It opens up brilliantly on a pair of caged parakeets, birds that old Cubans love to keep and care for. And over soft music, the grandmotherly Cuban lady’s story sounds sad. It makes you want to cry. The first of several planned Joe Carollo recall ads with voter testimonials came out Thursday night about halfway through […]
Sheeeeeeeee’s baaaaaaack. Like an Asian virus, Gypsy con artist Vanessa Brito is back in Miami-Dade and ready to make trouble — this time, it appears, on behalf of former mayor Alex Penelas, a candidate for the 2020 mayoral election, and/or the Joe Carollo recall effort. Photos on her Facebook page — her personal page, not […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who has already shaken up the city quite a bit with his power grabs and grandstanding as the new boss in town — has introduced legislation that would limit the citizens ability to recall their elected officials to once per elected per year. This comes at the same […]
Who is the city manager of Miami? That’s what everybody wants to know. Officially, it is still Emilio Gonzalez, who resigned last month after Commissioner Joe Carollo accused him of fudging the permit for his deck and tried to fire him. Instead, the commission voted for the auditor general to investigate and immediately after that, […]
The grudge match between Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo and Mayor Francis Suarez — a Hatfields and McCoys style family feud that goes back more than two decades — ratcheted up a notch or two at the commission meeting Tuesday. And it may have pushed Suarez to back the recall effort against his (or his dad’s) arch […]
The organizers of the recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo stood in front of City Hall and cameras and the world at an eagerly-promoted press conference Tuesday morning and pretty much showed they don’t know what they’re doing. They’ve got the passion, but they’ve been running around like chickens with no heads. And no […]
But some voters seem scared to sign the petitions A mobile billboard with Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s face and a phone number to join the recall effort made its way around Little Havana streets Saturday and passed by the Barrios event on 5th Avenue that Carollo was supposed to attend. But one of the organizers […]
Organizers of the recall of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo already have at least $100,000 to advertise their cause and a contingent of supporters who could become candidates in a replacement election. Volunteers already collected more than 200 signatures last weekend on the first Saturday, said Juan Cuba, photographed here talking to the first group that fanned […]
UPDATED: It’s really happening. The recall effort against Miami Commissioner Loco Joe Carollo is gaining steam with the first canvassing for signatures on Saturday. And organizers are forming a formal political action committee this week. Volunteers have been told to meet by 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Domino Park, from which they will fan out into District […]
Well, if there was any question that newly-elected Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was big man on campus, it was answered Thursday, when he made himself co-chair of the Southeast Overtown Park West Community Redevelopment Agency and the city’s member representative to the Tourism Development Board. ADLP, who already chairs the Omni CRA, […]