Alex Izaguirre Today Banana Republican begins a weekly series assessing candidates running for various municipal elected offices this year. Let's turn our attention to the district three city commission race in Miami where we have seven contenders vying to replace Joe Sanchez, who is running for mayor. The district includes the affluent Roads neighborhood and the predominantly blue collar Cuban stronghold of Little Havana. Here we have Luis Morse, who so far has raised about $17,300 in campa
Alex Izaguirre​ In this year's City of Miami elections, the theme is "Taking It Back to the Old School," considering Frank Carollo, brother of mercurial ex-Mayor Joe Carollo, is running for Joe Sanchez's seat. And then there is Francis Xavier Suarez, who wants to replace Tomas Regalado on the commission dais. Francis is the son of Miami's original mayor loco, Xavier Suarez. He's the guy who showed up at a constituent's house in a bathrobe in the early wee hours because he didn't like wha
