Finally a debate! Miami Commission candidates face off before runoff

Finally a debate! Miami Commission candidates face off before runoff

Sabina Covo and Damian Pardo to answer questions A debate between the two commission candidates in Miami’s District 2 — incumbent Sabina Covo and banker and activist Damian Pardo — has been rescheduled from Tuesday to Friday, which is when the three-day early voting period begins. Covo, who won her seat over 12 others in […]

Sabina Covo leads Miami District 2 candidates in campaign fundraising

Sabina Covo leads Miami District 2 candidates in campaign fundraising

Miami Commissioner Sabina Covo, who won a special election in February to replace Commissioner Ken Russell, who resigned to run unsuccessfully for Congress, is raising money like a real incumbent. Between her campaign account ($69,400) and her political action committee, Dream Miami ($238,150), she’s got more than $300K raised so far, according to her latest […]

Martin Zilber complains about election in crybaby letter to editor — from Paris

Martin Zilber complains about election in crybaby letter to editor — from Paris

Did anybody see Martin Zilber‘s letter to the editor in Tuesday’s Miami Herald? It proves he is delusional. Zilber, the disgraced former Miami-Dade Circuit judge who resigned after an ethics investigation found he mistreated staff and stole $30,000 from taxpayers playing hooky, lost the special election to fill the seat in Miami’s District 2, where […]

Sabina Covo beats 12 others to win the special election in Miami’s District 2

Sabina Covo beats 12 others to win the special election in Miami’s District 2

After what must be the shortest campaign cycle in the city’s history, Sabina Covo won Miami’s special election in District 2. The TV journalist turned communications pro will fill the vacancy created when Ken Russell resigned to run for Congress (and lost). Covo, who was endorsed by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava […]

Low turnout in Miami special election so far with Election Day 24 hours away

Low turnout in Miami special election so far with Election Day 24 hours away

Early voting for the Miami special election to fill the vacant commission seat ended Saturday, with a scant 851 voters casting ballots in person since Thursday at three locations: City Hall, County Hall downtown and the Lemon City Library Branch. Another 3,312 voters have mailed in their ballots. That means 4,066 people have voted so […]

From the horse’s mouth: Martin Zilber’s judicial assistant speaks in digital video

From the horse’s mouth: Martin Zilber’s judicial assistant speaks in digital video

A new digital video making the rounds on social media gives a scathing first-person account of former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Martin Zilber‘s unethical behavior, as documented by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Committee, and narrated by his very victim, the judicial assistant he abused at work when she was pregnant. And Dixie Dent, who was […]

Martin Zilber outraises, outspends all candidates in Miami special election

Martin Zilber outraises, outspends all candidates in Miami special election

Former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Martin Zilber has outraised and outspent every other candidate in the special election to fill the vacancy in the Miami Commission District 2 seat. He collected $275,000 in contributions between his campaign account and his political action committee, Beautify Grove Miami. More than everyone else combined. According to […]