Someone is polling in House District 113. And like every good Miami political ghost story, nobody wants to admit they paid for it. A text message last week led Republican voters in the district — which includes Key Biscayne, Little Havana, other parts of Miami and some Coral Gables — to a poll that asked […]
Only in Florida can candidates raise real money for an election that hasn’t been called, for a seat that’s already empty, in a district that will go unrepresented when the Legislature gavels in this year. Welcome to House District 113 — where democracy is on layaway. Nearly two months after Rep. Vicki Lopez vacated the […]
The day after Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins got into the runoff for Miami mayor Tuesday, the race to fill her county District 5 seat really began in earnest. First, Antonio “Tony” Diaz, who withdrew from the special election in Miami’s District 4 last June, filed his intention to run for the seat, which isn’t officially […]
With the Miami mayoral elections just weeks away, thoughts are turning to who would replace Miami-Dade Eileen Higgins, who resigned her District 5 seat to run in the city. The resignation takes effect after the Nov. 4 election, whether she wins or not. And everybody is betting that the commission is going to appoint someone. […]
After only raising a little more than $20,000 in his first month of campaigning, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro has withdrawn from the city of Miami commission race in District 3. Happy Birthday Joe Carollo. Barreiro had signed up to run against Miami Commissioner Crazy Joe last month and had said that Carollo needs to […]
The long-rumored challenge to Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is true: Former Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro — whose wife lost to Crazy Joe in 2017 — has filed documents to run for the seat in District 3. Barreiro, who resigned in 2017 to run for Congress (losing to Maria Elvira Salazar un 2018’s primary) was at […]
There wasn’t going to be a primary in the House 112 race — which covers downtown Miami, Shenandoah and Key Biscayne. But then the ghost of former Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro filed at the 11th hour to challenge teacher Rosy Palomino, a perennial candidate and president of the Douglas Park Neighborhood Association who has been […]
The organizers of the recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo stood in front of City Hall and cameras and the world at an eagerly-promoted press conference Tuesday morning and pretty much showed they don’t know what they’re doing. They’ve got the passion, but they’ve been running around like chickens with no heads. And no […]
If you had a political forum, and the Republican front runners weren’t there, did it still happen? We shall see on Monday evening when the Kendall Federation of Homeowners welcomes every Democrat candidate and five of the Republican hopefuls to the District 27 seat vacated by the retirement of U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. According to […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro — who was chairman when the Marlins Stadium deal was voted on and sort of ushered the process along — announced officially Monday morning, as expected, that he would be running for the congressional seat vacated next year by a retiring Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Immediately, one could hear a soft cheer throughout […]