Debbie does not do Havana. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, is not down with President Barack Obama‘s warming up to the Cuban government and told The Daily Signal last week — again, because she’s said it before — that the U.S. should perhaps wait to normalize relations as some kind […]
The only shocker of the night so far in this predictable election — okay, Gov. Rick Scott won but we were told that one could go either way — is that State Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez beating back Republican lobbyist Daniel Diaz-Leyva despite the fact that Danny Boy spent probably twice as much dough. Ladra […]
Well, it was predicted that in a midterm gubernatorial year, Republican voters would outnumber Democrats. And it is looking true statewide in the Florida governor’s race and in two key state races in Miami-Dade when it comes to the early voting and absentee ballots cast so far. Of course, we don’t know how all these […]
Spotted Thursday morning strategizing over breakfast at Green Gables Cafe: State Rep. Jose Felix “One More Pepe” Diaz and fellow Republican and wannabe representative Daniel Diaz Leyva, the lobbyist running against Democrat State Rep. Jose Javier “J-Rod” Rodriguez in House district 112. It’s only fair. Danny Boy here worked on Rep. “Pepe” Diaz’s 2010 and […]
Now that absentee ballots are dropping next week, we’re going to start seeing more activity in one of the dogfights Ladra had in this year’s midterm elections: The battle between attorney and young GOP climber, Daniel Diaz Leyva, and Democrat freshman State Rep. Jose Javier “J-Rod” Rodriguez. So far, it had really been a yawner […]
Now that this year’s lackluster little municipal elections have come and gone — well, all except the Miami Beach runoffs Nov. 19 — campaign professionals, political wannabes and junkie watchdogs like Ladra can start focusing on the 2014 races that promise much more drama at both the county and state levels. Several stabs for state […]
Ladra has to admit: This is not the Diaz I had hoped to see in the 2014 race against State Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez (D-Little Havana). Republican wonderkid and Coral Gables attorney Daniel Diaz Leyva has filed paperwork to run against Rodriguez next year. Naturally, Ladra had hoped for a non-presidential year rematch between J-Rod […]
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has not given up on getting public financing for some of his planned $350-million in upgrades to his privately-owned SunLife Stadium, even though efforts to do just that this year were thwarted in the Florida legislature. “Have I given up? The answer is no,” he said earlier this month. “The […]
Looks like Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is making good on his threat to punish the Tallahassee bunch who killed his $350-million dream. Well, not the Democrat one. The second wave of mail attacks on state legislators that fought the plan to finance the roof and improvements to Ross’s privately owned Dolphins stadium with public tax […]
Naturally, we all know the bigget loser in today’s defeat of the Miami Dolphins stadium modernization bill in the Florida House is Stephen Ross, who had hinged getting the roof and some fancy upgrades for his very own SunLife Stadium on using public dollars and creating a new revenue stream for himself. Indeed, he had invested […]