Waiting for the other shoes to drop from Frank Artiles arrest in sham senate race

Waiting for the other shoes to drop from Frank Artiles arrest in sham senate race

There could be money laundering involved here The news that disgraced former Sen. Frank Artiles was arrested last week on charges of campaign finance fraud has Miami’s political underbelly scurrying for cover. Because he was not alone, dear readers. There’s no way. Artiles had bragged about being behind the sham candidate in the Senate district […]

Raid on Frank Artiles home could be justice, could be political preemption

Raid on Frank Artiles home could be justice, could be political preemption

State investigates his involvement in sham senate race Former State Sen. Frank Artiles had his Palmetto Bay home raided Wednesday morning in connection with the sham plantidate that helped Sen. Ileana Garcia win the District 37 race against Jose Javier Rodriguez by a scant 32 votes. Investigators with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office took boxes […]

FL Senate 37 race heads into manual recount of 8,445 over and under votes

FL Senate 37 race heads into manual recount of 8,445 over and under votes

It’s now officially the fault of you sloppy people. The machine recount in Florida Senate District 37 was completed Wednesday afternoon and Republican Ileana Garcia, a Latinas for Trump founder, still leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez — by a scant 28 votes. The gap only shrunk by 3 ballots from the 31-vote difference […]

Miami-Dade and Florida Dems lose focus and key seats in epic fail election

Miami-Dade and Florida Dems lose focus and key seats in epic fail election

Stupid Democrats. They were so busy pushing unprecedented resources to get a blue, progressive, Miami-Dade mayor — dipping into other nonpartisan races, like county commission and school board contests — that they lost sight of the ball and gave up two key congressional seats, possibly a key state senate incumbent and at least two Florida […]

Republicans crush blue wave with red rush on South Florida Dem incumbents

Republicans crush blue wave with red rush on South Florida Dem incumbents

Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar go to Washington Two incumbent Democrat congresswomen were ousted in Tuesday’s election by Republicans and a blue state senator behind by 21 votes is headed for an instant recount in three shocker South Florida races that did not end like many political operatives and observers by had predicted. And […]

Six mayors in his state Senate district back incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez

Six mayors in his state Senate district back incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez

Six mayors in Florida Senate District 37 have endorsed incumbent Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez — and two of them are Republicans. In this hyper partisan atmosphere, and against the GOP’s handpicked challenger, Latinas for Trump founder Ileana Garcia, that’s like a coup. “Senator Rodriguez has always prioritized our constituents here in Miami during his time […]

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