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Miami-Dade State Attorney launches anti voter fraud squad — again
Early voting starts Monday — and so does the policing.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced on Thursday that she would activate the Elections Response Team and Voter Protection Hotline to ensure that early voting sites remain free of any impropriety or illegal activity.
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago backs Renier Diaz de la Portilla — say what?
He has not endorsed colleague Jorge Fors in the county commission race
Local transit workers union endorses candidates in local, state, federal races
AFSCME and AFL-CIO also provide their slates for Aug. 23 primary
SAO drops battery charge on CJ Gimenez in ‘Slapgate’ scene with ADLP
Miami commissioner lashes out against ‘timid’ State Attorney
LG Jeanette Nuñez flexes, intimidates in Miami-Dade School Board race
Political Cortadito was the first to tell everyone that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his team — principally Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, because she is from here — recruited hardline Republicans to challenge three Miami-Dade School Board members that didn’t toe the GOP line against mandated COVID-19 facemasks.
Well, now they’ve doubled down with digital video ads trashing School Board Member Marta Perez, who said her supporters and longtime CPA have been intimidated into abandoning her.
Dozens of referendums on November ballot for voters in 9 Miami-Dade cities
Miami Beach voters might think their Aug. 23 ballot is fat, with six city referendums put to them. Just wait until November.
There will be eight ballot questions about the changes in the city charger and proposed developments on the November ballot. Eight! Miami Beach has the most questions on the ballot, followed by Key Biscayne, which has seven. Seven! South Miami is next with five charter amendments, including one that will increase the mayoral term from two to four years.
Trumpster or healthcare hero? Hopeful in Miami-Dade County D8 race is both
It’s not just Miami-Dade District 6 where former President Donald Trump has a friend running. One of the candidates challenging Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen-Higgins is also a Trumpster.
She doesn’t have his endorsement like Kevin Marino Cabrera has, but that’s probably only because Karen Baez Wallis, who resigned as director of Jackson South’s emergency services to run for office, does not think the 2020 presidential election was entirely stolen.
Ken Russell lied to voters when he said he wouldn’t run for higher office
By GRANT STERN, Special Guest Columnist
Miami Commissioner Ken Russell is running for Congress for the third time in just five years since he got elected to his present office just six and a half years ago.
Renier Diaz de la Portilla was ‘fired’ as a Miami-Dade assistant public defender
Former colleague says he used her in a hit piece without her knowledge
Special interest money abounds in Miami-Dade D2 campaign reports
There is a lot of money going around in the Miami-Dade District 2 racethe clusterbunch race with six candidates. And it’s not all where you’d expect it to be.
Sure, North Miami Mayor Philippe Bien-Aime is raking it in with real estate investors and developers. He’s got almost $800,000 between his campaign account and his political action committee. But social worker extraordinaire Marleine Bastien, founder and director of the nonprofit Family Action Network Movement, has the healthiest campaign account, without loaning herself a dime and without the bundling that is more evident in the other candidates’ records.
