Looks like former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — suspended by the governor after his September arrest on public corruption charges like money laundering and bribery — knows he’s not going to win re-election in District 1. That’s why he’s wasting money on a campaign against the Broward State Attorney who is prosecuting his case.
“This is the shameless liar who attacks and defames our Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla,” read the mail pieces that arrived this week in Broward voters’ mailboxes with a photo of “the leftist” Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor Jr., who, by the way, was given this case by the Republican governor after Miam-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle recused herself.
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Video ties Regalado to recently tainted politicos
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Just when you thought the D1 race in the city of Miami couldn’t get seedier. Or more dangerous.
Former Miami Police Officer turned private eye Frank Pichel, now a candidate in the city’s district 1 race, was arrested Sunday afternoon after he pulled a gun on another campaign team in Allapattah.
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It was bound to happen. Voters in Miami’s District 1 got a mailer last week reminding them that suspended Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla had been arrested on public corruption charges, including money laundering and bribery, in a case mostly about campaign contributions.
It writes itself.
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Two of the three candidates in the special election for Florida House seat 118 to replace State Rep. Juan Alfonso Fernandez-Barquin — appointed Miami-Dade Clerk and Comptroller by Gov. Ron DeSantis in June — will meet and greet Kendall voters Thursday night. But the Republican is sitting it out.
Mike Redondo, the frontrunner and best funded candidate — $226,000 as of the last campaign finance report, with more than $62,000 from the Florida House Republican Campaign Committee — probably thinks he has nothing to lose by skipping the meet and greet sponsored by the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Association.
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