The primary presidential run is over. The Republican National Convention is yesterday’s news. On Monday, Sen. Marco Rubio will officially kick-off his Miami-Dade re-election grassroots campaign with a community rally in his hometown. One week before absentee ballots are mailed to 218,000 voters in Miami-Dade, Rubio’s home and stronghold, this event in West Miami is […]
A group of diehard Donald Trump supporters from the Miami-Dade Trump campaign are having a watch party Thursday night in Miami because its the next best thing to being there on the final night of the the Republican National Convention. “We can’t be in Cleveland so we’re going to get together here,” said former Palmetto […]
You could cut the tension in the room with a knife Tuesday night, when the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations had their first candidate’s forum and former friends Joe Garcia and Annette Taddeo faced off for what could be the first time in this election cycle — or ever. They are so used to working […]
Former Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Góngora keeps racking up those endorsements in his bid to become the next Florida Senator in District 38. But so is some young gun attorney named Jason Pizzo who nobody ever heard of before. It’s natural that Góngora would get his ex colleagues on the dais to join his team: Former Miami Beach Commissioners Ed […]
Not everybody was shocked by the news Friday that Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Zapata had withdrawn his candidacy and was leaving county government. Zapata — who has repeatedly expressed his frustration with the lack of transparency and the “cost of doing business” at County Hall — has had enough. “For the past four years, it has […]
Today is the last day on the Miami-Dade Trump Committee for the chairman, former Cutler Bay Mayor Ed MacDougall. Thursday, he will fly to D.C. to start working on the national campaign’s outreach. MacDougall will be meeting with the Republican National Committee to talk about taking his efforts with community outreach to a national scale. A […]
Death leaves Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, now unopposed, with four more years Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson has been de facto re-elected this week after her sole challenger, former El Portal Mayor Daisy Black — and Edmonson’s longtime nemesis — died suddenly and unexpectedly Wednesday. Details on the cause of death were still unknown Thursday, but Black was […]
Like a leapfrog, Andrew Korge jumped yet again this week from the Senate race in District 39 against Anitere Flores to District 40, where he has a primary battle against incumbent Sen. Dwight Bullard and former State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan. Korge has been shopping around for elected office since he first expressed interest in […]
Former Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora is running for the Florida Senate. Góngora plans to qualify Friday to run in District 38 in the seat left open by the sudden, under-pressure retirement of Sen. Gwen Margolis. The condo law attorney has stayed active after losing the mayoral race in 2014 to Philip Levine — who […]
The deadline to qualify for any one of the seven Miami-Dade County Commission seats up for election this year ended at noon Tuesday and three commissioners can breath a sigh of relief. Bruno Barreiro, Esteban “Steve” Bovo Jr. and Barbara Jordan are automatically re-elected because nobody dared to run against them. The three Bs — Barbara, Bruno […]