Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and his new BFF, soccer star David Beckham will be promoting their plans for a Major League Soccer stadium on public land Wednesday. Opponents who are already calling this another case of “welfare for millionaires” because of the public land component might have a press conference to bash it on Thursday. Cutler […]
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 […]
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, […]
Miami-Dade County Commission hopeful Daniella Levine Cava, who filed Friday to run against Vice Chairwoman Lynda Bell, is set to announce her candidacy this afternoon, again, with a slew of “special guests” including local electeds and former electeds who, one would surmise, support her bid. But Ladra is curious about who is not on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s not really news that former Miami-Dade County Chairman Joe Martinez is going to run for Congress, even though he is only formally announcing it this morning at a West Dade senior center named after his mother. The news, for many, is that he is going to announce he is the frontrunner in a Republican […]
She may not be running for the seat, but Cutler Bay Mayor Ed MacDougall — who has announced his intent to run for Congress in District 26 in 2014 — seems to be campaigning against Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. And vice versa. MacDougall has asked Florida Gov. Rick Scott to appoint a special […]
One has to wonder why Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo is running so hard so soon. Curbelo, who is arguably the frontrunning GOP candidate in the Republican Party’s effort to take back the seat won last year by U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, has been on a fast track to the ballot — more than […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo finally came out of the political closet and announced he has a “congressional exploratory committee” and an imposing “finance team” working on his long-rumored run for U.S. Congress in what many state Republicans apparently view as the opportunity seat in 2014. Less than two weeks after Cutler Bay Mayor […]