Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the seven incumbent commissioners up for re-election raised more than $1.7 million between them in the first quarter of the year, according to finance reports filed this week. This includes the $635,185 raised between them in their respective campaign accounts and another $1 million plus in political action committee […]
Vince Lago PAC has much more interest money The campaign to recall Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is not really a grassroots effort. And it’s not very transparent. In its first campaign report filed this week, the End The Corruption political action committee chaired by longtime activist and perennial gadfly Maria Cruz reported collecting a […]
After reporting month after month with no contributions for more than three years, a political action committee for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle reported raising $182,000 in the last quarter of 2023. Add that to the $239,374 reported in her campaign account and Ms KFR has almost half a million in the bank already. […]
A new political action committee in Coral Gables has formed with the intention of getting three charter amendments on the ballot. According to it’s website, Accountable Coral Gables is promoting a change in the election date to November on even years — which there is already a petition being circulated for — the requirement of […]
Several political action committees had good quarters at the end of the year, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed in January, ending months of reporting zero contributions in some cases. Citizens for Justice, a PAC for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, raised $182,000 between October and November. It hadn’t reported any financial activity […]
He isn’t up for election this year, but Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s political action committee had a really good fundraising quarter at the end of the year, getting $202,066 in contributions in the three months through Dec. 31. What for? Maybe to pay the legal fees for his multiple appeals, since the days of him […]
The campaign finance reports filed last week by Coral Gables Vince Lago are pretty boring. He hasn’t raised any money either in his 2025 campaign account or in his political action committee in months, according to the most recent campaign finance records. Not that he needs to. He has more than $656,000 in the PAC […]
The city of Miami can stop paying Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s legal bills right now. Let him pay for his own appeal with the funds from his political action committee. Carollo, who has spent more than $2 million of the taxpayers’ money defending himself from a federal lawsuit he lost Thursday, has a neat $1,380,295 sitting […]
Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla sent out cards last week to wish voters a Happy Holidays. They were not only sent to District 1 voters, however. They also landed in mailboxes in Districts 2, 3 and 4 — it’s unlikely he would campaign in District 5 — in the first real hint […]
Campaign contributions marked by many special interest bundles Between his campaign account and his political action committee, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo has raised more than three quarters of a million dollars for his re-election this year in just two months, according to the most recent campaign reports filed last week. April was better than May, […]