Where will the rest of the pack land? The first endorsement from one of the losing Miami mayoral hopefuls is vintage Miami. Former Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier L. Suarez, the original Mayor Suarez, the father of our camera-obsessed current mayor Francis Suarez, has thrown his weight (and his word count) behind Emilio González in the upcoming Dec. […]
At least eight of the 13 people who want to be the next Miami mayor candidates will be on stage Saturday at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex on Saturday to talk about “the issues that matter most” to voters. Or at least that’s the promise from the long list of progressive groups hosting it: Florida […]
Miami’s political telenovela just cast another familiar face: Former Miami Mayor and former District 7 Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez wants his old job back — and maybe a rematch with Commissioner Joe Carollo. Just hours after a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge on Monday declared the Miami City Commission’s election year change by ordinance unconstitutional, effectively […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo is two for two in his bid to become mayor: Commissioner Xavier Suarez endorsed on Monday the Hialeah politico he came into the commission with in 2011. Already candidate Monique Nicole Barley endorsed Bovo last week over Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, in a surprise move, so, really, only former Mayor Alex […]
Nobody would say who is going to endorse Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava in her run for mayor on Tuesday, but it seems the big mystery is meant to look like it’s one of the other mayoral hopefuls who got cut out of the race last week. It’s not. Both former mayor Alex Penelas, the […]
After much hand-wringing and nasty, negative campaigns between the three front runners, the Miami-Dade mayoral runoff in November will see what could very well be the most negative and partisan mayoral race in our lifetime when two sitting commissioners and polar party opposites go head to head. Esteban Bovo and Daniella Levine Cava were practically […]
In what was likely the last televised debate of the four leading Miami-Dade mayoral candidates, the time and drama was dominated, yet again, by former mayor Alex Penelas and current Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo, who traded jabs and interrupted each other like they were alone on the stage. Ladra could watch Tuesday’s AmericaTeve debate again […]
In the final stretch of the Miami-Dade mayoral election, two separate internal polls put county Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava comfortably in the runoff. Former Mayor Alex Penelas — who came in third in an independent business group poll Ladra posted about on Political Cortadito Aug. 6 — released a new poll of 350 likely primary […]
Not everyone is doing terribly in the economic crisis fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The four viable Miami-Dade mayoral candidates have raised more than $12 million between them, and spent at least $9.5 million through July 31, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed Friday with the Miami-Dade Elections Department. The biggest bank belongs […]
A new third party poll by some independent business interest group has Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava leading in the mayoral race by a very small margin. And number two on her heels, according to sources who got the exact same poll results, is Commissioner Esteban Bovo. So we may actually be looking at a […]