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 […]
Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar go to Washington Two incumbent Democrat congresswomen were ousted in Tuesday’s election by Republicans and a blue state senator behind by 21 votes is headed for an instant recount in three shocker South Florida races that did not end like many political operatives and observers by had predicted. And […]
Television journalist Maria Elvira Salazar announced Thursday on twitter and YouTube that she wants a rematch with Congresswoman Donna Shalala, who beat her last November to replace longtime U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who retired more than three decades in office. Salazar lost to Shalala by 6 points, 52 to 46%, and apparently thinks she can […]
Ya que se las cago with the Cuban-American vote, former University of Miami President and congressional candidate Donna Shalala may be going after the Colombian vote in District 27 with a new gimmick Saturday aimed at endearing her with the Hispanic community: A chiva tour. Ladra said long ago that Kristen Rosen Gonzalez was the only […]
President Barack Obama release his “second wave” of endorsements early Monday afternoon. “Today, I’m proud to endorse even more Democratic candidates who aren’t just running against something, but for something—to expand opportunity for all of us and to restore dignity, honor, and compassion to public service,” tweeted the president, who gave his first wave of […]