than $289 million in bed tax dollars and $90 million […]
Politics really does make strange bedfellows. Ladra was already uncomfortable being on the same side as car mogul Norman Braman — whose heavy-handed meddling in the county commission races we have strongly criticized — on the Miami Dolphins stadium issue. Monday night, I found myself thanking David Custin, who has almost always been on the […]
![Told ya so: Dolphins stadium bill poised to pass [the buck]](https://www.politicalcortadito.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/0551-701x479.jpg "Sun Life Stadium")
Many people didn’t see this coming. The Miami Dolphins stadium bill to provide public tax funds for the renovation of the SunLife Stadium, owned by billionaire Stephen Ross, was described as a “longshot” with words like “dead in the water” and, then, “on life support,” coming out of the mouths of opponents, legislators and political […]
Even as the enabling legislation stalls in Tallahassee, early voting begins in Miami-Dade County today for the deal to provide more than $350 million in tax dollars to roof and renovate the privately-owned SunLife Stadium where the Miami Dolphins play. But already close to 13,000 people have voted. According to the running daily tab posted […]
Jobs, jobs, jobs. That’s the big pitch proponents of the public funding plan for the renovations at the SunLife Stadium are using to try to convince a reluctant electorate to approve $289 million in tourist tax dollars and $90 million in sales tax rebates for the billionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins. Naturally, because they […]
After paying nearly $5 million in a non-refundable fee for an allegedly “longshot” referendum vote, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has ponied up more than $1 million to sell voters on his plan to use public funds to upgrade his privately-owned SunLife Stadium. According to the campaign finance reports filed Friday, Ross put in the entire $1 […]
We better hope that car mogul Norman Braman and the headlines in state papers are right and that the twin bills in the state legislature that would allow the private owner of the Miami Dolphins and SunLife Stadium to get public funds for a fancy roof and renovations that include better lighting and fewer seats (more on […]
Ten days after she submitted petitions for the recall of Doral Vice Mayor Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera — and more than a week after she said the city clerk stole almost half of them — gypsy political con-artist Vanessa Brito still hasn’t produced the 1,936 signatures she claims to have collected. Or the 898 she says went […]
State Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez was one of the first members of the Miami-Dade delegation to publicly denounce the Miami Dolphins stadium deal as the scam it is and voice his strong stance against it. Now, he’s the first one to capitalize on that for his political future, which is probably the most vulnerable newly-won state […]
While it was definitely a mostly anti crowd at the Miami Dade Democratic Party’s town hall on the Dolphins stadium public financing deal, there was one high-profile local Dem who is thinks the agreement is wonderful. Democratic superfundraiser Chris Korge, who admitted that his position is based solely on the fact that it is good […]