Category: Mayor
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Christian Ulvert is Miami-Dade’s leading PAC man, gobbling up campaign cash for local politicos
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Democratic strategist Christian Ulvert has turned a sprawling network of political action committees into one of the most powerful fundraising engines in Miami-Dade politics, collecting roughly $1.6 million since Jan. 1 so far for this year’s primary and general elections. -
Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava’s PAC got $100K from Li’l Abner developer, she helped him secure $9 million in affordable housing funding
By Dan Christensen and Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
A political action committee that fundraises for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took $100,000 from companies run by the controversial developer of Sweetwater’s now empty Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. Her PAC accepted the money as she helped the developer obtain $9 million in government funding for his affordable housing project Abner III during her 2024 bid for re-election. -
A Christmas remembrance: Miami’s 2025 loss of Kinard Shirley and 171 others who died in the streets
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Kinard Shirley was one of 172 homeless people who died this year in Miami. He wasn’t somebody’s father or spouse, but he was a brother and a son. Shirley, 37, was a day laborer at a downtown construction site near North Miami Avenue and NW 6th Street. It’s an intersection of history… -
Political consultant Ulvert cuts deals with Republicans to help his Miami mayoral Democrat win
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Just about every South Florida MAGA Republican, including President Donald Trump, has endorsed former Miami City Manager Emilio Gonzalez to be the city’s next mayor. Recently, two of Miami’s Cuban-American congressional members, Maria Elvira Salazar and Mario Diaz-Balart, joined the Gonzalez bandwagon ahead of the December 9 run-off. But their fellow Cuban- American colleague and staunch Trump regime defender, U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, has avoided making an endorsement. -
Miami-Dade Public Safety Chief James Reyes leverages his government job to boost sheriff campaign
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
On July 28, Miami-Dade Public Safety Chief James “Jem” Reyes took the stage at a rally in Doral for Venezuelan expats protesting their country’s strongman Nicolas Maduro declaring he won another presidential election despite widespread exit polls showing he lost. -
Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava boosts Republican, torpedoes political ambition of her female Democratic staffer
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Daniella Levine Cava rode to victory in 2020 as the first female elected Miami-Dade County mayor by playing up her bona fides as a progressive Democrat even though it was a non-partisan race. Four years later, Levine Cava is aiming to prove Republican lawmakers can count on her even if it means torpedoing the political ambitions of one of her progressive Democrat female staffers.
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