Dozens of Miami activists lay on the floor in front of downtown Miami’s Freedom Tower, staging a die-in to protest further abortion restrictions being considered in the Florida legislative session. The message: Banning abortion will lead to deaths. On International Women’s Day and 24 hours following the filing of House Bill 7 and Senate Bill […]
State investigates his involvement in sham senate race Former State Sen. Frank Artiles had his Palmetto Bay home raided Wednesday morning in connection with the sham plantidate that helped Sen. Ileana Garcia win the District 37 race against Jose Javier Rodriguez by a scant 32 votes. Investigators with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office took boxes […]
People are still dumbfounded. How could Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, one of the few lawmakers who wanted to fix the broken Florida unemployment system, be ousted by a Latinas for Trump founder who has no political experience? The answer is that Republicans put an NPA spoiler plantidate who was a GOP voter days before he […]
It’s now officially the fault of you sloppy people. The machine recount in Florida Senate District 37 was completed Wednesday afternoon and Republican Ileana Garcia, a Latinas for Trump founder, still leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez — by a scant 28 votes. The gap only shrunk by 3 ballots from the 31-vote difference […]
Six mayors in Florida Senate District 37 have endorsed incumbent Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez — and two of them are Republicans. In this hyper partisan atmosphere, and against the GOP’s handpicked challenger, Latinas for Trump founder Ileana Garcia, that’s like a coup. “Senator Rodriguez has always prioritized our constituents here in Miami during his time […]
One of the most important Florida Senate races to both parties this year, the open seat vacated by the term-limited Republican Sen. Anitere Flores, was always going to be a general election battle between current State Representatives Javier Fernandez and Ana Maria Rodriguez. The GOP is trying hard to keep the majority, which is at […]
State Rep. Javier Fernandez (D-Coral Gables) announced Wednesday that he will run next year in Senate District 39, where Anitere Flores (R-Kendall) is termed out and Democrats have a real opportunity to pick up a seat. But first, he has to move there. There is no other Democrat in the race now. Pinecrest Councilwoman Anna Hochkammer, another carpetbagger who announced in […]
After losing the congressional Republican primary to Maria Elvira Salazar, Angie Chirino — daughter of Cuban salsa sensation Willy Chirino — wants to run for Florida Senate in District 39. She joins Pinecrest Councilwoman Anna Hochkammer, a Democrat, in seeking the seat currently occupied by Sen. Anitere Flores, who is termed out and rumored to […]
Republicans have shot themselves in the foot. In just a few days, GOP legislators in Tallahassee. by forcing a program that puts guns in public schools, have done more for the Florida Democratic Party than anyone since Al Gore. When the Florida Senate voted Monday 20-18 to pass the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]
On Wednesday, a 19-year-old former student with an assault rifle walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County and opened fire, killing 17 people and wounding at least 15 more. On Thursday, at 1 p.m., the Florida Senate Appropriations Committee will consider a bill that would make it easier for convicted felons who […]