Category: Politics
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Doral Mayor Bermudez gets free TV airtime in city ad as he fights big monied opponent in Miami-Dade Commission race
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Locked in a heated battle for Miami-Dade County commissioner against an opponent who’s loaned her campaign an audacious $1.2 million, Doral Mayor Juan Carlos Bermudez got a free promotional boost during the last three months of the race via a no-bid $15,000 television ad campaign on CBS4 purchased by the city’s public affairs unit. Bermudez gets the starring role in the 30-second spot. -
After all these years, Marco Rubio still hasn’t figured out how to comply with federal campaign fundraising laws
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Republican Marco Rubio, Florida’s senior U.S. senator, has been in office for more than a decade. You’d think by now he and his minions would have read, understood and complied with federal campaign fundraising law. Nope. -
Radio Loco: A Miami reporter’s journal
By Kirk Nielsen
FloridaBulldog.org
Radio Mambí’s sale comes amid fresh scrutiny of the role of AM radio in sewing misinformation, mistrust. -
Transportation moguls fueling Miami-Dade political campaigns in line for $9 million no-bid contract extension
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A private transportation company with politically astute owners and a troublesome track record could score a $9 million no-bid extension on an expired Miami-Dade contract to operate more than two dozen bus routes. -
Ex-Congressman David Rivera loses ‘last-ditch’ move to avoid $456,000 campaign fine
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
In a severe rebuke of David Rivera, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke denied the former Miami Republican congressman’s “last-ditch effort” to dodge a $456,000 judgment against him tied to his decade-old federal elections campaign violations. -
Sex, Trumpsters, and South Florida’s weirdest court case
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Paternity/child-support cases rarely make the news, if for no other reason than Florida’s law and courts envelop them in secrecy. But the law and the courts didn’t reckon with the likes of A.J. Delgado.
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