It seems everybody knew who the new papi on the Miami City Commission would be even before the runoff last November. Former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla only got 39% of the vote Nov. 5 — but it was almost 18 points higher than the number two guy. So the writing was on the Allapattah walls. […]
The organizers of the recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo stood in front of City Hall and cameras and the world at an eagerly-promoted press conference Tuesday morning and pretty much showed they don’t know what they’re doing. They’ve got the passion, but they’ve been running around like chickens with no heads. And no […]
Well, if there was any question that newly-elected Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was big man on campus, it was answered Thursday, when he made himself co-chair of the Southeast Overtown Park West Community Redevelopment Agency and the city’s member representative to the Tourism Development Board. ADLP, who already chairs the Omni CRA, […]
Did any of you notice how quickly and efficiently City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla seized the power for himself and his faction on Friday? Without any discussion on the matter — and, in fact, interrupting the discussion about the manager’s resignation and the allegations about him — ADLP moved on the appointment of […]
The Miami city manager’s sudden resignation Friday has been an exit in the works for months, a power play so commissioners can bring in their own man, say several political observers and sources close to City Hall. Word is that man is Miami Parking Authority Director Arthur Noriega. Under normal circumstances, former assistant city manager Joe […]
P0litical strategist and organizer Juan Cuba, former executive director of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, has a great idea: Let’s recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo. And he is not alone. After a meltdown at the city commission meeting last week in which Carollo picked a fight with Chairman Keon Hardemon and then he and his partner in crime, […]
Talk about persistence: It took a fourth try, but former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla is an elected official again. It also took about a million dollars. But more about that later. In what Ladra is pretty sure is yet another sign of the apocalypse, Dean DLP won the runoff for the Miami District […]
Residents in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami know Commissioner Willy Gort. who is termed out after serving since 2011, and also from 1993 to 2000. But, with the exclusion of former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, many voters don’t really know the clusterbunch of wannabes in line to replace Gort. So the Allapattah YMCA […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who is running for mayor and unveiled her first TV campaign commercial during the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami last month, was not the only local candidate to take advantage of the huge audience. Another local candidate also aired the first ad of his campaign during the debate. No, […]
Former State Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla , now a city of Miami commission candidate, had his second best fund raising month in June, with more than $50,000 in additional contributions. That brings his total to just over a quarter million dollars, according to the latest campaign finance report. This would be The Dean’s fourth […]