There are 17, count ’em, 17 candidates for the Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s election — so far. But only one of them scored what is likely the mother of all endorsements. Congressman Carlos Gimenez — the former county mayor who served as the de facto sheriff in that role — has come out for Miami-Dade Police […]
Parade of who’s who in the Florida GOP poured praise on ex POTUS What a difference six years makes. In 2016, when both Sen. Marco Rubio and a businessman named Donald Trump were competing for the Republican nomination for president, they called each other names and hurled insults at one another. “Little Marco,” as Trump […]
Anybody who wants to meet the Democratic candidates running for office in this month’s primary can find a bunch of them at Beat Culture Brewery Friday night at an event organized by Miami Cuban Dems. Among the confirmed candidates are two who want to reclaim congressional seats lost in 2020: Sen. Annette Taddeo, who is […]
Oh, the irony! Here was Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy standing in the Bay of Pigs museum in Hialeah Gardens, blasting the Cuban government — because, you know, he’s not going to get left out of the trend — saying that people are being picked up off the street as they cry for freedom, when the […]
By GUEST COLUMNIST George Volsky Statistics daunt. Early this month, more than 200 million cases of Covid-19 and 614,000 deaths, were recorded in 182 countries. These totals, believed to be considerably undercounted, unequivocally confirm that the pandemic that appeared to have stabilized at the beginning of the year, has surged anew. This is due mainly […]
Two of the frontrunners in the Coral Gables Group 2 commission race were the subjects of a mobile poll last week that tested negative messages against one of them. Voters were asked if they would be more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate if they had been “charged by Boston, Massachusetts police […]
The scariest thing about the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week isn’t how easily a bunch of freaking yahoos with bandanas and Army boots broke into the most sacred building of our democracy and desecrated it. Middle schoolers on the Close-Up field trip get more pat-downs and backpack searches than the bunch of misguided […]
Medical emergency my fat Cuban ass. Congressman (ew) Carlos Gimenez cancelled a television interview this past weekend because he was embarrassed, full of regret and genuinely afraid of how people, including his Cuban-American core voters, would take his objection to the Democratic process and involvement in what amounts to nothing less than a coup attempt […]
So, that’s why we suddenly see the former Miami-Dade mayor’s son and his wife on these Community Newspaper Facebook chats doing their best to look like James Carville and Mary Matalin. Tania Cruz Gimenez is running for Coral Gables commission. Ladra was wrong when she thought, after running into her and lobbyist Carlos J. “CJ” […]
Former Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell who lost her seat earlier this month to termed-out Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said she’s not even thinking about a rematch or challenging Sen. Marco Rubio in 2022, as some have speculated and, likely, prodded. It’s time to take a step back and look at what happened in congressional District 26 […]