Talk about persistence: It took a fourth try, but former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla is an elected official again. It also took about a million dollars. But more about that later. In what Ladra is pretty sure is yet another sign of the apocalypse, Dean DLP won the runoff for the Miami District […]
Residents in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami know Commissioner Willy Gort. who is termed out after serving since 2011, and also from 1993 to 2000. But, with the exclusion of former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, many voters don’t really know the clusterbunch of wannabes in line to replace Gort. So the Allapattah YMCA […]
March was another good fundraising month for former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who is running for the Miami city commission seat in District 1 and has raised more each month for a total of $142,000 in 90 days. The next biggest bank belongs to Miguel Angel Gabela, but he loaned himself $100K so […]
Former State Sen. and current Miami city commission candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla had another stellar month for fundraising in February, more than doubling his total to almost $86,000. But at least half of the $45,380 raised in February, according to the campaign financial reports filed last week, was through bundles, which generally indicate […]
Veteran Miami Commissioner Willy Gort will not get to coast into automatic re-election after all since he now has a real challenge from a former zoning board member who is running on a single issue: Crime. Miguel “Mike” Gabela, a real estate investor and auto parts business owner, filed to run in March but launched […]