Miami-Dade has a few things that are common in many dark and dirty political campaigns: Dark money (read: untraceable) is one of them. Attack mailers are another. And the quita-y-pon committees that remove an opponent’s yard signs and replace them with their own. Well, it looks like Alex Rizo — the Republican running to replace […]
By Brandon Rosado for Political Cortadito Florida House District 120 — which encompasses the southern part of Miami-Dade, all of the Florida Keys and the Everglades — is a major flashpoint of the global climate emergency. The southernmost district is plagued by poor water quality and threatened existentially by sea-level rise while emitting carbon dioxide […]
Among the important state races this year, at least for Democrats, is the contest for House District 110, vacated by termed-out Republican State Rep. and Speaker Jose Oliva, who will come back as a lobbyist in a couple years. Teacher and community organizer Annette Collazo, a Democrat, got a big boost in her campaign this […]
The South Florida Council of Firefighters has endorsed State Rep. Cindy Polo as she seeks her second term in House District 103 against a challenge by none other than — drumroll please — a firefighter. Miami Lakes Councilman Nelson Rodriguez is a firefighter paramedic in Coral Gables — and a Republican running against the Democrat […]
While there isn’t one yet, we can expect a challenge to State Rep. Vance Aloupis in 2020. Someone is polling voters in House District 115, a very flippable seat that state and local Democrats want badly. Voters in the district — which stretches from Doral through Westchester, Kendall, Pinecrest and into Palmetto Bay — were polled via […]
Since State Rep. Ana Maria Rodriguez (R-Doral) switched earlier this month from the House District she won last year to the state senate seat currently occupied by termed-out Anitere Flores (R-Kendall), HD105 has become another coveted open state contest in 2020. So, it already has attracted not one, not two, but three failed state rep wannabes […]
It’s been rumored for months but Miami Lakes Councilman Nelson Rodriguez will announce Thursday that he will challenge freshman State Rep. Cindy Polo in House District 103 next year. Polo won the seat vacated by Manny Diaz Jr., who ran for Senate, in 2018 against another former Miami Lakes councilman, Frank Mingo. Rodriguez, a Coral […]
State Rep. Jose Oliva, the Speaker of the House holding the firefighter cancer bill back all session, reversed his earlier decision and said Tuesday that he would bring HB857 — or something very similar to it — to the floor in the near future. The legislation, four years in the making, aims to address healthcare […]
It is a fact that firefighters get cancer and die of cancer at a higher rate than the rest of us — 14% higher. Study after study shows that job-related cancer is the number one killer of firefighters. It is a fact that no fewer than 45 states have addressed this issue by passing laws […]
A subcommittee in the Florida House will hear the first bill Tuesday to legislate the process for felons to get their voting rights restored, which voters approved last year with the passage of Amendment 4 by 64% of Florida voters. But in the typical bait and switch style of our Republican-controlled legislature, it seems the […]