Third candidate in Miami-Dade District 7 race could be another ghost plantidate

Posted by on Jul 29, 2024 in Fresh Colada, News | 0 comments

Richard Praschnik has a homestead in Lee County

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Miami Foundation forums give voters brief view of Miami-Dade candidates

Posted by on Jul 28, 2024 in Elections 2024, Fresh Colada, JC Planas, News, Raquel Regalado, Roberto Gonzalez | 0 comments

Let’s thank the Miami Foundation for having and recording a series of forums this month with candidates for several races on the August 20 ballot — and posting them on their website for all voters to see. We are lucky that they think it’s important. It is part of the Vote Miami awareness initiative to increase voter participation, after a 47% turnout in the 2022 election.

They stressed that the forums, which are about an hour long each, were not debates — which is too bad. Ladra misses real debates. But we have to applaud the use of the mute button when the candidates’ time was up. Wish we could do that to sitting electeds.

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El ex Senador Frank Artiles apoya a otro candidato fantasma — Alian Collazo

Posted by on Jul 26, 2024 in Alian Collazo, Elections 2024, Frank Artiles, Fresh Colada, News, Omar Blanco | 0 comments

Deberíamos haberlo sospechado.

Parece que Frank Artiles está detrás del trasplante de Tampa que han plantado en la contienda para el Distrito 115 de la Cámara de Representantes de la Florida contra el veterano capitán de bomberos y ex presidente del sindicato de los bomberos de Miami-Dade, Omar Blanco.

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Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to open 7th campaign office

Posted by on Jul 26, 2024 in Daniella Levine Cava, Fresh Colada, Manny Cid, Miami-Dade Mayor's race, News | 0 comments

Because six campaign offices are apparently not enough, the campaign to re-elect Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava will open a seventh regional office this weekend. This one is in North Miami.

The campaign has previously opened a headquarters in Little Havana with five other offices in Miami Beach, Liberty City, South Miami, Miami Gardens and Homestead.

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Rapid Transit Zone standoff between Miami, Miami-Dade goes to mediation

Posted by on Jul 26, 2024 in Francis Suarez, Fresh Colada, News, Oliver Gilbert, RTZ, transit | 0 comments

This is Round 2 on who controls development

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JC Planas scores 4 mayoral nods in race for Miami-Dade elections supervisor

Posted by on Jul 25, 2024 in Elections 2024, Fresh Colada, Javier Fernandez, JC Planas, News | 0 comments

As the primary for the constitutional offices nears its closing, former State Rep. JC Planas, an attorney running for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, has gotten the endorsement of four mayors from Miami-Dade municipalities.

The Planas campaign announced this week endorsements from South Miami Mayor Javier Fernandez, Bay Harbor Mayor Joshua Fuller, North Bay Village Mayor Brent Latham and Aventura Mayor Howard Weinberg, who each cited Planas’ experience as an elections attorney and his commitment to ensure election integrity as the main reasons for their support.

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