This is the second time in less than a month that Political Cortadito writes about an upcoming zoning request before the Miami-Dade Commission to build 550 homes on the abandoned Calusa Golf Course, which has turned into an organic natural preserve that his home to endangered wildlife. Because the commission deferred the request last month. […]
Mayor Esteban Bovo, county commissioner Rene Garcia win one, lose one The two new councilmen voted to the Hialeah dais on Tuesday won their seats with pretty large margins. But it’s hard to call it a mandate when less than 9 percent of the registered voters in Miami-Dade’s second biggest city turned out. FIU student […]
Two ‘new’ commissioners the community already knows, and well Miami Beach voters chose two longtime City Hall regulars and resident advocates as commissioners in Tuesday’s runoff election — despite the deep pockets running against them. Former Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who left in 2018 to run for Congress, is back in office with […]
Hialeah council candidate Angelica Pacheco is trying to make herself the victim, but records show that she has victimized others. Pacheco went on Spanish-language TV and a sad Facebook interview in recent days calling the articles in Political Cortadito about her false and paid political attacks. Well, Pacheco lies. A lot. Documents don’t. And Ladra […]
Newly-elected Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo replaced Police Chief Sergio Velazquez Monday, but it reportedly had nothing to do with the dressing down of a sergeant at his swearing-in ceremony last week. Bovo relieved Velazquez of duty and named George Fuente the interim chief as he starts a national search for a new permanent top cop. […]
Just two weeks after, finally, announcing she would run for Florida Governor next year, State Sen. Annette Taddeo has already amassed more than $650,000 in contributions between her campaign account and her political action committee. This isn’t reflected yet on the Florida Division of Elections page, but her political consultant, Christian Ulvert, said it would […]
Angelica Pacheco, who made the runoff for a Hialeah council seat last week, was arrested twice in the past. Once for assault in what she said was self defense against an abusive man and once for child abuse in what she said was a misunderstanding. But she used a belt. Ladra didn’t even know about […]
Homestead Mayor Steve Losner hung on to his seat, winning re-election Tuesday by a small margin against former Councilman Elvis Maldonado, who had bounced back from a lost county commission race. Final score: 51 to 49%. The difference was a scant 69 votes. Turnout was abysmal. Just under 10 percent of the 35,408 registered voters […]
Chief Sergio Velazquez abuses his position to retaliate and embarrass Ending three months of medical leave for an off-duty injury, Hialeah Police Sgt. Marvin Alvarez was set to come back to work on Monday. But after attending the swearing-in ceremony Friday for newly-elected Mayor Esteban Bovo, Alvarez was relieved of duty — and stripped to […]
Hialeah Councilman Carl Zogby, the former police department spokesman, won re-election outright in a three-way Group 5 race Tuesday, with 57% of the vote. Mayra Jimenez got 27% and Salvador Blanco got 16%. But the other two council races, the open seats which had five and six candidates vying, are headed into a runoff after […]