Alian Collazo has major support from a state senator In the Florida House 115 Republican primary to replace State Rep. Alina Garcia, who is running for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, the Tampa transplant put in the race by a state senator is leading in fundraising over Miami-Dade Fire Capt. Omar Blanco, according to the campaign […]
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Captain Omar Blanco, a 20-veteran of the department and former union president, has officially announced that he is running for Florida House of Representatives in District 115, where Rep. Alina Garcia is vacating to run for Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor. It was known that Blanco, who ran for Congress four years ago, would […]
A pair of caravans in Miami-Dade on the last day of early voting show just how partisan and polemic our county mayoral race has become. In Miami Beach, a blue stronghold with a Democrat mayor, the Miami Beach Democratic Club had a convoy Sunday to kick off the Democratic National Convention, which started Monday, and […]
While Ladra has already made some endorsements and predictions for this month’s election, it might be a good idea to repeat them and add some others today, now that early voting has started. A lot of attention has gone to the Miami-Dade mayoral race, but there are also seven commission races and five of those […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez lost his first battle in the congressional contest last week when a Tallahassee judge denied his motion to dismiss a lawsuit that aims to take him off the ballot because he paid his qualification fee with a bad check. Seems the lawsuit to disqualify Gimenez, filed by firefighter Omar Blanco in April, […]
Updated: The Republican congressional primary in congressional district 26 is on and first out the gate with an attack piece is Omar Blanco, the firefighter competing with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez for the chance to go up against Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in November. “Donald Trump needs to step down,” Gimenez told Jim Defede on […]
Miami-Dade firefighter and congressional candidate Omar Blanco filed a lawsuit against his opponent this week and the Florida Supervisor of Elections, arguing that Mayor Carlos Gimenez failed to qualify because of a typo on his bank account check. He wants to get Gimenez off the August ballot. It takes some gumption: Gimenez is Blanco’s boss. The campaign […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez reportedly qualified for the Republican Congressional primary in District 26 because he filed his paperwork on time, before the deadline at noon on Friday. But could a typo kick him off the ballot? Florida statute 99.061 requires a federal candidate to submit “a properly executed check drawn upon the candidate’s campaign account” for […]
While Miami Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez was busy scoring free tickets to Super Bowl LIV from a billionaire that gets millions in county subsidies, one of his opponents in the Republican congressional primary celebrated the beginning of the end of impeachment with a close, personal friend of the POTUS. “It was great talking to President Donald J. […]
No sooner had the ink dried on the tweet by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announcing his run for mayor, did President Donald Trump jump to endorse him. The POTUS himself. It must have caught his attention when Gimenez announced the entry into the Republican primary in a welcome message to Trump, here for the Republican […]