Going against the incumbent, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has apparently endorsed former Miami-Dade School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla in the Miami-Dade Commission District 5 race. Oh, and it has nothing to do with the fact that it’s the boss’s baby brother. Naaaahhh. Suarez, who is now officially the new whipping boy for […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla is expected to return Sunday from a trip to Sarasota where he reportedly stayed at a $400-a-night golf resort and met with with Florida Senate President Bill Galvano at his family’s annual golf tournament to talk about Miami’s redistricting plan. Sources told Ladra that DLP left Thursday in […]
By Brandon Rosado for Political Cortadito Florida House District 120 — which encompasses the southern part of Miami-Dade, all of the Florida Keys and the Everglades — is a major flashpoint of the global climate emergency. The southernmost district is plagued by poor water quality and threatened existentially by sea-level rise while emitting carbon dioxide […]
As important as the presidential and Miami-Dade mayoral election are — arguably the most important in decades — candidates come and go. Constitutional amendments are forever. There are six amendments of the Florida constitution on the ballot that could change state policy on a minimum wage, voters rights and even how future amendments are brought […]
Sure, there’s the dog fight between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the cat fight between Miami-Dade Commissioners Daniella Levine Cava and Esteban Bovo for the mayoral seat, but there are also three county charter amendments that need voter approval to become reality. And they all should become reality. The first, county referendum 1, would […]
One by one, the mostly young, engaged activists who spoke before the Miami-Dade Commission at the first virtual public hearing on the county’s $9 billion budget said more or less the same thing: Move 10% of the funding from the police and corrections budgets — which take up almost half of the $2.2 billion general […]
The Miami-Dade County Commission will meet Thursday to consider the $9 billion proposed annual budget for 2020-2021– the first post COVID-19 budget and the last one for Mayor Carlos Gimenez and at least five commissioners who are termed out in November. And it won’t be easy. Gimenez said in his budget memo that his administration […]
Of the 3,743 voters whose absentee or mail-in ballots were rejected for some kind of deficiency, one number stands out: 10 were invalid because the voters were deceased. Yes, that’s right, the dead voted in Miami-Dade. Again. Sounds like an AMC movie of the week. If you remember, the 1997 Miami election was overturned because, […]
¿Ya pa’ que? For the third time in two years, the Miami-Dade Commission voted on Monday to institute and fund an Independent Civilian Panel to review police abuse and complaints. But it’s a much watered-down version with no real teeth to investigate anything. Too little and too late — because the panel becomes nothing more […]
UPDATED: There will be a press conference at the Miami-Dade Elections Department at 4 p.m. Wednesday to demand that the Supervisor of Elections count these ballots and request they “address valid voter suppression and ballot collection concerns” in time for the Nov. 3 election. Among those who will be present: P.U.L.S.E., South Florida National Action […]