There are a slew of candidates in the upcoming Miami Beach election and Ladra doesn’t know them all. But one of them seems a little confused, or too emotionally and mentally instable to serve in office. Plus he needs tougher skin. Dave Crystal, who is running for commissioner in Group 1, shot off an email to […]
While there was a lot done and accomplished in Tallahassee when Ladra went up for Dade Days, there are regrets, too. Naturally. First let me say that I regret posting this so late. But there’s been an election in Coral Gables, posts coming about Doral and Sweetwater, and a lot of activity regarding the Dolphins […]
It is that season again. PAC season. Forget about the return of Mad Men. All the real drama in South Florida elections is about the return of PAC men. There are some important elections coming up — including the Dolphins stadium referendum, like, tomorrow — and of course that means that the political action committees, which are good […]
We all know that Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is rich man. And that is why some of us are having a hard time swallowing this idea to pour at least $350 million and possibly up to $400 million in public funds into his private stadium. No matter how much the community benefits from the proposed roof […]
Might we call it a fake punt? While the owner of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium seems to be putting an earnest effort into a public referendum that would get him $289 million in tourist tax dollars, it’s a known longshot. So maybe he’s really making a pass for a different kind of score. Because […]
Talk about manipulation. We posted the last piece on the referendum and why Ladra doesn’t like it before we realized that the last day to register to vote in the special, shotgun May 14 election on the Miami Dolphins public funding stadium deal is Monday. That’s right, only five days after it was approved by […]
There are so many things that are bothersome or just plain wrong about the Sun Life Stadium deal and the much-touted referendum vote for the public financing of apparently desperately-needed upgrades to the private home of our beloved Miami Dolphins, that this may become a Political Cortadito series. But, for the most part, the main concerns […]
Despite what the Miami Dolphins say on their website — that “nearly five hours of debate yielded a favorable vote” — there really was no debate before the Miami-Dade Commission gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a hotly-negotiated, “unprecedented” deal that will give the team’s owners a revenue stream of nearly $300 million to fix up the stadium. […]
Even without knowing whether or not the state legislature will give the needed green light, the owner of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium will have to plunk down $4.8 million this week to go to the cost of a referendum vote if they want the public to pay for up to half of the facilitity’s […]
Talk about putting the cart before the horse. Or, rather, putting the field goal before the end zone. Miami-Dade County Commissioners are poised to approve today Mayor Carlos “Not So Golden Boy” Gimenez’s much-ballyhooed “framework” for getting the billionaire that owns the Miami Dolphins up to $200 million in public money to renovate his private stadium, which […]