Absentee voters in the special, shotgun wedding election for Miami-Dade Commission District 5 started getting ballots last week — and returning them, with 2,535 mailed back as of Monday. So, naturally, they’re also already getting campaign mailers in their mailbox. Every day. Sometimes three and four a day. Naturally, there are attack missiles against the […]
Nothing like a little fire under your, er, feet to get those contributions coming in, eh? Candidates in the special election for Miami-Dade Commission District 5 have less time than probably anyone in the history of special commission races to raise funds. The election is May 22. So, basically, they’ve had little more than a […]
Talk about being stuck between an evil rock and an evil hard place. Voters in Miami-Dade commission district five have a short time to come to terms with the limited and poor choices they have to replace former Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, who abruptly resigned last month to run for Congress — with the intent to open […]
![Francis Suarez, Miami’s next mayor, won’t make [public] commission picks](https://www.politicalcortadito.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/francisbanner-701x286.jpg "Francis Suarez, Miami’s next mayor, won’t make [public] commission picks")
Now that the mayoral election next month is all but a technicality, the real question is who Commissioner Francis Suarez, our next city of Miami mayor, wants to have serve on the dais with him. He’s been non-commmital because he wanted to focus on his own race. But now that he’s got no opposition, not […]
Both Zoraida Barreiro and Joe Carollo filed their first campaign finance report in their race for the same city of Miami commission seat and they must be a tad disappointed. Sure, $14,000 (Barreiro) and $10,000 (Carollo) is respectable — for any novice, first-time no-name. But Barreiro is wife of Miami-Dade County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, who must […]