Call me cynical. But doesn’t it seem like Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell — who is fighting for her political life in the most heated commission race this year — has had a slew of publicity stunt events in recent days? There’s no doubt that Bell is active year round, taking part in community events, working at […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Givewaway” Gimenez and several commissioners believed that they were about to dole out $62 million Thursday in gifts — well, grants from the Building Better Communities general obligation bond — to fund small economic development projects for neighborhoods from Palmetto Bay to Opa-Locka. Among those projects, there was $18.5 million earmarked for […]
Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell, in the race for her political life, raked in nearly $84,000 in campaign contributions in June — the most she’s gotten in a single 30-day period since February, the biggest month in her re-election bid, when she collected $133,000. In total, Bell now has $533,780 from her own campaign […]
Ladra told you it would backfire. The ridiculous attack on Miami-Dade Commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava for her $50,000-a-year job running a multi-million non-profit social service agency has really gotten more nays and shakings of the heads than concern or applause. Ladra thinks it shows a certain desperation by Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell, who […]
The latest attack piece on Miami-Dade Commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava says she made $50,000 a year to head the social services backbone of South Florida, which has a multi-million budget. This is bad? Okay, okay. Maybe Ladra is minimizing it a bit. The web video clip produced by Good Government Now — Commissioner Lynda […]
While it is not a partisan race, it is no secret that the Miami Dade Democratic Party is behind Daniella Levine Cava and her bid to unseat Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell, a diehard, right-to-life Republican. Dade Dems even released a web video on Thursday that accuses Bell of wanting to sweep arsenic at a school site under […]
It has become common for mayoral campaigns to climb up into the millions, but the Miami-Dade Commission candidates are also raking up record amounts of cash this year — most for races that have no challengers so far. In between them, the six incumbents up for re-election have a total of $1.7 million collected in […]
The email is almost breathless. “I’m not sure if you heard the news, but our campaign is under attack and we need your support,” read the email addressed to me from Miami-Dade Commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava. “Rather than starting with a positive message, our opponent has begun airing television commercials attacking me directly.” Levine […]
All this hand-wringing about the possibility of a Major League Soccer stadium at the Port of Miami may be for nothing. It appears there is not enough support on the Miami-Dade Commission for the giveaway of 20 acres of land at the port to make way for the development of a 25,000-seat stadium. Miami-Dade Mayor […]
County commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava submitted just over 1,200 signed petitions Thursday to qualify for the race in District 10 against Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell — more than the 1,100 she needed to get her name on the ballot. She also announced Thursday that she had raised an additional $54,000 in March, bringing its total raised […]