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 […]
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 […]