What if there was a virtual campaign forum for an important city election and none of the frontrunners were there? Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Could one of the also-rans take the opportunity to become a star?
We may just be about to find out.
Mayra Joli, who came in fifth two months ago in the Coral Gables City Commission election, wants to throw her hat in the ring again.
Only it’s a different ring.
Campaign contributions marked by many special interest bundles
The long-rumored challenge to Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is true: Former Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro — whose wife lost to Crazy Joe in 2017 — has filed documents to run for the seat in District 3.
Barreiro, who resigned in 2017 to run for Congress (losing to Maria Elvira Salazar un 2018’s primary) was at City Hall turning his documents in Friday afternoon, but people have been whispering about his candidacy for months. After all, he did support the Carollo recall last year against the man who attacked his wife, Zoraida Barreiro, with very negative mail pieces.
Talk about making a splash.
Fresh from Houston, in his first 100 days as Miami’s new Police Chief, Art Acevedo has moved to fire Assistant Chief Ronald Papier — who was acting chief just a few weeks ago — and his wife, Maj. Nerly Papier, after he helped cover up an accident that she had in a police vehicle.
After 21 years, the advocate at the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust — the man who basically serves as the prosecutor — is leaving us. Michael Murawski has a new job: He will keep politicians and government folks in line at the new Naples Ethics Commission.
Murawski will be their first executive director starting June. 1. Congratulations, but Ladra gives him six months before he’s begging to come back just because of the sheer boredom.
