Carlos Curbelo’s own words come back, haunt him in new ad

Carlos Curbelo’s own words come back, haunt him in new ad

You know how they always say your own words can come back to haunt you? Well, that would be Miami-Dade School Board Member and congressional candidate Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo today, after he sees the new 30-second video ad the Florida Democratic Party released this morning with his own bad choice of words almost on an […]

Dems ask DOJ to investigate Carlos Curbelo disclosure issues

Dems ask DOJ to investigate Carlos Curbelo disclosure issues

Someone finally took him up on his dare. Miami-Dade School Board Member and congressional candidate Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo has told everyone repeatedly that he will not disclose his client list for his lobbying firm, Capitol Gains, because he doesn’t have to. See? He put the company in his wife’s name so he could get out […]

Nice timing: Joe Garcia’s first radio ad follows headlines

Nice timing: Joe Garcia’s first radio ad follows headlines

Talk about good timing: The first Spanish language radio ad for Democrat Congressman Joe Garcia started to air this morning — same day newspapers arrived at homes with the front page headlines: “Lawmakers campaign aides called to testify,” it says in English. “FBI closes in on Joe Garcia’s aides,” reads the headline in Spanish. The […]

Things just went from bad to worse for U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia

Things just went from bad to worse for U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia

As if Congressman Joe Garcia wasn’t already in enough trouble. Facing a well-funded and heated challenge in what national observers call one of the most flippable races in the country, Garcia — who has been smeared with an absentee ballot fraud scandal in his 2012 victory over former Rep. David “Nine Lives” Rivera — doesn’t […]

Send a storm bill to Capitol Hill via Congressman Joe Garcia

Send a storm bill to Capitol Hill via Congressman Joe Garcia

Maybe Congressman Joe Garcia (D-Miami) can’t come up with anything else on his own. Maybe this is a way to engage his constituency in the usually droll work of drafting legislation. Maybe he really thinks someone in District 26 is a genius with the answer. Maybe it’s just a social media gimmick two months before […]

Carlos Curbelo slam dunks GOP primary with massive ABs

Carlos Curbelo slam dunks GOP primary with massive ABs

Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo, who was hand-picked by the GOP establishment to pit against Congressman Joe Garcia in November, won by a near mandate 47% of the vote in the five-way District 26 Republican primary Tuesday. He only with a huge absentee ballot margin in Miami Dade and yet, more people voted […]

Election 2014: Ladra predicts picks already made via ABs

Election 2014: Ladra predicts picks already made via ABs

While people are just getting up to go vote today in one congressional and several county, judicial and state races, it looks like the winners have already been chosen. That’s because there were nearly 83,800 absentee ballots returned and another 29,200 cast at early voting. A total of 112,981 voters have already made their picks […]

Win or lose: Carlos Curbelo’s hidden biz will haunt him

Win or lose: Carlos Curbelo’s hidden biz will haunt him

If it doesn’t cost him this primary today, the fact that Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo is hiding his client list under his wife’s skirt will cost him the general election in November. And it should. It’s sort of scary to think of sending someone to Washington who might be using his elected […]

10 reasons to vote for Ed MacDougall for Congress

10 reasons to vote for Ed MacDougall for Congress

This congressional primary is one of the most important votes that Republicans in District 26 can make. Because this November is the best chance the GOP has to topple Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, who will have a far less stressful re-election cycle in the 2016 presidential year. Ladra swears she entered this race with […]