Not everyone is doing terribly in the economic crisis fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The four viable Miami-Dade mayoral candidates have raised more than $12 million between them, and spent at least $9.5 million through July 31, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed Friday with the Miami-Dade Elections Department. The biggest bank belongs […]
A new third party poll by some independent business interest group has Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava leading in the mayoral race by a very small margin. And number two on her heels, according to sources who got the exact same poll results, is Commissioner Esteban Bovo. So we may actually be looking at a […]
While Ladra has already made some endorsements and predictions for this month’s election, it might be a good idea to repeat them and add some others today, now that early voting has started. A lot of attention has gone to the Miami-Dade mayoral race, but there are also seven commission races and five of those […]
On the week after the vote-by-mail absentee ballots started to arrive in mailboxes, a couple of Miami-Dade mayoral forums got heated last week. It also became apparent in those debates and on TV appearances that collaboration with cities — as opposed to what the current incumbent Mayor Carlos Gimenez has done with the CARES COVID-19 […]
A group of transit-minded activists and volunteers have compiled the track records and positions on transportation issues for six of the seven Miami-Dade mayoral candidates, and former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas — who created the half-penny sales tax fund that was supposed to expand transit but got misused instead — gets the highest points on […]
There are seven candidates in the Miami-Dade mayor’s race, but, really, we only count four. Three of them are not viable and won’t make much of a dent in the first round Aug. 18. Of the four who are left, two have been coming out on the top of most polls and are expected to […]
The use of absentee or mail-in ballots has always been a concern in Miami-Dade, where veteran campaign consultants have manipulated these votes, particularly with elderly voters, for years. But a month from our first election in the time of COVID19, the Aug. 18 absentee vote will likely break records. According to Deputy Supervisor of Elections […]
If it wasn’t decided already, former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas pretty much cinched his way into the mayoral race runoff Wednesday night when he totally aced the Spanish-language mayoral debate on Univision 23, providing viewers with some inkling as to why he is consistently on top in the polls, on the eve before absentee or […]
The third or fourth mailer from Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava landed in an otherwise lonely East Kendall mailbox last week. Because none of the other county mayoral candidates had sent a mailer to the three voters at this address until Wednesday, when we got our first piece from Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo. So, a little […]
While everyone was busy buying toilet paper for the coronavirus or trying to get the recall petitions against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo freed from the city’s grasp, Miami-Dade Commissioner and mayoral 2020 candidate Daniella Levine Cava sent out her first countywide mailer. It’s the first Miami-Dade mayoral race mailer that arrived at Ladra’s house, and […]