State Rep. Kionne McGhee will run for the Miami-Dade County Commission seat in District 9 this year that is vacated by the term-limited Dennis Moss. In fact, he’s the hand picked successor. McGhee hasn’t filed any paperwork and didn’t call Ladra back Sunday, but he was publicly endorsed by Moss Saturday at the Richmond Heights […]
Make no mistake. The lack of early voting on college campuses in Miami-Dade is voter suppression. In defiance of a federal judge who said the Florida ban on early voting on college campuses had a “pattern of discrimination,” and while other counties scramble to provide campus locations, Miami-Dade is not opening any early voting locations […]
The program allocates one hour for the speakers, but Ladra bets the Democrats of South Dade Club meeting Tuesday goes late. That’s because there are no fewer than eight blue party candidates — one congressional, one state senate wannabe and six House hopefuls — on the schedule. And who knows how many more will just show […]
With a little more than a week til qualifying deadline, two Republican women filed Thursday to challenge two Democrat incumbents in the House. Laura Rivero Levey, a midbeach Collins condo dweller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in Miami Beach in 2011, will run against Rep. David Richardson in District 113. Carmen Rosa Sotomayor, who lists […]