South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard wasn’t on the ballot Tuesday, but he won anyway when his hand-picked replacement (read: puppet) Sally Philips took 34% of the vote in a five-way race to become the new mayor. Philips is lucky there is no runoff (don’t listen to the Miami Herald because they got it wrong) because the […]
South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard is stepping down (kinda) after 10 years in office because, he says, he is termed out. And on Thursday, city employees threw a retirement party for him at Jean Willis Park, which is right next to City Hall. “The city of South Miami employees are pleased to recognize Mayor Stoddard […]
The South Miami mayoral race has become, basically, a blood fight between current Mayor Phillip Stoddard — who is not running but has a puppet candidate in the race — and his arch nemesis, former Mayor Horace Feliu, who wants his old job back. It’s a five-way race but while the other three candidates knock […]
About 100 people — give or take a few dozen political operatives and candidate relatives — showed up Thursday for the fifth and possibly final candidate forum for the South Miami Feb. 11 election. And Ladra wants to thank South Miami Neighbors and the South Miami Elks not only for hosting the event, but also […]
South Miami is the City of Pleasant Living. Until election time. This week, voters got an attack mailer that targets three of the five candidates: Horace Feliu, Mark Lago and Lina Sierra. Is it just a coincidence that all three are Hispanic? They don’t think so. Was it a veiled message to keep Hispanics out […]
Something scary happened at the home of South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard on Halloween four years ago: a 16-year-old boy got sick from alcohol or drugs and ended up in the hospital, where he stopped breathing three times. Stoddard has been sued by the young man, who said the mayor let him drink alcohol and endangered […]