There’s a little controversy brewing in Hialeah over county mayoral candidate Julio Robaina, the City of Progress’s former mayor, and it has nothing do to with loans or real estate or maquinitas. It’s all about a photo of some pre-school kids holding up pro-Julio signs that has made rounds on email and facebook, distributed by […]
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 […]
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 […]
After seven (seems like 17) different forums and debates in the last couple of weeks, Ladra feels likes she gets the gist of the 11 mayoral candidates because, well, they sound like broken records. Granted, most voters only go to one or two forums and hear the carefully prepared “messages” with soundbites and buzz words […]
Looks like Gabrielle Redfern is giving up on the race for the Miami-Dade mayor’s seat and is going after a county job instead. In transit, what else? The Miami Beach single mom doesn’t want to be mayor anymore. She wants to fix the public transit system she says works badly for too few at too […]
Forget Norman Braman and his considerably anticlimactic endorsement (though maybe not his money). Former Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez has another big advantage in his bid to become the next county commissioner in District 7: His son, Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez. The son is allegedly helping raise money for his father, whose giant warchest of $117,000 […]
There’s this great saying in Cuban — “como los pajaros tirandole a la escopeta,” which translates, really pitifully, into “that’s like the birds shooting at the rifles” but more literally into “the kettle calling the teapot black” (us Cubans have no teapots and the birds quote is more colorful). That’s how Ladra characterizes most of […]
Looks like another candidate has borne the brunt of the Brito Bounce, which is what Ladra calls it when PAC chair and political operative Vanessa Brito shows her traitor opportunistic stripes and betrays another one. Burned this time: Former State Rep. Julio Robaina, running in the District 7 commission race to replace mayoral candidate Carlos […]
Attorney Ricardo Corona, denied entry into the race for commissioner in District 7, has at least one ally in his quest to delay the race so he can get on the ballot: Former State Rep. Julio Robaina, who did technically qualify. “What they did to Ricky is a travesty,” Robaina told Ladra Tuesday night in […]
She may be small in size, but Gabrielle Redfern — the only woman on the 11-member county mayoral wannabe contest — has big you-know-whats. Repeatedly uninvited to candidate forums and debates, Redfern is likely the one responsible for getting all the B-list candidates into The Miami Foundation’s debate on the UM campus Tuesday. The next […]