When Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez endorsed Esteban “Stevie” Bovo for county mayor, political observers raised an eyebrow. When his son, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, endorsed Renier Diaz de la Portilla in the Miami-Dade District 5 race, we did a double take. On Wednesday, former Mayor Alex Penelas — who came in third in the first […]
Nobody would say who is going to endorse Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava in her run for mayor on Tuesday, but it seems the big mystery is meant to look like it’s one of the other mayoral hopefuls who got cut out of the race last week. It’s not. Both former mayor Alex Penelas, the […]
After much hand-wringing and nasty, negative campaigns between the three front runners, the Miami-Dade mayoral runoff in November will see what could very well be the most negative and partisan mayoral race in our lifetime when two sitting commissioners and polar party opposites go head to head. Esteban Bovo and Daniella Levine Cava were practically […]
In what was likely the last televised debate of the four leading Miami-Dade mayoral candidates, the time and drama was dominated, yet again, by former mayor Alex Penelas and current Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo, who traded jabs and interrupted each other like they were alone on the stage. Ladra could watch Tuesday’s AmericaTeve debate again […]
In the final stretch of the Miami-Dade mayoral election, two separate internal polls put county Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava comfortably in the runoff. Former Mayor Alex Penelas — who came in third in an independent business group poll Ladra posted about on Political Cortadito Aug. 6 — released a new poll of 350 likely primary […]
Not everyone is doing terribly in the economic crisis fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The four viable Miami-Dade mayoral candidates have raised more than $12 million between them, and spent at least $9.5 million through July 31, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed Friday with the Miami-Dade Elections Department. The biggest bank belongs […]
A new third party poll by some independent business interest group has Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava leading in the mayoral race by a very small margin. And number two on her heels, according to sources who got the exact same poll results, is Commissioner Esteban Bovo. So we may actually be looking at a […]
On the week after the vote-by-mail absentee ballots started to arrive in mailboxes, a couple of Miami-Dade mayoral forums got heated last week. It also became apparent in those debates and on TV appearances that collaboration with cities — as opposed to what the current incumbent Mayor Carlos Gimenez has done with the CARES COVID-19 […]
¿Quién es mas malo? As early voting gets ready to begin on Monday, two Miami-Dade mayoral candidates are taking pots at each other in a pissing match about who’s the most corrupt of the pair. Hint: They’re both losers. Former Mayor Alex Penelas and current termed-out Commissioner Esteban Bovo have ramped it up at the […]
There are seven candidates in the Miami-Dade mayor’s race, but, really, we only count four. Three of them are not viable and won’t make much of a dent in the first round Aug. 18. Of the four who are left, two have been coming out on the top of most polls and are expected to […]