Miami-Dade voters painted the town red Tuesday when ballots counted showed that Republican candidates had won all but one local partisan race. The only exception: Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who handily beat her opponent, Jesus Navarro, with 71% of the vote. But led by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio, who each won with comfortable […]
Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar is a copycat. Yeah, yeah. All Republican candidates pull the socialist card like it’s campaign gold, because it is in some voter demographics. But Salazar came out last week with a TV commercial in which she says, almost word for word, what Sen. Marco Rubio has been saying for weeks. “I’m […]
Remember debates? How great they were? Wouldn’t it be great to see some this election cycle? Sen. Annette Taddeo, who is running as the Democratic nominee for Floridas 27th Congressional District, has challenged the incumbent, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, to four debates — two in English and two en Español. This is the best […]
Plot twist! In her first video ad for the campaign in Congressional District 27, Democrat State Sen. Annette Taddeo has flipped the script and is calling U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar the socialist. Shut the front door! “This election will determine if we remain a beacon of freedom or we become a socialist dictatorship,” Taddeo […]
Voters in congressional District 27 got a call this week from “a national public opinion firm” that was obviously seeking to turn people against Sen. Annette Taddeo, who is running in the primary for the chance to challenge Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar. Ken Russell who? The Miami Commissioner, also running in the Democratic primary, was […]
The first mailer of the Election 2022 season to hit Ladra’s mailbox arrived Saturday. It’s a piece for Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar and, predictably, it touts her as “a freedom fighter” who is keeping socialism out of the United States. And it comes within days of Sen. Annette Taddeo‘s announcement that she switched races from […]
It wouldn’t be the 305 if there wasn’t at least one seat switch in the midterm elections, right? Janelle Perez, the cancer survivor, healthcare executive and lesbian activist who had announced last month she would run against Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar next year, has switched races and will challenge Florida Sen. Ileana Garcia instead. Was […]
Oh, the irony! Here was Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy standing in the Bay of Pigs museum in Hialeah Gardens, blasting the Cuban government — because, you know, he’s not going to get left out of the trend — saying that people are being picked up off the street as they cry for freedom, when the […]
By GUEST COLUMNIST George Volsky Statistics daunt. Early this month, more than 200 million cases of Covid-19 and 614,000 deaths, were recorded in 182 countries. These totals, believed to be considerably undercounted, unequivocally confirm that the pandemic that appeared to have stabilized at the beginning of the year, has surged anew. This is due mainly […]
How do you beat the most cubanasa member of U.S. Congress in a somewhat Cuban-American district when it seems libertad en cuba is going to be an issue the GOP seizes on? You run a Democrat cubanita against her — a former Republican who used to work for the beloved Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who would […]