It was no surprise to anyone to learn this week that both Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Joe Martinez and the county’s Property Appraiser Pedro Garcia filed court challenges to the Aug. 14 election that was tainted by absentee ballot fraud that is known and public and investigated. Garcia lost to termed-out State Rep. Carlos Lopez-Cantera solely […]
In the days leading up to the Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, las malas lenguas were saying in Miami that U.S. Congressman King David “Nine Lives” Rivera would not show up to the political powwow after the news last week that he was embroiled in a federal elections commission investigation into whether or […]
Yet another reason why the whole Aug. 14 election should be tossed out and a new one ordered: There are more absentee ballot fraud claims and irregularities in two state house races — one of them a Democratic primary with a new “absentee ballot queen” that puts the moniker right on her business card. Are […]
Surprise, surprise, surprise. It ain’t a politician or a political operative. It isn’t a party or a PAC. It wasn’t a union or former Miami Mayor Joe Carrollo who hired private investigator Joe Carrillo to follow a known boletera in Hialeah and, finally, open the Pandora’s Box of absentee ballot fraud that has permeated the […]
Even before the story in Thursday’s Miami Herald has her admitting that she went to see Deisy Cabrera the same day the boletera was popped by the Miami-Dade Police public corruption unit, Hialeah Councilwoman Vivian “I’ll Notarize That” Casals-Muñoz was up to her elbows in the absentee ballot fraud rampant in the City of Progress […]
Auto magnate Norman Braman and his sidekick gypsy conartist Vanessa Brito are two for two in their quest to control the county commission. But that’s okay because that means they don’t have a majority vote — even if they win the two runoffs in November, which is highly unlikely. This should be a loud and […]
More strangeness out of Tuesday’s election results revolve around the state house race in district 103, where the favored candidate with the name recognition was beaten almost too handily by the hand-picked puppet of the Hialeah hoodlum machinery tainted by the absentee ballot scandal. Ladra is looking at the lopsided results of the 103 race […]
Ladra smells a court challenge. Not only is there one candidate, backed by at least one employee union, but perhaps at least two candidates from Tuesday’s ballot considering a legal challenge to the election based on the evident absentee ballot fraud that may indicate wider electoral malfeasance. Commission Chairman Joe Martinez told Ladra before he […]
So, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Golden Boy” Gimenez seems so proud of tainted his re-election victory with 54% of the vote in a race marked by the dark cloud of boleteros and possible absentee ballot fraud. But you know what? If the ABs are tossed out — as they should be — there would be a […]
While all the hoopla about racial profiling is centered on the baddest sheriff in the U.S.A. and his anti-immigrant “crime sweeps” in Arizona, there is wide-spread bias of another kind happening in our own Miami-Dade County. I’m talking about doggie discrimination. I’m talking about pooch profiling. I’m talking about the ridiculous and arbitrary ban on […]