We’re drawing a close on the first month of campaign finance reporting for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the camp is really pressing to show a big start. Don’t know why. He already has raised $1.6 million in his Miami-Dade Residents First PAC (and spent $300K of that), and we don’t even know how many […]
So there is finally a doable plan to build a stadium and bring a David Beckham‘s dream Major League Soccer team to Miami and everyone can celebrate. Well, almost everyone. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez aka “King Petty” isn’t as excited as the rest of us. In fact, he’s pissed off. You might be, too, if after […]
If we are to believe the mayor or commissioners of Miami-Dade County, baggage wrap plastic is going to bring Miami International Airport down. Mayor Carlos Gimenez thinks that any regulations of baggage wrap are “ludicrous” and agrees with MDAD Director Emilio Gonzalez that it will make MIA the laughing stock of the aviation world to […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez had his big fundraiser dinner shindig Saturday night and — while he was surrounded by friends and fans, including a contingency from the PBA — did not announce anything about a highly anticipated potential run for county mayor. People left shaking their heads knowing only that Suarez might run someday for […]
Somehow, the rumor got started that Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez would make an announcement at his big annual fundraiser Saturday about whether or not he will run for mayor. Maybe it was the message sent to journalists on Friday by lobbyist Christopher Norwood that said Suarez was “seeking Re-Election to his County Commission Seat, but […]
The first email from Carlos Gimenez the candidate arrived Monday morning and it gave Ladra the shivers. Just in time for Halloween. In the email, Gimenez, who filed his account paperwork to open his re-election campaign for Miami-Dade mayor last week, threatens to continue on the same destructive, self-serving path that he has been on shortly […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez filed to run for re-election Thursday and it was treated like news. Didn’t everybody know this was coming? He’s been running for mayor practically since he was elected mayor in 2011 after the recall of Carlos Alvarez. For at least two months, the campaign has stepped it up with ads paid […]
If we learned only one thing from the final Miami-Dade Commission budget hearing Thursday night it is that every county resident should run out right now — do not walk — and buy a life jacket. Dozens of speakers begged the commission and Mayor Carlos Gimenez to allocate more than $300,000 on studying and mitigating […]
Speaker after speaker at the final Miami-Dade County budget hearing Thursday night begged Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the commission to allocate more funds to address the climate change and sea level rise that threatens to put much of Miami under water. Some discussed other items — grants for community based organizations, the Underline parkway initiative, […]
Last year, it was libraries and police officers. The year before that, the pets’ trust and firefighters. This year, we’ll likely still see the pet people trying to get the mandate from the people respected by our elected commission, but the new rallying call against the Miami-Dade County budget is climate change. Or rather the […]