Local campaign strategist Michael Caputo likes to employ some fowl play in his election day tactics.
In the mid-1990s, Caputo busted out his patent-pending tactic of using a man-in-a-chicken-suit-to-tail-opponents when he worked for Russian President Boris Yeltsin's campaign.
Back when he was spokesman for ex-School Board Member Frank Bolanos' failed campaign against state Sen. Alex Villalobos, Caputo had a volunteer don a chicken suit too. Bright yellow and bearing the nicknam
This week, North Miami mayoral candidate Frank Wolland went on the offensive for the city's upcoming May 12 municipal election by having a volunteer dress up in a chicken suit and tail opponent Andre Pierre at this past Tuesday's city council meeting and at yesterday's mayoral candidate forum.Wolland is calling Pierre a chicken because the Haitian-American lawyer won't divulge to voters some very important information about himself.Specifically, Pierre has been reluctant to say anything about h
This past April 30, I wrote about North Miami mayoral candidate Frank Wolland calling out opponent Andre Pierre for supposedly refusing to answer questions about his 4.9 percent ownership interest in North Miami Housing Ltd. The partnership was established by the developers of Biscayne Landing, a controversial 193-acre residential and office project being built just east of Biscayne Boulevard, to sell 5,800 affordable housing units. My post made it appear that Pierre still had a financial inter
