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Frank Artiles arrested for sham state senate election — but was he alone?
This means Sen. Ileana Garcia won illegally
Developing story: Disgraced former Sen. Frank Artiles surrendered to authorities Thursday, walking into the Turner Guilford Knight jail facility near the airport and depriving us the joy of a perp walk.
Controversial 87th Avenue bridge comes back to county at TPO meeting
Critics question process and lack of public notice
Raid on Frank Artiles home could be justice, could be political preemption
State investigates his involvement in sham senate race
Bayfront Park board member resigns on Joe Carollo’s $1 mil no-bid giveaway
A downtown activist and member of the Bayfront Park Trust Management advisory board has resigned because of a no-bid giveaway contract for $1 million worth of public art — dog and cat sculptures, like the Little Havana roosters in — for Maurice Ferre Park, which is also managed by the trust.
But it’s really about Commissioner Joe Carollo, who is chairman of the BPTM, and his handling of that group — and it’s money. This proposal originally was sent to Carollo and his wife’s personal email.
Here’s who’s on the absentee ballots mailed to Coral Gables voters this week
Monday is the last day to register if you want to vote in the Coral Gables election April 13.
There were 35,962 registered voters in the City Beautiful at the beginning of March, according to the Miami-Dade Elections Department. That’s a little more than the 33,154 who were registered at the time of the last election in 2019, when a little more than 8,500 voters cast ballots, a 26% turnout.
Miami political pals of Javier Baños attack Alex Bucelo in Coral Gables race
The mailer that landed in mailboxes Saturday calling Coral Gables Commission Group 3 candidate Alex Bucelo a puppet was paid for by former Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff.
What does Miami have to do with the Gables?
Candidates in Coral Gables collectively raised $1 mil for April race — so far
All together, the 13 candidates in the April 13 Coral Gables election have raised more than $1 million — a milestone reached last month, according to the latest campaign finance reports.
Leading the pack are the mayoral candidates, who between them, raised $121,240 just in February. Together, they account for half of the million dollar bounty.
Coral Gables poll on commission race hints of hits to come in Group 2 contest
Two of the frontrunners in the Coral Gables Group 2 commission race were the subjects of a mobile poll last week that tested negative messages against one of them.
Voters were asked if they would be more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate if they had been “charged by Boston, Massachusetts police for disorderly conduct for refusing to stop smoking in a hotel room” or if they were “married to prominent lobbyist and son of former Miami Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez.”
Pat Keon hits Vince Lago with dark money lies in Coral Gables mayoral race
Commissioner Pat Keon has drawn first blood in the mayoral race with a dark money attack mailer against Vice Mayor Vince Lago that calls him “a rubber stamp for big developers.”
It’s almost laughable, because Keon is the development darling in the race. Lago has consistently been the lone no vote on several controversial developments — he voted against the Agave project and Gables Station — as well as the sole voice of reason on the Miracle Mile rezoning.
Coral Gables candidates forum has no surprises, no sass — no standouts
Please forgive me if you were at the Coral Gables Chamber’s candidate forum on Thursday and you heard Ladra snoring in the back row. Thank you, Chamber president Mark Trowbridge for the invite, but it was not worth risking COVID to be there live. I should have watched it on Zoom.
Even Mayra Joli, the nodding lady from the Trump town hall, was kind of toned down. ¿Que le pasó?
