Monday is the last day to register if you want to vote in the Coral Gables election April 13. There were 35,962 registered voters in the City Beautiful at the beginning of March, according to the Miami-Dade Elections Department. That’s a little more than the 33,154 who were registered at the time of the last […]
The mailer that landed in mailboxes Saturday calling Coral Gables Commission Group 3 candidate Alex Bucelo a puppet was paid for by former Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. What does Miami have to do with the Gables? Well, while he denies it to the end, Javier Baños, who is also running in Group 3, is the […]
All together, the 13 candidates in the April 13 Coral Gables election have raised more than $1 million — a milestone reached last month, according to the latest campaign finance reports. Leading the pack are the mayoral candidates, who between them, raised $121,240 just in February. Together, they account for half of the million dollar […]
Two of the frontrunners in the Coral Gables Group 2 commission race were the subjects of a mobile poll last week that tested negative messages against one of them. Voters were asked if they would be more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate if they had been “charged by Boston, Massachusetts police […]
Commissioner Pat Keon has drawn first blood in the mayoral race with a dark money attack mailer against Vice Mayor Vince Lago that calls him “a rubber stamp for big developers.” It’s almost laughable, because Keon is the development darling in the race. Lago has consistently been the lone no vote on several controversial developments […]
Please forgive me if you were at the Coral Gables Chamber’s candidate forum on Thursday and you heard Ladra snoring in the back row. Thank you, Chamber president Mark Trowbridge for the invite, but it was not worth risking COVID to be there live. I should have watched it on Zoom. Even Mayra Joli, the […]
The two newest candidates in the Coral Gables April election came out strong last week with their first month’s campaign finance reports, which were eerily close, and start off their respective bids with a bang. Tania Cruz-Gimenez, the daughter in law of the former mayor and current Congressman Carlos Gimenez, reported a total of $38,350 […]
This April’s interesting Coral Gables election just got more interesting: Mayra Joli, the “nodding lady” from President Donald Trump‘s Miami town hall earlier this year has joined the Group 2 commission contest. Jolly filed paperwork Tuesday to run in an already crowded seat that is shaping up as a battle between Jose Valdes-Fauli, the brother […]
So, that’s why we suddenly see the former Miami-Dade mayor’s son and his wife on these Community Newspaper Facebook chats doing their best to look like James Carville and Mary Matalin. Tania Cruz Gimenez is running for Coral Gables commission. Ladra was wrong when she thought, after running into her and lobbyist Carlos J. “CJ” […]
A long and complicated item on the Coral Gables Commission agenda for Tuesday has some residents worried that the city is trying to sneak some zoning changes in only two weeks after a controversial move to increase heights on Miracle Mile was temporarily stalled. But Vice Mayor Vince Lago and Commissioner Pat Keon both assured […]