Ouch. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen just showed the rest of the 305 political world how negative campaign ads are done with a commercial that has basically stopped her challenger, Democrat Scott Fuhrman, in his tracks. Ladra doubts that Fuhrman can come back from this. The ad doesn’t only remind people about Fuhrman’s old drunk driving charge. It […]
Not many people were surprised by the Miami-Dade County Commission’s decision Wednesday to ignore the petition of 127,000 voters who clamor for campaign finance reform in our pay-to-play county government. And it’s not like they didn’t have good reason. Even the petition gatherers — a group calling itself An Accountable Miami-Dade — had already filed […]
While everybody was concentrated on the primary last week, several Republicans without August challengers were eager to get to November, with mailers and TV ads already — since even before qualification and the Fourth of July. That would be State Rep. Frank Artiles, who is running for Senate in District 40 against incumbent Sen. Dwight Bullard, who won […]
There have been a few protests of Donald Trump‘s immigration positions and proposals at the Doral Resort and Spa he owns. Now, it’s his side’s turn to picket. Latinas Por Trump — “a 100% volunteer coalition of Latina influencers that networks and stays true to the promises created by the Trump campaign and the needs of […]
Gas to drive around to the bigger West Dade and Kendall precincts on Election Day Tuesday: $22. Bottles of water to stay hydrated: $10. Lunch at Subway: $8. The look on Barby Rodriguez-Gimenez‘s face when she realized her father-in-law, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, had not won the Miami-Dade mayoral race Tuesday and would be forced […]
You would think, from hearing Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez tell it, that he won the election Tuesday night. You would think wrong. Gimenez, who may very well be the first incumbent mayor ever to be forced into a runoff in Miami-Dade, can claim victory all he wants. It rings hollow. He may have come in […]
As if Ladra could get any happier Tuesday night, after the historic victory by Raquel Regalado, who forced Carlos Gimenez into a runoff that we know she can win in November. But then, Trust Fund Baby Andrew Korge — who shopped around for a seat he felt he could win and then spent $700,000 or more […]
Everybody knows already that I am voting for Raquel Regalado for mayor of Miami-Dade. I’ve listed my reasons for years, because it’s really a referendum on Carlos Gimenez and the lousy job he has been doing and the climate of pay-to-play politics he has created, all documented here. Just do a search on Carlos Gimenez. […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has siphoned (read: stolen) monies from the People’s Transportation Plan, approved by voters to build MetroRail extensions, and used it for operation costs. He raised bus fares in 2013 from $2 to $2.25 when he bought $40 million worth of new buses. And he has cut bus operations by $3 million […]
One of the scariest things that could happen Tuesday is that Trust Fund Baby Andrew Korge could actually win a seat on the Florida Senate. God help us all. Because he really doesn’t deserve it. Not only has Korge done nothing at all notable in his short adult life but live off his Papi’s millions, […]