With less than two weeks before qualifying ends, Coral Gables Commissioner Mike Mena still has no opposition in his group in April’s upcoming election. And chances are it will stay that way because of his war chest. Mena has amassed $111,650 in contributions since last April, according to the last campaign reports filed this week. […]
Coral Gables resident and activist George Volsky got home one day last week and found a surprise in his front yard: A political sign for the campaign of Jorge L. Fors, Jr., who is running for commission. A note on the front door explained. “Thank you for allowing my campaign to place a sign on your […]
Of the three candidates (so far) running for the open seat in April’s Coral Gables election, the newby handpicked by the incumbent is winning the money race. In two months time, attorney Jorge L. Fors, who is backed by Commissioner Frank Quesada, who is not seeking reelection has raised almost $65,000. That’s incumbent money, $5K less […]
Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason and his dishonest campaign fooled enough people to win re-election comfortably Tuesday. But by a much smaller margin that shows he’s lost a lot of the voters’ faith. Former Commissioner Ralph Cabrera conceded at 8 p.m, an hour after polls closed, when only the absentee ballots had been counted and Cason […]
In what is yet another disingenuous move in what has become one of the most dishonest campaigns Ladra has ever seen, Coral Gables incumbent Mayor Jim Cason seems to have used a city photograph out of context for his re-election campaign. The photo is in one of three full-page campaign ads in the Miami Herald’s […]
As they go door to door, asking voters to re-elect Mayor Jim Cason, the incumbent’s volunteers are also promising voters that they’ll fix the sidewalks and potholes reported to them. Isn’t that a blatant and unethical abuse of his power? “As part of our voluntary work for the re-election of Jim Cason, we have to […]
It looks like a city-produced poster to celebrate the 90-year anniversary of Coral Gables. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the intent. But make no mistake: The enormous, twice-folded mailer that arrived at voters’ homes Friday and Saturday with the 27 official-looking photographs of the city’s best landmarks and the list of initiatives and […]
The bad news out of the Coral Gables Commission meeting when the expansive Mediterranean Village development was approved Tuesday, albeit with some downsizing: The height variance allowing developers to go two stories higher than the code permits could very well set a precedent that will give the city a hard time denying other developers the […]
Coral Gables Commissioners could approve today the largest single development project in the city’s 90-year history — a mixed use complex over almost 7 acres just east of Ponce Circle Park with 214 condos, 15 townhouses, 320,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, a 184-room hotel, a movie theater, a gym and offices to be […]
It’s a real shame that the last debate — if one can even call it that — of the commission and mayoral candidates in Coral Gables was so lame. With two weeks to go before the April 14 election, the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce event Tuesday night was a missed opportunity for the candidates […]