First, Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera, who championed the City Beautiful’s domestic partner ordinance, scored the SAVE Dade endorsement for the upcoming mayoral race next month. Then, incumbent Mayor Jim “The Ambassador” Cason and/or his campaign quickly snagged the support of the Gables’ most prominent gay couple — renowned and enormously talented fashion designer Rene […]
The Coral Gables mayoral race between the incumbent newby and a longtime city commissioner might be seen as a referendum on City Manager Pat Salerno. Mayor “Ambassador” Jim Cason, a former chief consular official at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, is solidly with Salerno and, apparently, lets him lead. Ladra even believes Salerno was feeding him […]
With the Coral Gables election less than a month away on April 9, we are certain about getting two new faces on the city commission. Two new commissioners will be elected next month to replace the termed-out Commissioners Maria Anderson and Ralph Cabrera, the latter of which is running for mayor (more on that later). […]
Whenever it happens — whether it’s concurrent with November’s mayoral election or a special election right after or a special election next year — the race to replace Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez, who has challenged Tomas Regalado for mayor — may become the most fun to watch. And the most colorful. Because not only could Manolo Reyes, a […]
U.S. Congressman? Nah. Miami Beach commissioner? Nah. What is Republican wunderchild David Cardenas waiting for? The political prodigy — son of former Florida Republican Party Chair Al Cardenas, who now heads a national GOP PAC — withdrew from the race for Miami Beach commissioner in District 1 last month, less than a month after he filed to run. […]
He’s baaaaaaack. Tony “Phony” Vega, the gun dealer with the secret deal two years ago — in which he ran under Hialeah Mayor Carlos Castro Hernandez’s slate in exchange for a “fast tracking” of his gun range permit — has cast his hat back in the ring. This time, he is challenging Council Vice President […]
Ladra is still sort of giggling at the thought of a new cologne for men being produced by former Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez, who announced the possible mass production of “The Commissioner” and his congressional campaign against U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia simultaneously on Friday. But maybe the joke is on me — now that he is selling […]
Former Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Joe Martinez — who lost a bitter battle for the mayor’s job agaisnt Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez in the first round in August — has launched his campaign to run against newly-minted U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia. Oh, and he also wants to launch a cologne called The Commissioner. Who does Martinez […]
Longtime legendary GOP kingmaker Roger Stone — a veteran Republican Party campaign strategist for the likes of Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and both George Bushes— says he may run for Florida governor with the Libertarian Party. But fueling fire on arguments that the move is another one of his brilliant political strategies to hurt and draw votes away from […]
Mayor Carlos Gimenez has not started negotiating with the Miami Dolphins yet on their desire to have public funds pay half of the renovations at Sun Life Stadium. Does anyone believe that? He stressed this at the press conference Monday that announced the referendum on the matter and, while I may agree that there haven’t […]