Absentee voters in the special, shotgun wedding election for Miami-Dade Commission District 5 started getting ballots last week — and returning them, with 2,535 mailed back as of Monday. So, naturally, they’re also already getting campaign mailers in their mailbox. Every day. Sometimes three and four a day. Naturally, there are attack missiles against the […]
Nothing to see here, people. Move along now. This is what Coral Gabes City Manager Cathy Swanson Rivenbark was saying in her head at the last commission meeting when she rescinded her reprimand of the veteran, beloved police chief who was cleared of any wrongdoing when he stopped by an all female officer pool party last […]
Is the fix in for the next town manager of Miami Lakes? Lots of people apparently think so. Town Manager Alex Rey isn’t leaving until next March, and a selection committee that is supposed to keep the process super transparent and clean hasn’t even met once yet (it will next week) because Town Attorney Raul […]
Lobbyist Ron Book, who secretly worked against the Miami-Dade Commission during the last session in Tallahassee — even though we pay him to work for us — by sneaking puppy mill language into not one but two failed legislative bills, could have lost his juicy contract Tuesday to lobby for the county in Tallahassee because he […]
In the end, the Republican Party couldn’t fool enough NPAs into voting for their ringer and Democrat Javier Fernandez ended up with just over 51 percent of the vote. Fernandez will replace former State Rep. Daisy Baez, who resigned after she was caught lying about living in the district. He has to start campaigning again, […]
Nothing like a little fire under your, er, feet to get those contributions coming in, eh? Candidates in the special election for Miami-Dade Commission District 5 have less time than probably anyone in the history of special commission races to raise funds. The election is May 22. So, basically, they’ve had little more than a […]
Talk about being stuck between an evil rock and an evil hard place. Voters in Miami-Dade commission district five have a short time to come to terms with the limited and poor choices they have to replace former Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, who abruptly resigned last month to run for Congress — with the intent to open […]
After being a no-show at every debate and the Miami Herald editorial board screening, Andrew Vargas, the very shy Republican candidate in the special election for Florida House District 114 phoned it in on Actualidad Radio’s morning program last week, where the other two candidates had been debating (and egging him on) for almost 18 […]
UPDATED: Democrat Javier Fernandez is running against two Republicans in the special election for House District 114. The official Republican is Andrew Vargas, law partner of former State Rep. and U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, Donald Trump lackey Carlos Trujillo. The unofficial Republican is the alleged “independent” candidate, Liz de las Cuevas, who entered the […]
A political action committee that continues to attack the Democrat candidate for Florida House District 114 may not the only sign of dark money in that special election. The Republican candidate got a second mortgage on his home last December for $350,000 from the treasurer of another political action committee working on his behalf. The […]