With six months left until the Miami city election, the mayoral race is picking up some speed and urgency. There have been fundraisers and multiple TV and radio interviews. This week, three of the four other Miami City Commissioners said they are backing their colleague, Commissioner Francis “The Future” Suarez in his run against incumbent […]
Miami Commissioner Francis “The Future” Suarez posted another video on YouTube Wednesday in his campaign to unseat Mayor Tomas Regalado. Or, rather, re-posted an updated old video. The Suarez camp edited an earlier video about progress and cut out stills of Genting’s planned muti-million dollar casino resort that they wanted to build in downtown Miami. […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo finally came out of the political closet and announced he has a “congressional exploratory committee” and an imposing “finance team” working on his long-rumored run for U.S. Congress in what many state Republicans apparently view as the opportunity seat in 2014. Less than two weeks after Cutler Bay Mayor […]
After authorities get the phone records and after they get sworn statements from the half dozen or so politicians implicated in the absentee ballot fraud committed by Hialeah boletera Deisy Cabrera, maybe someone should ask her attorney Eric Castillo who he really works for. Castillo would not tell Ladra Tuesday who was paying him to […]
The recent stories in the Miami Herald about the notebooks kept by Hialeah boletera Deisy Cabrera, who was arrested last year carrying dozens of ballots during the mayoral election, have reaffirmed what most of us already knew: That she was paid by candidates and/or their campaigns to pick up absentee ballots from voters, many of whom […]
The vote tally seems like a mandate for the mayor’s mama: Sweetwater Councilwoman Isolina Maroño won the seat she was appointed to in her first election and by a landslide. Beating activist Deborah Centeno 72 percent to 28 last week is vindication for both the councilwoman and her son, Mayor Manny Maroño, who were both […]
Voters in Sweetwater will choose today between an incumbent commissioner who is also the mayor’s mama and an activist and political neophyte running mostly on an anti-nepotism, anti-corruption campaign in the only contested race in the city election. Or maybe they already decided. A little more than 1,100 of the 1,800 absentee ballots requested have been […]
As Ladra types this, Doral Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz is arriving at the city’s police station to file a harassment information report on City Manager “Crazy Joe” Carollo after another reported outburst with her and her “illegal” intern. She drove over from City Hall in a caravan after Carollo “stomped” into a conference room where she […]
Many suspected Doral was doomed to a downward spiral when Mayor Luigi Boria bought his election and then hired his campaign man, former Miami Mayor “Crazy Joe” Carollo, as the city manager. It is unsure, however, if anyone expected the slide to be quite so steep. Or so swift. The once-sleepy town of hard-working and/or […]
Not content in trying to put his own puppets in political office, which he miserably failed at last year anyway, automobile industry mogul Norman Braman is now endorsing candidates for local party leadership. District committeeman Emmanuel “Manny” Roman, who is credited with getting the Miami-Dade Republican Party to condemn the Dolphins Stadium deal and is now suddenly […]