Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara Jordan — who has now had her independent police review panel vetoed by the mayor twice and has failed to get a majority to overturn it — needed eight of her colleagues to support her motion Tuesday to take the issue to voters in a ballot question. She only got seven […]
On the week after the vote-by-mail absentee ballots started to arrive in mailboxes, a couple of Miami-Dade mayoral forums got heated last week. It also became apparent in those debates and on TV appearances that collaboration with cities — as opposed to what the current incumbent Mayor Carlos Gimenez has done with the CARES COVID-19 […]
There are seven candidates in the Miami-Dade mayor’s race, but, really, we only count four. Three of them are not viable and won’t make much of a dent in the first round Aug. 18. Of the four who are left, two have been coming out on the top of most polls and are expected to […]
If it wasn’t decided already, former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas pretty much cinched his way into the mayoral race runoff Wednesday night when he totally aced the Spanish-language mayoral debate on Univision 23, providing viewers with some inkling as to why he is consistently on top in the polls, on the eve before absentee or […]
The COVID-19 response in Miami-Dade has been to take one step forward, two steps back. And Monday’s decision to rollback the reopening of our economy was no exception. At 10:15 a.m., financial experts were on Radio Caracol AM radio explaining the RISE Miami-Dade Fund program’s $25 million in low interest micro loans for local businesses […]
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 […]
The negative political ads and “anonymous” attack mailers have come out in the 2020 mayoral race, so far against two of the candidates — Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava and former mayor Alex Penelas. Over the last week, some voters have received one or all of three mailers — count ’em, three in less than a week — attacking Levine […]
Make no mistake about it. Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava could have resigned in time for her replacement to run at the same time as the other seven commission races. Instead, her decision to defer the effective date may end up costing the county taxpayers nearly $1 million for a special election. Levine Cava has said […]
The third or fourth mailer from Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava landed in an otherwise lonely East Kendall mailbox last week. Because none of the other county mayoral candidates had sent a mailer to the three voters at this address until Wednesday, when we got our first piece from Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo. So, a little […]
A special election to replace Miami-Dade District 8 Commissioner Daniella Levine-Cava will cost county taxpayers almost $1 million — unless the commission decides to appoint someone to fill out the rest of the term. Many observers and some of the candidates who hope to replace Levine-Cava thought the commissioner’s resignation last month would allow for the […]