Make no mistake about it. Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava could have resigned in time for her replacement to run at the same time as the other seven commission races. Instead, her decision to defer the effective date may end up costing the county taxpayers nearly $1 million for a special election. Levine Cava has said […]
The third or fourth mailer from Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava landed in an otherwise lonely East Kendall mailbox last week. Because none of the other county mayoral candidates had sent a mailer to the three voters at this address until Wednesday, when we got our first piece from Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo. So, a little […]
A special election to replace Miami-Dade District 8 Commissioner Daniella Levine-Cava will cost county taxpayers almost $1 million — unless the commission decides to appoint someone to fill out the rest of the term. Many observers and some of the candidates who hope to replace Levine-Cava thought the commissioner’s resignation last month would allow for the […]
The United Teachers of Dade, which represents more than 30,000 Miami-Dade County teachers and education professionals, will launch a series of daily “one-on-one conversations” with each of the county mayoral candidates beginning Friday afternoon (that’s today). “The effort seeks to increase civic engagement among all education professionals and secure more pro public education leadership for […]
Everyone’s internal polls have them winning the Miami-Dade mayoral election this year, and Commissioner Xavier Suarez is no different. He told Ladra that he was leading the other six candidates in a poll done earlier this month of 503 likely voters countywide. The survey by John Zogby Strategies found that Suarez had 21% of the vote. […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava is all in. The 64-year-old who wants to make history as the county’s first female mayor made it official Friday when she submitted her resignation letter to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, as required by Florida’s “resign to run” law. This also means that her seat officially opens up, and […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime announced Thursday that he was suspending his campaign and blamed the coronavirus spread and COVID19 infections that have hit his community particularly hard. Yeah, okaaaay. That must be the new version of “I want to spend more time with my family.” Monestime, who still has two years left on his term […]
Updated: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an emergency order on Friday that suspends the Florida statutes that require a quorum be present in person for government meetings and that they be conducted in a specific public place. This means that the Miami city commission, which had been pushing for the approval, might be able to meet […]
While everyone was busy buying toilet paper for the coronavirus or trying to get the recall petitions against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo freed from the city’s grasp, Miami-Dade Commissioner and mayoral 2020 candidate Daniella Levine Cava sent out her first countywide mailer. It’s the first Miami-Dade mayoral race mailer that arrived at Ladra’s house, and […]
Ladra got the most interesting phone call Monday, on the eve of the first debate for the Miami-Dade mayoral candidates in 2020. It was a push poll, likely for former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas. Why? Penelas was the only candidate that my interviewer spoke positively about during a nearly 20 minute Q&A (okay it took […]