District 7 voters may get to know on Thursday, finally, who they collectively chose as new commissioner Tuesday to replace Carlos Gimenez, who resigned to run for mayor. Or they may still be in the dark if the Third District Court of Appeal upholds a decision by a Miami Dade Circuit Court judge to temporarily […]
Some might think former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina came out on top in Tuesday’s Miami-Dade mayoral race, getting the most votes of all 11 candidates. But, trust Ladra, it’s a huge political loss and Robaina is shaking his big, cheeky babyface today. Robaina, who enjoyed a 29-point lead four weeks ago, spent more than $1 […]
A judge on Monday told Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Lester Sola to keep the winner of Tuesday’s District 7 election a secret for up to a week — until he can hear arguments from a local TV attorney activist who sued when he tried but was not able to qualify for the race. That’s victory #2 […]
Both candidates for county commissioner in District 7 were in court Monday — but not in body. Former State Rep. Julio Robaina and former Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez were each called on the telephone — and put on speaker — by Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge William Thomas in the middle of a hearing for a […]
The latest campaign finance report filed by mayoral candidate Julio Robaina, whose resigns as Hialeah mayor today, has topped the $1.2 million mark. And that does not include the monies donated to two PACs run by his friends and supporters. That means he collected another $442,000 in donations. Even if all of them were the […]
That was not Ladra’s imagination, after all. Thought maybe election fever was getting to my brain and I saw signs everywhere. No, really. Political signs, that is. Even behind the Bulls basket at the Miami Heat game Sunday night. There was that nasty, angry, braided Bull, missing another free throw, and the Miami fans waving […]
No, folks, that was not Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, running for county mayor, at the JFK Library on West 49th Street in the City of Progress for the last day of early voting on Saturday. Ladra sped over there as soon as we got the tip, but didn’t make it in time and missed this […]
It seems that the only thing Hialeah Mayor and county mayoral candidate Julio Robaina can do these days to try to stop his spiraling numbers and keep the heat off him for possible ties to organized crime and a federal investigation into his finances is to go on the attack — again. A recent TV […]
Early voters in South Miami, Pinecrest and Coral Gables who cast ballots already for a new Miami-Dade commissioner in District 7, may have wasted their time. A circuit court judge could cancel that race on Monday. Attorney Ricardo Corona, better known for a late-night TV show that dispenses legal advice to call-in viewers, filed a […]
Former Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez, running for county commission in District 7, doesn’t want to work with the current board of his would-be colleagues. In fact, he wants them recalled like former mayor Carlos Alvarez and former District 13 commissioner Natacha Seijas. “We’re going to get three, four, five more commissioners out in the next […]