Political Pics of the Week: Election Day, Israel, Germany

Political Pics of the Week: Election Day, Israel, Germany

Our returned weekly feature is heavy today with political photos from the field on the Super Bowl for politicians and political beings alike: Election Day. Blessed with some beautiful weather, thousands of people voted on Tuesday, adding to absentee ballots and early voters that cast a total of 529,867 ballots — which is a whopping […]

Pics of the week returns with early voting, Halloween

Pics of the week returns with early voting, Halloween

Back by popular demand, Political Cortadito’s Pics of the Week returns today with two general themes — early voting and Halloween. You asked for it? You got it. Quite a few people have said that they missed the collection of social media posts by local politicians and government folks, and, well, Ladra loves to give […]

Tallahassee 2014: Rep. Jose Felix Diaz selfie tops Day 1

Tallahassee 2014: Rep. Jose Felix Diaz selfie tops Day 1

State Rep. Jose Felix “One More Pepe” Diaz was already quite the connoisseur and promoter of the selfie genre — posting photo pics of himself on instagram and twitter on a regular basis. He almost always lands some image on Political Cortadito’s Pics of the Weeks. But Diaz hit the big time on Tuesday when […]

Political Pics of the Week: Freedom and Food and Wine

Political Pics of the Week: Freedom and Food and Wine

The uber cool South Beach Food and Wine Festival in Miami Beach competed over the weekend with a couple of Freedom rallies — events that are always a big political draw in the 305. As some electeds joined both the Venezuelan and the Cuban communities to draw attention to the abuses in both dictatorships, others […]

Political Cortadito’s Politico Pics of the Week: Party!

Political Cortadito’s Politico Pics of the Week: Party!

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 […]

Politico Pics of the Week: Year ends with fun, family, faith

Politico Pics of the Week: Year ends with fun, family, faith

Another slow week for electeds as we celebrated New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and the prolonged vacation people take the days before and after. Very few selfies were posted. But Ladra always finds some. And, this time, the general theme was family. Miami Springs Mayor Zavier Garcia skipped the parties and rang in […]

Gung-ho Carlos Curbelo may scare Jose Felix Diaz away

Gung-ho Carlos Curbelo may scare Jose Felix Diaz away

One has to wonder why Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo is running so hard so soon. Curbelo, who is arguably the frontrunning GOP candidate in the Republican Party’s effort to take back the seat won last year by U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, has been on a fast track to the ballot — more than […]