Miami Beach Mayor Philip “Fix It” Levine wants more people to like him. Levine reached out to residents via one of his regular email blasts to ask them to follow him on twitter and Instagram and like him on Facebook and YouTube. “I began using Facebook and Twitter to send updates during my campaign for […]
It was a short-lived honeymoon and Ladra sees the pending end of the bromance between Miami Beach Mayor Philip “Fix It Phil” Levine and Commissioner Michael Grieco, who ran on the Levine slate last year to overcome longtime Beach incumbents. At Wednesday’s city commission meeting, Levine lashed out at Grieco for being the sole nay […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip “Fix It” Levine is a millionaire media mogul who bought his election and, in his spare time, bullies bloggers, the general media and city employees. Now, he’s also an author. At a neighborhood breakfast meeting at Manolo’s in North Beach Tuesday morning, Levine presented and signed copies of his new coffee table […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has proved, yet again, how difficult it can be for a millionaire businessman who is used to ordering folks around and getting his way to transition to that public servant role and follow the rules. Let me get this straight: First, Levine bullies and baits a police officer at the […]
A lot of our local electeds went to the Three Kings Parade last Sunday in Little Havana and several of them posted photos of themselves with each other. Nobody was more snapshot happy than Doral Councilwoman Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, who took photos with Sen. Rene Garcia, City Manager and former Miami Mayor Joe Carollo, former […]
Elected officials in Miami-Dade seem to habitually harass journalists on a regular basis. It’s like a virus or something. And it’s spreading. From Hialeah’s Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez having me followed by police and throwing me out of public meetings to newly elected Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine deciding who is a journalist and who […]
A new weekend segment on Political Cortadito will recap photos from the week that show our elected representatives in action. You know, kinda like a visual week in review. Ladra’s new walking on Instagram, but several politicos already use it — as well as twitter and Facebook — to let people know what they are […]
Almost everyone in the political 305 has the same basic theory about the very public and nasty breakup between consultant/lobbyist David Custin and campaign attorney JC Planas — that it has to do with newly-elected Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine. Oh, and money, of course. A couple of sources close Beach government have suggested that […]
It seems that campaign consultant David Custin can’t keep a long-term relationship with anybody. Word is that Custin and his attorney pal JC Planas, who share a multitude of political clients and most recently conspired, er, I mean worked together to elect Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, are at odds with each other. Is it […]
Maybe it’s the holiday spirit. Among the attendees Thursday night at the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s fourth annual LGBT Holigay Celebration and Toy Drive to benefit the Miami-Beach Police Department’s Toy Drive were newly elected Mayor Philip Levine and his campaign adversary, former Commissioner Michael Gongora, who lost the race last month […]