In the city of Miami special election, if we are to believe the text messages that voters are getting, we have a child molester, a communist sympathizer and an unethical attorney running for the seat vacated in District 2. Of course, none of that is necessarily true. It’s just part of Miami elections. The smearing […]
Add the International Brother of Electrical Workers Local #349 to the list of individuals and entities who have endorsed former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Martin Zilber for city of Miami commissioner in District 2. Likely under pressure — as the head of the IBEW is the father of a lobbyist who is pals […]
It’s official. As expected, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz is running for mayor of Sweetwater in the election this May. What else is he going to do? Diaz announced his intentions to run Thursday in front of Sweetwater City Hall, after he filed candidate paperwork, flanked by those he said support him “and my […]
The fourth time was the charm for the developers of the South Dade Logistics and Technology District, a 380-acre industrial and office park proposed on what used to be farmland — just over the Miami-Dade Urban Development Boundary. They got the necessary 8-4 supermajority, instead of the 9 votes they would have needed if the […]
The first and only gubernatorial debate between Gov. Ron DeSantis and Congressman Charlie Crist seemed to have the incumbent on the ropes. DeSantis sometimes looked like a dear in the headlights as he gritted his teeth and smirked at some of the Crist zingers. The biggest takeaway that everyone will be talking about Tuesday: DeSantis, […]
The incumbent is also the darling of Tallahassee political committees State Rep. Demi Busatta Cabrera — wife of political consultant and election denier Kevin Marino Cabrera — got elected two years ago after nobody noticed until too late that there was no real Democrat running in District 114 against her. Then she got a job […]
It reads like they were pulling teeth. A transcript of the sworn statement of Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla by an attorney with the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust shows how well The Dean can channel a hard-headed high school sophomore. In his signature sarcastic style, ADLP and his attorney Ben […]
There are eight referendum questions on the Miami Beach ballot, including two that are carefully camouflaged giveaways to rich millionaire developer friends of Mayor Dan Gelber. Even former Mayor Philip Levine — who was caught in a secret meeting with Gelber and developers trying to form a political action committee to turn South Beach into […]
Ouch! Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago must really not like Commissioner Jorge Fors. Because this week, Lago apparently endorsed his colleague’s opponent in the county commission race in District 6. In the Nov. 8 runoff, Lago instead backs Republican party operative Kevin Marino Cabrera, whose claim to fame was the day he tried to break […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez spent five hours in jail Tuesday after he was charged with unlawful compensation for having sponsored legislation to change county code restrictions in exchange for $15,000. Legislation is going cheap these days! Martinez told reporters as he left that he could not talk about the arrest yet, but would speak — […]