Not only hasn’t Miami-Dade Commission candidate Cindy Lerner — who, we already established, will say anything to get elected — apologized for verbally abusing a number of Pinecrest residents when she was mayor, she has doubled down and claimed it was an isolated incident with the wife of a nemesis councilman that has been taken […]
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 […]
The four Miami-Dade Commission races provide voters with the first opportunity in decades to redefine the dynamics on the board with at least three newcomers. And, hopefully, not all four. As folks get ready for early voting to start on Monday — filling out absentee ballots over the weekend to take with us — Ladra […]
Even Renier Diaz de la Portilla has realized he’s doomed to lose the race for Miami-Dade Commission in District 5 against incumbent Commissioner Eileen Higgins. That’s why he started drinking already. RDLP burst in late Thursday at the Urban Core Community Coalition virtual forum. He was a little erratic and disheveled with his face puffier […]
For more than four decades, the Dade Heritage Trust — with a mission to protect what little historic resources there is in Miami-Dade — has been housed in a cute little cottage by the bay in the Brickell area that was the 1905 clinic and office of Dr. James Jackson, Miami’s first physician, for which […]
When she was a preacher, former State Rep. Kimberly Daniels thanked God for slavery. As a Jacksonville city councilwoman in 2008, she voted against LGBT protections, equating homosexuality with bestiality and necrophilia. And on Monday, she endorsed Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “El Bobo” Bovo for county mayor. We know this because Bobo the bozo celebrated it. […]
United Teachers of Dade, the largest teachers union in Florida representing over 30,000 educators and professionals, released its list last week of Miami-Dade School Board endorsements for the November general election. Because three School Board members are leaving, this year’s vote will mark the school board’s biggest shift in representation in the last ten years. […]
As if we needed proof that the Miami-Dade mayoral race has become a partisan war, the Miami-Dade Dade Democratic Party, for the very first time, has paid to produce and air a television ad Monday for a candidate — for Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava. Sure, they’ve helped in the past but in the background, but […]
In another example of selective enforcement, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced Tuesday that it had charged Sweetwater Commissioner Sophia Lacayo with perjury for swearing that she lived inside the city — where she was elected in May of 2019 — when she really lives in unincorporated Miami-Dade. Lacayo was forced to resign as […]
Some of the Miami voters who signed the petition to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo have reported getting visits in the last week or so from young women who ask them to sign another form that, while it’s not clear right away, would recant their earlier pledge, according to several sources. That means that, even as […]