If it wasn’t decided already, former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas pretty much cinched his way into the mayoral race runoff Wednesday night when he totally aced the Spanish-language mayoral debate on Univision 23, providing viewers with some inkling as to why he is consistently on top in the polls, on the eve before absentee or […]
The radio ad has been playing on Spanish-language and Cuban radio for more than a week. It warns voters to be on the lookout for absentee voter fraud and targets two Miami-Dade mayoral candidates who have had a history with it: Commissioner Xavier Suarez, who was removed from office in 1997 after the Miami Herald […]
The negative political ads and “anonymous” attack mailers have come out in the 2020 mayoral race, so far against two of the candidates — Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava and former mayor Alex Penelas. Over the last week, some voters have received one or all of three mailers — count ’em, three in less than a week — attacking Levine […]
The United Teachers of Dade, which represents more than 30,000 Miami-Dade County teachers and education professionals, will launch a series of daily “one-on-one conversations” with each of the county mayoral candidates beginning Friday afternoon (that’s today). “The effort seeks to increase civic engagement among all education professionals and secure more pro public education leadership for […]
Everyone’s internal polls have them winning the Miami-Dade mayoral election this year, and Commissioner Xavier Suarez is no different. He told Ladra that he was leading the other six candidates in a poll done earlier this month of 503 likely voters countywide. The survey by John Zogby Strategies found that Suarez had 21% of the vote. […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava is all in. The 64-year-old who wants to make history as the county’s first female mayor made it official Friday when she submitted her resignation letter to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, as required by Florida’s “resign to run” law. This also means that her seat officially opens up, and […]
While everyone was busy buying toilet paper for the coronavirus or trying to get the recall petitions against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo freed from the city’s grasp, Miami-Dade Commissioner and mayoral 2020 candidate Daniella Levine Cava sent out her first countywide mailer. It’s the first Miami-Dade mayoral race mailer that arrived at Ladra’s house, and […]
In a poem that sounds a lot like the décima rhythmic pattern of our Cuban youth, Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez released his first mayoral campaign radio ad Wednesday, basically mocking his biggest challenger in the eight-way race for county mayor, former mayor Alex Penelas. “Penelas, Penelans, que pena me das,” it starts, which translates, sorta, to “Penelas, […]
The invitation is striking because of the number of names on the leadership committee: 23 electeds, members of the Hialeah, Miami Lakes and Hialeah Gardens hierarchy, have invited their friends and favorite lobbyists to a fundraiser Thursday for Miami-Dade Commissioner and mayoral 2020 candidate Esteban Bovo at — where else? — Hialeah Park Racing and Casino. […]
Sheeeeeeeee’s baaaaaaack. Like an Asian virus, Gypsy con artist Vanessa Brito is back in Miami-Dade and ready to make trouble — this time, it appears, on behalf of former mayor Alex Penelas, a candidate for the 2020 mayoral election, and/or the Joe Carollo recall effort. Photos on her Facebook page — her personal page, not […]