The new chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party — replacing Annette addeo, who was tapped to be the running mate for former Gov. Charlie Crist in his bid to take back the mansion — is State Sen. Dwight Bullard (D-Cutler Bay). Read related story: Charlie Crist names Annette Taddeo as running mate Bullard is considered […]
State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez‘s mailer arrived in Ladra’s mailbox Wednesday, urging me to give him my vote for Miami-Dade Property Appraiser. Also urging me from their smiling photographed faces were Sen. Anitere Flores, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah “Potty Mouth” Wolfson, State Sens. Oscar Braynon and Dwight Bullard and State Rep. Daphne Campbell. But when my […]
There were no fisticuffs, but it was lively and lines were definitely drawn in the debate last week between the five candidates for Miami-Dade Property Appraiser — a juicy $196,000-a-year job overseeing the assessment of property values, which is the main source of revenue (read: cash cow) for the county budget as well as all […]
State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez just threw his hat into the ring for the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser’s race — el otro dia, como quien diga — and already he’s whooshed past the two front running candidates that were, up to now, pretty neck and neck as far as monies collected. That’s because Gonzalez is bringing his […]
If we needed any proof that Bryan Avila, vice chair of the Miami-Dade Republican Party, was the hand-picked successor to State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez, who is termed out of that office and will seek another office countywide, just drop by the joint fundraiser that Gonzalez will have with Avila and State Rep. Manny Diaz, Jr., […]
State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez (R-Hialeah) is formally in the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser’s race. Gonzalez, who is termed out at the end of this year, filed Tuesday, making true Ladra’s prediction from last month. Wednesday, he withdrew from the Hialeah Council race that he had originally intended to run in. The representative did not return repeated […]
State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez (R-Hialeah), who is termed out this year and was shopping for a new seat to fill, is said to be switching gears — yet again — and jumping into the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser’s race. Any day now. And he will instantly become the guy to beat in what essentially becomes a […]
Fight, fight! But Ladra bets the ugly, public brawl between a group of Republican legislators and the beloved president of Miami Dade College isn’t really over yet and that the former doesn’t know what they have gotten themselves into. Jaws dropped all over the county last week when the typically staid and methodically elegant MDC […]
The residency rule passed by both the Florida House and Senate Tuesday has been touted as both a way to tighten loopholes that allow legislators to live outside their district and a measure that was not politically motivated. It is neither. State lawmakers may have been all high fives and back slaps after they passed the […]
From galas to stadiums to breakfasts to parks, Miami-Dade’s electeds were all over the place last week. This past couple of weekends seemed particularly busy. The always gorgeous Aventura Councilwoman Luz Weinberg glammed it up at the Voice for Children gala Saturday nigh at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and smiled for the camera with Judge […]