State Rep. Cindy Polo joins Elizabeth Warren campaign crew for cafecito chat

State Rep. Cindy Polo joins Elizabeth Warren campaign crew for cafecito chat

The “Cafecito con Elizabeth Warren” Saturday is really with Elizabeth Warren’s people, which now includes State Rep. Cindy Polo, who is facing a challenge of her own after her freshman term. Polo, who joined a group of female lawmakers that endorsed Warren last month, will be the keynote speaker at the Wynwood event at Gramp’s. […]

Recall against Miami’s Joe Carollo is launched this week in Little Havana

Recall against Miami’s Joe Carollo is launched this week in Little Havana

UPDATED: It’s really happening. The recall effort against Miami Commissioner Loco Joe Carollo is gaining steam with the first canvassing for signatures on Saturday. And organizers are forming a formal political action committee this week. Volunteers have been told to meet by 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Domino Park, from which they will fan out into District […]

Juan Cuba is back with Dade Dems in time for Hillary

Juan Cuba is back with Dade Dems in time for Hillary

Eight months ’til the general election and local Democrats decided that they need Juan Cuba is back at the helm of the Miami-Dade party. Cuba, who had served as executive director for two years before leaving in 2014 to be a political strategist for the Service Employees International Union, was back on the job this […]

Juan Cuba leaves Dade Dems for union job, doing the same

Juan Cuba leaves Dade Dems for union job, doing the same

A new year, and a new job for Miami-Dade Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Cuba, who quit the job he’s had for two years to join big labor as a political strategist for the Service Employees International Union. Cuba, who takes too much credit for the victories of Homestead Mayor Jeff Porter and Miami-Dade Commissioner […]

GOP welcomes Dems to House races with glee, phone banks

GOP welcomes Dems to House races with glee, phone banks

Local Republicans said they were all too happy to see Democratic nobodies challenge six state House incumbent Republicans and one apparent successor in the Miami-Dade Democratic Party’s “No More Free Rides” campaign — a move that many have characterized as a publicity stunt that may have backfired. “They gave me a gift,” said Miami-Dade Republican […]

Oooops! Dems add Jeanette Nuñez to incumbent challenge

Oooops! Dems add Jeanette Nuñez to incumbent challenge

The Miami-Dade Democratic Party said Monday that they had found challengers for every single Republican incumbent in the Florida House — but they had actually missed one. Had they simply forgotten about State Rep. Jeanette Nuñez of District 119 in Doral? Or had they given her a pass because she backed the Miami Dade College […]