Social media has a new contributor on the Miami Dolphins publicly-funded stadium scam. Over the last 24 hours, a new twitter user has surfaced, calling him or herself @FreedomNews305. But it has offered no news, just slams on car mogul and political meddler Norman Braman, who is the biggest threat — but only because he […]
Don’t take Ladra’s word for it. Learn the details of the Miami Dolphins publicly-financed stadium scam, er, I mean deal at one of several community meetings — scheduled as the absentee ballots drop less than three weeks from Election Day — that both the pro and con sides will be at to sway, er, I mean […]
State legislators have alternately used the words “dead” and “on life support” when talking to me about the Miami Dolphins public-money-for-private stadiums bill. Which may be good news. May be. Because I have a sinking sensation that there’s another political bait and switch in the works and we all may be hit with a surprise by the end of session next […]
Shhhh. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of absentee ballots arriving in our mailboxes. The ballots were mailed today, which means voters get them Wednesday and Thursday. And, yes, that is why we heard the pro-Miami Dolphins stadium public financing scam commercial on Cuban radio this morning (more on that later). And while special […]
Doral exploded alright. And the sparks seem like they will continue to fly for at least a few days. But it wasn’t, as expected, because of the kinetic energy between the two alpha males — Mayor Luigi Boria and City Manager Joe Carollo. I thought they would get into a mess all by themselves. Nah. They never stood a […]
The elections in Miami are interesting all over. Not just in the mayor’s race. We have three commission seats in play. One crowded field to replace Commissioner Francis Suarez, who is challenging the mayor. Two incumbents are fighting to stay in place. And one of those, Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones — who was suspended for 19 months while […]
Former Hialeah Police Det. Ricky Garcia, a longtime critic of Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and the Seguro Que Yes Council, has decided who he is going to challenge for a seat on the city dais: Councilman Paul “Pablitiquito” Hernandez, who was first appointed to the seat by the mayor. Garcia had expressed his intent to […]
Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez seems to have struck campaign gold. All he had to do was announce in January that the long whispered rumors were true and he was, indeed, going to ignore the advice of those who said “wait” and run for mayor now, not later, and the coin started to rain down on […]
Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa‘s longtime campaign manager, Roly Marante — standing to her right in this photo — has been hired to do the Hispanic part of the Dolphin stadium referendum campaign. So the owners of the football team and the and the proponents of the public financing of that upgrade to their privately-owned […]
We keep hearing about how the tourist tax dip and state sales tax rebate negotiated between the Miami Dolphins and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez doesn’t stand a chance in Tallahassee, where it has to pass the legislature in order for the referendum votes — that start next week when absentee ballots hit the street Tuesday — […]