A mailer that landed in the homes of South Miami voters Wednesday tries to paint one of the candidates in next week’s special election as pro-development. But it was paid for by the same political action committee that smeared the three Hispanic candidates in the mayoral race last year. It is tied to former Mayor […]
Absentee ballots are already out for the Feb. 11 South Miami elections, where five candidates hope to replace South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard, a Florida International University professor and environmentalist, who is termed out. One of them is former Mayor Horace Feliu, who keeps trying to come back to office. Maybe the third time is […]
While our electeds in Tallahassee mess up a perfectly starter gun control bill with their crazy school militia program and GOP House members repeatedly oppose amendments to close the gun show loophole, Democrat candidates in this year’s state elections are taking it straight to the source — urging the Miami-Dade Youth Fair and Expo to cancel […]
Incumbent South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard was able to beat back a comeback attempt by former mayor Horace Feliu Tuesday night, winning the race with almost 53% of the vote. A third candidate got 7.5% leaving Feliu — who served from 2002 to 2004 and 2006 to 2010 — with just under 40 percent, according […]
Former South Miami Mayor Horace Feliu, who filed last week to run against incumbent mayor Philip Stoddard, has striken first with an email blast that gives voters — and the rest of us — a look see into the main issue of his campaign: Development. Or overdevelopment, as he sees it. “Our quality of life is […]
Former South Miami Mayor Horace Feliu filed for election to his old seat Friday against incumbent Mayor Philip Stoddard. Feliu told Ladra that he had been watching the development in the small city with a wary eye but that he made up his mind about the race after the police shooting last month of a […]
President Barack Obama was in Everglades National Park Wednesday to talk about climate change on Earth Day. Ladra does not think that it is a coincidence that this is the first time he visits the Everglades as POTUS — the year that two South Florida Republicans, former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, are […]
Happy New Year everyone. Yes, 2014 promises to be pretty exciting, politically speaking. Maybe not as exciting as 2012, but certainly more fun than 2013. We have the slew of state races in November, including the governor’s race, the Congressional contest in District 26 that will be watched throughout the nation, and six Miami-Dade county […]
The days between Christmas and New Year’s typically make for a slow week in politics and government. So, there were fewer public events and photo ops than usual, so our new “Political pics of the week” segment — where we take a look at what our electeds did via visual images — is short, but […]
Just a little more than two months away, campaigns are already heating up for the mayoral and commission races in South Miami, which is kind of like what Coconut Grove might be like if we let those artsy fartsy people form their own government. And it looks like it could be a real fun one […]