Phillip Levine goon boots Ladra from 1st Amendment event

Phillip Levine goon boots Ladra from 1st Amendment event

Oh, the irony! Millionaire businessman Philip Levine, who wants to be mayor of Miami Beach, had a press conference Wednesday to refute accusations that he seeks to silence critics and quash questions he doesn’t like, deciding for himself (read: decided for him by his handlers) who is a journalist and who is not. Or at […]

Philip Levine’s campaign of complaints seeks to silence us

Philip Levine’s campaign of complaints seeks to silence us

Miami Beach millionaire candidate Philip Levine and his campaign people have repeatedly tried to silence any criticism of his platform and hush legitimate questions about his motives or agenda. Levine’s attorney and former State Rep. JC Planas — who told Ladra his principal job is to ensure that laws are adhered to by both his […]

Votes trickle, pour in; Deadline for AB requests Wednesday

Votes trickle, pour in; Deadline for AB requests Wednesday

The deadline to request an absentee ballot for the Nov. 5 election is on Wednesday and with a week to go before Election Day, the county has already received more than a quarter of the ABs it has mailed out. Miami-Dade voters get to decide whether or not to fund $830 million worth of modernization […]

For Miami Beach mayor, third man Steve Berke is the charm

For Miami Beach mayor, third man Steve Berke is the charm

Steve Berke is looking better and better every day. Berke is the former comedian running for mayor in Miami Beach on a platform that advocates for decriminalized marijuana and a “2020 Vision” plan anchored by a skyline cable car system to boost tourism, which I thought was pie in the sky until he got the […]

ABs drop today in four cities and for countywide Jackson bond

ABs drop today in four cities and for countywide Jackson bond

More than 190,000 absentee ballots will be mailed today to voters in Miami-Dade County for the Nov. 5 question on the public financing of Jackson Health System’s modernization, which is being pushed by the same team of campaign consultants, more or less, who got Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez re-elected and got last year’s school bond […]

Philip Levine brings Bill Clinton as Beach bout money maker

Philip Levine brings Bill Clinton as Beach bout money maker

Former President Bill Clinton stopped by Miami Beach Monday to support millionaire candidate Philip Levine for mayor. So says former State Rep. turned lawyer to the pols J.C. Planas, Levine’s attorney and campaign attack dog. Planas posted a selfie he took of himself standing next to Clinton on facebook from “near Fisher Island” about 1 p.m. Monday, […]

Candidate Philip Levine’s handlers threaten political blogger

Candidate Philip Levine’s handlers threaten political blogger

Can Miami Beach mayoral candidate Philip Levine speak for himself? Apparently only when lobbyist and campaign consultant David Custin gives him permission. In my attempt to talk to a political candidate as a political blogger, I tried contacting his handlers, which include Custin and attorney JC Planas, who I called after Custin threatened and insulted me. […]

Anti-Hispanic race card pulled out in Miami Beach elections

Anti-Hispanic race card pulled out in Miami Beach elections

Two of the big profile candidates in the upcoming Miami Beach elections say that that other candidates, including their main challengers, are running anti-Hispanic campaigns against them. Mayor Matti Bower, a native Cuban who is running for commission, and Commissioner Michael Gongora, who his her hand-picked half-Cuban successor in the mayoral race, both told Ladra […]

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