Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, who campaigned hard for the taxpayer drain that is Marlins Park, and political advisor and labor leader Marcus Dixon are supposed to save the Florida Democratic Party from itself. On Monday, the FDP announced that Dixon, a Miramar resident and Florida executive director for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), […]
And the Democratic presidential candidate to open the first office in Miami is — drumroll, please — former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, whose surrogates celebrated the event with a salsa band outside — where else? — in the heart of Little Havana. This is where Bloomberg will likely get his 305 base, among the […]
The race in House District 103 may prove once and for all that money alone doesn’t win campaigns. Cindy Polo, the Democrat mom and anti-blasting activist who decided to run for office after the Parkland shooting, may have less campaign spending power than that of former Miami Lakes Councilman Frank Mingo: About $54,000, mostly in small donations […]
The days between Christmas and New Year’s typically make for a slow week in politics and government. So, there were fewer public events and photo ops than usual, so our new “Political pics of the week” segment — where we take a look at what our electeds did via visual images — is short, but […]
A couple of mailers in the lickety split Miami Lakes election are causing a little bit of tension among two one-time allies who are now running against each other in the crowded five-point race. David “Doc” Bennett has already sent out two mailers with photos of him and his family and him with two legislators […]