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.

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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?

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Among the more controversial — and frightening — bills that the Florida Legislature is considering this year are some “civil immunity” measures that would give companies, hospitals and nursing homes a legal loophole from lawsuits that stem from employees or customers getting COVID-19.

No, really.

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But did ‘bad actors’ get some of the $60 million in federal funding?

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A Florida Senate bill “moving at the speed of light” would purge the permanent vote-by-mail request lists in every county by July — and could disenfranchise close to 100,000 Miami-Dade voters with elections this year in Virginia Gardens, Homestead, Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah.

Not so fast, said the Miami-Dade Commission, which on Tuesday passed a resolution, sponsored by Commissioner Raquel Regalado, opposing SB90 and urging the legislature to — at the very least — change the effective date to Jan. 1, 2022.

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