Just because you got caught with your pants down around your cellphone and have to resign from office and apologize publicly to your wife, doesn’t mean you are down for the count. Politically, anyway. Former (read: disgraced) State Rep. Richard “Raunchy Richie” Steinberg is looking forward to 2016 and a run for his old seat […]
Oh, Ladra loves a parade! These processions of homage to a person, place or period of time are perfect stomping grounds for preening politicos who want to press flesh with the public. The 24th annual Martin Luther King Parade in Miami Monday was no different. Key to the scene were those city electeds who face the ballot […]
The spirited races in the city of Miami election just got a little more spiritual. Rev. Richard Dunn, a two-time former city commissioner, filed to run for District 5 on Thursday. “I just want to finish what I started,” he told Ladra Monday at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Parade. He wants to go back to the […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa became more than just the first Hispanic woman to be named chairwoman of the board of county commissioners Friday. She became the first chair to bring both a sitting U.S. Senator and a Florida governor to her swearing in shindig. Talk about palanca. Even Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who vows to have […]
Ladra is beside herself. Part of the reason this watchdog needed that short sabbatical I took the past few weeks was because of the guilt I feel over having let down the people of Miami Lakes. Sure, I was licking my wounds. Some of “November is coming” came and rolled over me. I was also […]
Either Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa is really as close as she represents herself to be with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio — who served on the West Miami City Commission when Sosa was mayor there — or she is the one with the good dirt on this high-flying cubanito with the hefty political clout. I mean, this onetime VP […]
Doral may another surprise on its roster, after having hired former Miami Mayor Crazy Joe Carollo as its city manager. Former Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito, another strong personality to add to the mix of Carollo and Mayor Luigi Boria, could be named Doral Police Chief. Talk about a political trifecta. Exposito, as some of you may […]
The payback is plain as day: Miami-Dade County Commissioners who voted against the installment of Chairwoman Rebecca Sosa were not given important seats — neither on committees nor on the dais. I’m talking figurative seats on committees and actual seats, for their butts, people. Not only does Sosa decide who serves on what committee — leaving […]
When former Miami Mayor Joe Carollo was taking newly elected Doral Mayor Luigi Boria, then a candidate, around during the campaign and helping him, he told Ladra he wasn’t being paid one cent. Looks like Joe Carollo knew he had something to be happy about way back at the swearing in of the county mayor […]
The future governor of this state came to town Wednesday, and none of usual suspects came to see him. In fact, the only elected at the meet-and-greet opening of the new Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs office in Doral with Ag Commissioner Adam Putnam was new Doral Councilwoman Christi Fraga. Well,for the whole […]