It’s over. There will be no runoff for the Miami-Dade mayor’s post. In what was not a close race at all, La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava won with 58% of the vote in the primary that ended Tuesday. Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid beat five other challengers to get second place and it was still […]
There are seven candidates on the ballot for Miami-Dade Mayor. But really, there are only two. Eddy Rojas, who owns a valet parking company, is way out of his league here. Alex Otaola, a Cuban-American actor, comedian and podcaster who doesn’t speak English, is out of his mind. Unfortunately, so are the hundreds who will […]
Because six campaign offices are apparently not enough, the campaign to re-elect Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava will open a seventh regional office this weekend. This one is in North Miami. The campaign has previously opened a headquarters in Little Havana with five other offices in Miami Beach, Liberty City, South Miami, Miami Gardens and […]
Incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has topped the $5 million mark in her campaign fundraising, according to a statement from her campaign received Wednesday. Levine Cava raised $650,000 in June, according to the press release. The next campaign finance reports are not due until Friday, but the DLC camp felt they had something to […]
Giving yet another indication that he is not a serious candidate for the Miami-Dade mayor’s seat, Alex Otaola, an activist, actor and podcaster with a penchant for the outrageous and a large Cuban-American following, chickened out of a meet-and-greet forum Monday that he had previously agreed to. Otaola told the president of the Kendall Federation […]
A trapeze artist in a war with the county who is running a symbolic mayoral campaign against Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was told last week that he can’t have his nickname on the ballot because it “is being used to mislead voters.” Miguel “El Skipper” Quintero has gone by that name for years, he […]
Property appraiser, commission wannabes will also speak at KFHA event Now that all the candidates are set with last week’s final qualifications, the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations will have the first candidate forum this Thursday with at least four of the seven Miami-Dade mayoral candidates on the Aug. 20 ballot. But probably not the […]
Recently suspended $2.5 billion bond is still an issue A political action committee supporting Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid in his bid to become the next Miami-Dade Mayor has launched two new web videos blasting Daniella Levine Cava‘s track record and baptizing her with a new nickname. “Disastrous Daniella passed Miami-Dade County’s largest budget and […]
She also has the backing of most municipal mayors Almost eight months until the November elections and incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has already sealed up the support from basically every labor union. Like that was even in question? On Tuesday, United Teachers of Dade – Florida’s largest teachers union and the fourth-largest nationally, representing […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid has had a Wikipedia page up since November. But a couple of days after Cid, who is running for Miami-Dade Mayor, launched a video this week about incumbent Mayor Daniella Levine Cava‘s $2.5 billion bond initiative, an anonymous editor “nominated this article for deletion.” Notes on the website page say […]