Ding, dong, the witch ain’t dead, folks. She’s only injured. Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell may have been defeated a the polls last week, bounced by voters that were tired of her self-serving, anti-employee rule. But Commissioner-elect Daniella Levine Cava is not sworn in until mid-November, which means Bell is still a vote on […]
Many of Miami-Dade’s much beleaguered labor unions started reaching hard-fought agreements with a compromising county administration. This came on the heels of their victory last week when they helped elect a newcomer and unseated an incumbent — only the the third time that’s happened since 1960. Coincidence? Probably not. It’s more likely that labor — […]
Commissioner-elect Daniella Levine Cava is not the only one who won Tuesday when she was able to get 52% of the vote in District 8 over incumbent Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell. And Bell is not the only one who lost something. Like always, there will be those who benefit from this regime change […]
UPDATED: The final votes had not even been counted, but the hundreds of people gathered at the Palmetto Bay Village Center for the victory party for Daniella Levine Cava — a political neophyte who beat powerful Vice Chair Lynda Bell — danced anyway to a live band as elected celebrities started to pour in. And danced. […]
Judging from absentee ballots and early voting numbes, which have already been tallied, it was a good night for only three of the Miami-Dade Commission incumbents. Vice Chair Lynda Bell could be singing the blues. Bell, who was the only one facing a true challenge from neophyte social service activist Daniella Levine Cava, had an early lead […]
More dishonest tactics from an increasingly desperate Miami-Dade incumbent Commissioner Lynda Bell? Among the poll workers who showed up at some of the polling locations in District 8 Tuesday were paid burly men wearing black t-shirts that made them look like police officers supporting her. But they’re not. One of the men posted at St. […]
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 […]
In what has become an increasingly ugly and partisan race for a non-partisan post, Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell — the only incumbent truly facing a stiff challenge — stepped up the heat in recent days, unveiling a TV ad that has none other than Republican Congressoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen endorsing the former mayor of Homestead and […]
There will be at least three more forums or debates for candidates this week. Ladra is going to have to find a way to be in two places at one time Monday when Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell faces off with challenger Daniella Levine Cava a second time. The debate sponsored by the Rotary Club of […]
The long-anticipated showdown between Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell and challenger Daniella Levine Cava came and went Monday night as each worked hard to turn the heat up on the other at the Kendall Federation of Homeowners debate. Levine hit Bell on the recent service cuts in police and libraries and the battle to balance the […]