While three Republican hopefuls — okay, five, but really only three — are vying for the chance to run against U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia in November, the longtime Congressman that Garcia toppled in 2012 to get there is not necessarily completely out of the picture. Ladra don’t call him King David “Nine Lives” Rivera for […]
When President Barack Obama speaks tonight at the State of the Union Address, he will bring up immigration reform. Again. And the cameras will likely pan to the parade of DREAMers (read: human stage props) invited to the White House as symbols of the struggle. Again. Among them will be Mayra Rubio Limon, a young […]
Ten months out, the heated contest for the Congressional seat in District 26 has already gone into attack mode. And Cutler Bay Mayor Ed MacDougall — seen as the least likely of three hopefuls in the Republican primary, mostly because he doesn’t have a z or a vowel at the end of his last name […]
Another endorsement has come out in this year’s headliner of a race for the 26th Congressional District: Auto mogul and political meddler extraordinaire Norman Braman has already picked his horse among the three Republican hopefuls lining up to unseat Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia. Braman, left, is backing Cutler Bay Mayor Ed “Mac” MacDougall, right, […]
It’s starting early this year: The parade of political endorsements that precede every election. Sometimes, they seem somewhat counterproductive to me. I mean, who would want the Latin Builders Association’s nod. Doesn’t that just reek of special interest? Or is it just Ladra? Of course, it is good to know who is supported by the […]
Ladra knew the Congressional race in West Miami-Dade, the GOP battle to take the seat from newly-minted U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, would be one of the closest watched races in the country because it is one of the seats Republicans hope to take back in 2014. I love it when I’m right. The National Journal […]
He holds the biggest campaign purse among the field of candidates and may have the bigger political profile on a national level. But Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo, who is running for Congressional District 26 in what most expect to be one of the hardest fought races in the country, wants you to get […]
It’s not the likeliest of starting points for one of the most closely watched races in the nation. But in shiny, new senior center, in a bright room full of viejitos and political nobodies, former Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Joe Martinez officially launched his 2014 congressional campaign Thursday. It’s “officially” because Martinez has been talking about […]
It’s not really news that former Miami-Dade County Chairman Joe Martinez is going to run for Congress, even though he is only formally announcing it this morning at a West Dade senior center named after his mother. The news, for many, is that he is going to announce he is the frontrunner in a Republican […]
The woman that is soon to be named the new chief of staff for Congressman Joe Garcia is SEIU Florida State Council Director Caitlin Fishman, who is also daughter of one of New York City’s biggest union bosses. Caitlin Fishman will begin her new job the first week of December. But her name has been […]