Juan Cuba leaves Dade Dems for union job, doing the same

Juan Cuba leaves Dade Dems for union job, doing the same

A new year, and a new job for Miami-Dade Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Cuba, who quit the job he’s had for two years to join big labor as a political strategist for the Service Employees International Union. Cuba, who takes too much credit for the victories of Homestead Mayor Jeff Porter and Miami-Dade Commissioner […]

Millions raised in local House races — even non contests

Millions raised in local House races — even non contests

There’s been a lot of attention this election cycle to the mega spending done in the governor’s race and by the candidates in the congressional race for District 26. Millions upon millions in a record-setting year. But that Rockefeller attitude has pretty much trickled down to the Florida House races in South Florida. As of […]

Get in line! List of 2016 would-be mayoral challengers grows

Get in line! List of 2016 would-be mayoral challengers grows

Tuesday’s election isn’t even over and many political observes, pundits, junkies, consultants and potential candidates are already sorta looking further into the future — as in November 2016. Everybody’s talking about who might run against Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez, who thinks he’s got it in the bag and really needs to be taught a lesson. And […]

Annette Taddeo featured in her first Charlie Crist ad

Annette Taddeo featured in her first Charlie Crist ad

For weeks, Miami-Dade’s own Annette Taddeo has been crisscrossing the state to campaign as the running mate for former Gov. Charlie Crist, who wants his job back. The former chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party has  been talking up voters in person at rallies and in diners. Finally, almost three months after she was named […]

‘Fat Chance’ Dems in full House challenge doing next to nada

‘Fat Chance’ Dems in full House challenge doing next to nada

This is the story about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — if Snow White was a Democrat princess who empowered her dwarfs and made them feel big… just until the prince came and his kiss awoke her and took her away to state politics, leaving the little guys to mine for votes all by […]

5 questions for Charlie Crist’s new No. 2: Annette Taddeo

5 questions for Charlie Crist’s new No. 2: Annette Taddeo

By MARGIE MENZELTHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 22, 2014 — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist announced last week that his running mate would be Annette Taddeo, chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party and a political consultant’s dream: a Hispanic working mom who runs a successful small business and hosted her own show, Taddeo2Day, on […]

Charlie Crist names Annette Taddeo as running mate

Charlie Crist names Annette Taddeo as running mate

It had to be a Hispanic. Everyone has been whispering that Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairwoman Annette Taddeo Goldstein, who has been active supporting candidates but also on local county issues like taxpayer funded sports stadiums and the proposed cutting of library services by a mayor she said was stadium obsessed, was setting herself up to […]

GOP welcomes Dems to House races with glee, phone banks

GOP welcomes Dems to House races with glee, phone banks

Local Republicans said they were all too happy to see Democratic nobodies challenge six state House incumbent Republicans and one apparent successor in the Miami-Dade Democratic Party’s “No More Free Rides” campaign — a move that many have characterized as a publicity stunt that may have backfired. “They gave me a gift,” said Miami-Dade Republican […]

Oooops! Dems add Jeanette Nuñez to incumbent challenge

Oooops! Dems add Jeanette Nuñez to incumbent challenge

The Miami-Dade Democratic Party said Monday that they had found challengers for every single Republican incumbent in the Florida House — but they had actually missed one. Had they simply forgotten about State Rep. Jeanette Nuñez of District 119 in Doral? Or had they given her a pass because she backed the Miami Dade College […]

Miami-Dade Dems wage full House battle with 6 challengers

Miami-Dade Dems wage full House battle with 6 challengers

Thank goodness for the Miami-Dade Democratic Party! Our loyal, local blues turned what could have been a ho-hum year of mid-term elections with very few challenges at the state level into a full House partisan battle. Que fun! Now it’s a party. Dade Dems Chairwoman Annette Taddeo-Goldstein will publicly announce Tuesday, after a press release […]