Winners and losers from Miami-Dade elections are not just the candidates

Winners and losers from Miami-Dade elections are not just the candidates

The candidates are not the only ones who won and/or lost in Tuesday’s elections for county, school board, judicial and state offices. There are other victors and losers, also. People who will ride the winners’ coattails or who depended on the losers. Without further ado, here are Ladra’s winners and losers from the Miami-Dade elections: […]

More mysterious dark money attacks on Miami-Dade’s mayoral candidates

More mysterious dark money attacks on Miami-Dade’s mayoral candidates

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 […]

Miami Shores election ends in two incumbents, a newcomer and a tie

Miami Shores election ends in two incumbents, a newcomer and a tie

We will have to wait until Friday to find out if political operative and campaign consultant Christian Ulvert became an elected this week after he got into a tie for the fourth and last council member slot in Miami Shores. Voters in Tuesday’s election had seven candidates on the ballot. The top four vote getters […]

Political operative Christian Ulvert runs for council in Miami Shores

Political operative Christian Ulvert runs for council in Miami Shores

Longtime Democrat political operative Christian Ulvert — who helped put Sens. Jose Javier Rodriguez and Annette Taddeo, Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine-Cava and Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber into office — wants a seat of his own now. Ulvert is running for city council in Miami Shores and had his kick-off earlier this month. How many chips you think he’s […]

Michael Grieco best choice in House 113 race — because the others are worse

Michael Grieco best choice in House 113 race — because the others are worse

There seems to be another funky, mysterious political action committee working in Miami Beach for the state elections — but this one is against Michael Grieco, not for him. Grieco, the popular populist former city commissioner, was forced to resign and drop out of the mayor’s race last year after he got into trouble with […]