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.
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.
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.
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.
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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