No sooner had the ink dried on the tweet by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announcing his run for mayor, did President Donald Trump jump to endorse him. The POTUS himself. It must have caught his attention when Gimenez announced the entry into the Republican primary in a welcome message to Trump, here for the Republican […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez finally announced his run for Congress on Thursday, with quite the dramatic flair. He did it via twitter with a new campaign handle, using the arrival of President Donald Trump — and immediately securing his endorsement — to try to shore up his thin GOP cred. “Welcome to Miami @realDonaldTrump. Thank you […]
UPDATED: Former Miami-Dade Commisioner Juan Zapata has dropped out of the county mayoral election after realizing that a countywide race was more difficult than he thought. He posted his exit on Facebook around 9 a.m: Dear Friends, Regrettably things did not come together the way I would have liked and that a campaign of this […]
Well, if there was any question that newly-elected Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was big man on campus, it was answered Thursday, when he made himself co-chair of the Southeast Overtown Park West Community Redevelopment Agency and the city’s member representative to the Tourism Development Board. ADLP, who already chairs the Omni CRA, […]
Is Alice Bravo the next Miami city manager? Hundreds of morning commuters were running late to work Tuesday after trains were delayed, leaving them stranded at some northbound stations for about an hour. Not a single person more fit on the platform at Dadeland North about 8:30 a.m., where the riders were so deep they […]
Another one bites the dust: former Miami Beach Commissioner John Elizabeth Aleman, who had been selected as the executive director of the Miami Downtown Development Authority, resigned from her unconfirmed position Tuesday, because of the tenure (read: power shift) at City Hall. “I have concluded that the prospect of working within the current political climate is […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo may have forced the city manager, and probably the city’s building director, to resign, and he may have his sights on Police Chief Jorge Colina. But it’s only because they are part of the administration’s leadership team. Carollo is really after Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. This week, the commissioner — empowered […]
UPDATED: Miami City Manager Emilio Gonzalez, who resigned under political pressure last week — and said Sunday that he will probably leave within a couple of weeks — will not finally get a chance to speak to his bosses on Thursday and publicly address allegations that he abused his office. We’ll have to make do for […]
Did any of you notice how quickly and efficiently City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla seized the power for himself and his faction on Friday? Without any discussion on the matter — and, in fact, interrupting the discussion about the manager’s resignation and the allegations about him — ADLP moved on the appointment of […]
Text messages don’t lie: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has been caught using several members of his publicly paid senior staff to basically work on his suddenly-halted and possibly aborted congressional campaign. And the executive director of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust, Jose Arrojo, said they would investigate. An ethics complaint filed Friday […]