Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera got the green light from his wife. C-Lo told a group of close to 750 Republicans at the Miami-Dade Lincoln Day Dinner that he was “considering” a run for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by presidential hopeful Marco Rubio in 2016. He won’t make an official announcement until July 15 […]
“Marco! Marco! Marco! Marco!” Sen. Marco Rubio was in da house Saturday night. His house. The former West Miami Commissioner, state rep and House Speaker was definitely among friends and fans when he spoke at the Miami-Dade Lincoln Day Dinner as a real contender for president. There were about 20 protesters outside, rallied by the […]
Now that they are competing for the same job, Sen. Marco Rubio will not let Sen. Ted Cruz take his place this year at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner, the biggest fundraiser thrown every year by the Miami-Dade Republican Party. But it’s not an endorsement or a slight on former Gov. Jeb Bush. Rubio was […]
There’s been a lot of attention this election cycle to the mega spending done in the governor’s race and by the candidates in the congressional race for District 26. Millions upon millions in a record-setting year. But that Rockefeller attitude has pretty much trickled down to the Florida House races in South Florida. As of […]
What is the big deal about Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez changing parties from Republican to Independent or NPA? Ladra isn’t so surprised. And it’s not because he’s never really been that right a Republican. And it’s not because he doesn’t owe anything to the local GOP — which supported former Hialeah Mayor Julio […]
GOP activist Mimi Planas, a community council member in District 10, is getting married in October. The president of the Miami Log Cabin Republicans will have to travel to New Mexico, however, to wed her fiance, Isis Martinez. That’s because the concept of marriage equality still hasn’t taken hold in Florida, where, in fact, the current […]
What do you call it when you put all the local Republican club members, political candidates, party loyalsists, activists, campaign workers and volunteers together in one room with a DJ, a slideshow, a stage, a guy dressed as Abraham Lincoln serving beverages and lots of balloons in red, white and blue? The GOP organizers called […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yes, as expected, the keynote speaker at the Miami-Dade Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in a couple of weeks is a Cuban-American senator. But it’s not that Cuban-American Senator. The big money draw for the June 20 event will be Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas, known as “the other Cuban senator” in these parts. The […]