New Mayor Eileen Higgins suggests taking a year away Like a bad ordinance in a file drawer, waiting for a new haircut and a better excuse, Miami Commissioners are once again pulling out the proposal to change the election calendar — the same idea that was laughed out of court when commissioners tried to give themselves […]
Robert “Rob” Piper, who last we heard had chaired a political action committee that tried to recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo in 2020, filed paperwork this week to replace him on the dais in District 3 this November. “There didn’t seem to be a great deal of choices,” Piper, who is also president of the […]
Joe Carollo and his PAC are back to same old tricks It is so predictable that the special election for Miami Commission seat in District 4 would have someone calling one of the candidates a communist. But it still hits strange that it would happen to Jose Regalado, the youngest son of former Miami Mayor […]
In the two weeks after the city of Miami scheduled a special election to fill the commission vacancy caused by the death of Manolo Reyes, the two candidates have raised almost $100,000 combined. And local favorite Jose Regalado — of those Regalados — who quit his job as assistant building director to run for office at […]
A new political action committee led by Miami activists announced Tuesday the launch of a citizen-led petition to amend the city’s charter, “aiming to create a more representative, accountable and transparent local government.” The petition proposes three changes that would go to voters: holding city elections in even years, expanding the size of the city […]
Several mailers and text messages have gone out in Miami this week to try to tie District 2 commission candidate Damian Pardo to Commissioner Joe Carollo, who is that toxic. The weak connections are the financial consultant and human rights activist, who is in the runoff against incumbent Commissioner Sabina Covo, was Carollo’s appointment to […]
And wouldn’t that make her just like ADLP? In the race for endorsements in the Miami District 2 race, there’s a rumor that attorney Eddy Leal, the former counsel to the city’s mayor, has endorsed incumbent Commissioner Sabina Covo in the runoff against banker and activist Damian Pardo. Leal came in third on Nov. 7, […]
It may seem unbelievable, but 1,571 people in Miami voted for a man who stands accused of public corruption charges like bribery and money laundering and unlawful compensation from abusing the very position they want to put him back into. What are these people smoking? Former commissioner (because he was suspended by the governor after […]
There are live elections today in four of Miami-Dade’s biggest cities: Miami, Hialeah, Miami Beach and Homestead. Some offer a little more drama than others. In Miami, there are two seats up for grabs. Commissioner Manolo Reyes is also on the ballot but he is pretty much in like Flint. No muss, no fuss. But […]
There are eight candidates vying for the Miami Commission seat in District 2 — which covers the shoreline from Coconut Grove up through Brickell and downtown to Morningside — in what may be a testament to the vulnerability of short term incumbent Sabina Covo, who was elected in a special election last February to replace […]