The Cortadito Calendar: Some meetings and a holiday party

The Cortadito Calendar: Some meetings and a holiday party

Week two of our new feature, The Cortadito Calendar: A weekly calendar of political powwows, government meetings and events with electeds. Stay informed. Get engaged. If you know any political happening that should be included in the Cortadito Calendar, please email the information to edevalle@gmail.com. And thank you. TUESDAY — Dec. 13 2 p.m. — The Unincorporated […]

Michael Gongora wants Senate seat left by La Gwen Margolis

Michael Gongora wants Senate seat left by La Gwen Margolis

Former Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora is running for the Florida Senate. Góngora plans to qualify Friday to run in District 38 in the seat left open by the sudden, under-pressure retirement of Sen. Gwen Margolis. The condo law attorney has stayed active after losing the mayoral race in 2014 to Philip Levine — who […]

Will La Gwen’s retreat cause more musical chairs?

Will La Gwen’s retreat cause more musical chairs?

Everybody is wondering if the news Thursday that Sen. Gwen Margolis was withdrawing her re-election bid and retiring will cause Andrew Korge to switch seats again to the first one he looked at way back before he was a congressional candidate even. Or if it is causing State Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) to take […]

Doubletake: David Richardson jumps back to House for 2016

Doubletake: David Richardson jumps back to House for 2016

State Rep. David Richardson is delaying his bid for the Florida Senate seat in the best indication so far that rumors of Sen. Gwen Margolis‘ retirement are greatly exaggerated. Richardson (D-Miami Beach) may have bee under the impression in January that Margolis was not going to run for re-election when he opened an account for the […]

Alex Penelas crowd hosts Andrew Korge Senate kick-off

Alex Penelas crowd hosts Andrew Korge Senate kick-off

Andrew “Kid” Korge will kick off his campaign for State Sen. Gwen Margolis‘ seat with a party next week hosted by everybody and their mother. Or father, actually. No fewer than 88 people are hosting the event, and the list is definitely a throwback to the days of former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas. A one-time […]

Newby commissioner is David Richardson’s first Senate nod

Newby commissioner is David Richardson’s first Senate nod

Way more than a little early in the game, State Rep. David Richardson has announced a “key endorsement” this week in his bid to become a state senator: Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava. Say what? Levine Cava is the newest county commissioner and, as such, probably wields the least power on the dais. She is […]

David Richardson sets sights on Sen. Gwen Margolis’ seat

David Richardson sets sights on Sen. Gwen Margolis’ seat

The conversation is said to have started over a year ago, after Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) won his first election and became Florida’s first openly-gay state legislator. Several sources close to both he and Senator Gwen Margolis (D-North Miami Beach) — who has been in public office for four decades and is rumored on […]

Run, Alex, run! Ladra has a dare for Dean DLP

Run, Alex, run! Ladra has a dare for Dean DLP

While state house legislators and challenging candidates scramble to move into convenient or out of inconvenient newly-redrawn districts (more on that next), the clock ticks on a final Senate district map that has been accused, and rightfully so, of still protecting some incumbents, including Sen. Gwen Margolis (Dem., District 35)  in these parts. It will […]