The latest campaign finance report filed by mayoral candidate Julio Robaina, whose resigns as Hialeah mayor today, has topped the $1.2 million mark. And that does not include the monies donated to two PACs run by his friends and supporters. That means he collected another $442,000 in donations. Even if all of them were the […]
That was not Ladra’s imagination, after all. Thought maybe election fever was getting to my brain and I saw signs everywhere. No, really. Political signs, that is. Even behind the Bulls basket at the Miami Heat game Sunday night. There was that nasty, angry, braided Bull, missing another free throw, and the Miami fans waving […]
No, folks, that was not Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, running for county mayor, at the JFK Library on West 49th Street in the City of Progress for the last day of early voting on Saturday. Ladra sped over there as soon as we got the tip, but didn’t make it in time and missed this […]
It seems that the only thing Hialeah Mayor and county mayoral candidate Julio Robaina can do these days to try to stop his spiraling numbers and keep the heat off him for possible ties to organized crime and a federal investigation into his finances is to go on the attack — again. A recent TV […]
Former Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez, running for county commission in District 7, doesn’t want to work with the current board of his would-be colleagues. In fact, he wants them recalled like former mayor Carlos Alvarez and former District 13 commissioner Natacha Seijas. “We’re going to get three, four, five more commissioners out in the next […]
Former Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez came out swinging at Wednesday’s debate with former State Rep. Julio Robaina (Rep., District 117) and hit him right below the belt, making some in the audience of almost 30 people (minus campaign pros& reporters/bloggers) gasp. It would be easy for him, Suarez stressed, to “get along with the mayor […]
Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina is feeling no love from the other 10 candidates in the race to replace recalled Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez. At a forum Monday night presented by the NAAC, Robaina — who arrived late — got called “so close to” being a crook by Eddie Lewis, who ran for property appraiser in […]
There could have been three names on the ballot for the commission seat in District 7. Voters in South Miami and Coral Gables who think that on May 24 they may choose a new commissioner to replace Carlos Gimenez, who resigned last month to run for mayor, may have been ripped off — and could […]
With 11 people in the race to replace recalled Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez, the May 24 election is almost certain to be inconclusive. It’s highly unlikely any candidate will gather more than 50 percent of the votes, which is needed to win outright. A runoff election is scheduled for June 28. In that race, […]
Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, who has skipped (read: snubbed) several of the mayoral candidate forums or debates in recent weeks (maybe he’s too busy being mayor of “the second largest city in the county” until the day before the election), finally made it to one Monday night. But maybe he should have missed this one, […]