Meet Joe Garcia’s new guru… same as the old guru?

Meet Joe Garcia’s new guru… same as the old guru?

The newest member of Congressman Joe Garcia’s campaign team has ties to one of the oldest members of his campaign team. John Hennelly — a campaign consultant who responded to media questions last week about Garcia’s friendship and ties to former Congressman Bill Delahunt, an apologist and friend of the dictatorial Venezuelan regime — once […]

Poll floats Bruno Barreiro for Congress vs. Joe Garcia

Poll floats Bruno Barreiro for Congress vs. Joe Garcia

Add another potential name to the already crowded Republican primary ballot in Congressional District 26. A push poll over the weekend put Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro in the mix and, while some people might think that is laughable, Barreiro has set his eyes on Congress before. “Would you vote for Bruno Barreiro if you knew […]

Dem Latino star Joaquin Castro stumps for Joe Garcia

Dem Latino star Joaquin Castro stumps for Joe Garcia

Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo may boast having former Education Secretary Bill Bennett — um, who? — and Miami Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart — um, yawn — at a fundraiser later this month for his Congressional bid. So what? Congressman Joe Garcia, whose seat Curbelo hopes to steal this year, has U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, […]

David Rivera: Don’t count me out of the race just yet

David Rivera: Don’t count me out of the race just yet

While three Republican hopefuls — okay, five, but really only three — are vying for the chance to run against U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia in November, the longtime Congressman that Garcia toppled in 2012 to get there is not necessarily completely out of the picture. Ladra don’t call him King David “Nine Lives” Rivera for […]

GOP delegation, charter school folk back Carlos Curbelo

GOP delegation, charter school folk back Carlos Curbelo

A fundraiser later this month for Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo‘s bid for Congress reads like a Who’s Who of South Florida GOP politics. And, adding weight to arguments that the Republican Party has picked its primary candidate, it looks like practically the whole Miami-Dade Tallahassee red team is behind him. But, more interestingly, […]

MacDougall draws 1st blood: ‘Curbelo soft on Obamacare’

MacDougall draws 1st blood: ‘Curbelo soft on Obamacare’

Ten months out, the heated contest for the Congressional seat in District 26 has already gone into attack mode. And Cutler Bay Mayor Ed MacDougall — seen as the least likely of three hopefuls in the Republican primary, mostly because he doesn’t have a z or a vowel at the end of his last name […]

Norman Braman backs Ed MacDougall for Congress

Norman Braman backs Ed MacDougall for Congress

Another endorsement has come out in this year’s headliner of a race for the 26th Congressional District: Auto mogul and political meddler extraordinaire Norman Braman has already picked his horse among the three Republican hopefuls lining up to unseat Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia. Braman, left, is backing Cutler Bay Mayor Ed “Mac” MacDougall, right, […]

Told ya: Joe Garcia vulnerable in ‘likely to flip’ race

Told ya: Joe Garcia vulnerable in ‘likely to flip’ race

Ladra knew the Congressional race in West Miami-Dade, the GOP battle to take the seat from newly-minted U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, would be one of the closest watched races in the country because it is one of the seats Republicans hope to take back in 2014. I love it when I’m right. The National Journal […]

Congressional candidate Carlos Curbelo: ‘Get to know me’

Congressional candidate Carlos Curbelo: ‘Get to know me’

He holds the biggest campaign purse among the field of candidates and may have the bigger political profile on a national level. But Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo, who is running for Congressional District 26 in what most expect to be one of the hardest fought races in the country, wants you to get […]

Joe Martinez Congressional debut: More cake, less ‘punch’

Joe Martinez Congressional debut: More cake, less ‘punch’

It’s not the likeliest of starting points for one of the most closely watched races in the nation. But in shiny, new senior center, in a bright room full of viejitos and political nobodies, former Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Joe Martinez officially launched his 2014 congressional campaign Thursday. It’s “officially” because Martinez has been talking about […]