The campaigning for state seats in this year’s election has begun in earnest. Looks like the first meet and greet of the season is in Coral Gables Tuesday. It could be the first in-person meet and greet for many since COVID-19. Four Democrat candidates for state office will be there for a Q&A at the […]
She’s worked for different electeds at all levels — federal, state, county and city. So now, veteran GOP operative Alina Garcia — most recently the “senior political advisor” for Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo — wants to be elected herself. To the Florida Senate. Garcia is waiting for the redistricting to shake out and will run […]
It wouldn’t be the 305 if there wasn’t at least one seat switch in the midterm elections, right? Janelle Perez, the cancer survivor, healthcare executive and lesbian activist who had announced last month she would run against Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar next year, has switched races and will challenge Florida Sen. Ileana Garcia instead. Was […]
This means Sen. Ileana Garcia won illegally Disgraced former Sen. Frank Artiles surrendered to authorities Thursday, walking into the Turner Guilford Knight jail facility near the airport and depriving us the joy of a perp walk. This comes a day after the State Attorney’s Office raided his Palmetto Bay home and left with computers and […]
State investigates his involvement in sham senate race Former State Sen. Frank Artiles had his Palmetto Bay home raided Wednesday morning in connection with the sham plantidate that helped Sen. Ileana Garcia win the District 37 race against Jose Javier Rodriguez by a scant 32 votes. Investigators with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office took boxes […]
People are still dumbfounded. How could Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, one of the few lawmakers who wanted to fix the broken Florida unemployment system, be ousted by a Latinas for Trump founder who has no political experience? The answer is that Republicans put an NPA spoiler plantidate who was a GOP voter days before he […]
If people want to see a stolen election, a real stolen election, they need to stop looking at the presidential race and check out Florida Senate District 37, where an unknown plantidate helped the GOP cheat. What’s more: It looks like it’s not the only race has a fake candidate propped up by unknown sources […]
It’s now officially the fault of you sloppy people. The machine recount in Florida Senate District 37 was completed Wednesday afternoon and Republican Ileana Garcia, a Latinas for Trump founder, still leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez — by a scant 28 votes. The gap only shrunk by 3 ballots from the 31-vote difference […]
But officials should review shady third plantidate, too The razor thin margin between Democrat Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez and his Republican challenger, Latinas for Trump Founder Ileana Garcia, grew to 31 votes between early Wednesday morning, when it was 21, and Friday, when state officials scheduled a recount that will begin Sunday. The gap hit […]
Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar go to Washington Two incumbent Democrat congresswomen were ousted in Tuesday’s election by Republicans and a blue state senator behind by 21 votes is headed for an instant recount in three shocker South Florida races that did not end like many political operatives and observers by had predicted. And […]