Survey: Phil Levine ekes by, but slate mates are slam dunked

Survey: Phil Levine ekes by, but slate mates are slam dunked
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It’s an informal, unscientific and likely flawed survey, done online via email blasts through Survey Monkey, philip-levinea free site that provides such services, but it gives us what could be the first glimpse of what will happen in Miami Beach Nov. 3.

Despite all the bad press Mayor Philip Levine has gotten lately — what with the streets still flooding and that shady shakedown PAC he defended and, now, his campaign consultant being the lobbyist to redevelop Rebecca Towers — he is still beating attorney David Wieder with 52% of the vote among the 200 voters polled. 

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But Levine could become a lame duck mayor — ala Michael Pizzi in Miami Lakes, who has zero allies on the town council and can’t get a thing passed — because none of his handpicked candidates in the three open seats are winning. In fact, all three slate mates are going down in flames, according to this very unscientific poll.

When asked who they would vote for today, the poll has Mark Weithorn with 59% of the vote, LevineTriobeating Levine slate mate Ricky Arriola (right in photo) who has just 41%. It also Mark Samuelian beating Levine plantidate John Elizabeth Aleman (center in photo), 61% to 39%. In the third group, where there is a clusterbunch of candidates, Levine slate mate Betsy Perez (left in photo) doesn’t even make it to the runoffs, getting only 17%. The top vote getters are Kristen Rosen Gonzalez with 30% and Scott Diffenderfer with 23%. Michael DeFilippi is in fourth place with 15%.

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Even with a six or seven percent margin of error, those gaps are pretty scary for the slate mates.

Ladra got a chance to see the internalScreen shot 2015-10-03 at 1.19.03 PM poll directly from the website, not the campaign that commissioned it, whose anonymity was a condition of access. But the numbers look right to me. They jive with what I’ve been hearing on the street and from my sources.

The poll also questioned voters about the FAR increase on building height for Ocean Terrace, a measure on the ballot, and the convention center hotel. An overwhelming 70% of the voters said they opposed the FAR increase, a measure that was pushed by one developer connected to the mayor through his political consultant. They also overwhelmingly support a convention center hotel, with 65% saying yes.

9 Responses to "Survey: Phil Levine ekes by, but slate mates are slam dunked"

  1. has anyone heard from Frank D.V. lately?
    would be nice if he used his talents to counter
    D.C. and his unethical machine.

  2. Jean, I couldn’t have said it better myself, especially since I don’t have your talent to write!!! I say YAY to David Wieder and heave ho to King Levine, the self appointed King of France and out-lying regions!! And please Phil. Stop calling yourself a Democrat. The Republican party is waiting for you with open arms!!!Don’t let the swinging door hit you on the way out!!

  3. Let there be a Mutual Admiration Society on this forum then!

    We all know that there is no stench without a byre
    Lets hold all their well-heeled feet to the fire ,
    And so say all of us, And so say all of us.

    Plaudits to Mabel Wolf for telling us that Choeff,Custin,Galbut,Kasdin have been cleansed In City Lobbyist’s records which have shrunk from 94 pages to 38 pages overnight. Who did that ?

    LFGCC adds that it might not be legal

    Fruition of all the Mayor’s secretive plans to REWARD PROGRESS may well be concealed in the gobbledygook of those Charter questions on the ballot that “Heart of Darkness “Jonah crafted.
    He was so desperate to get a majority for the first reading of his Absolution Ordinance ,before the chop comes, that he lost his head (yet again!) and insulted two of the present gang of three.
    Stop these Sell Off schemes

    Vote No to three more stooges. And lets get rid of this corrupt Mayor.

  4. This is actually very good news!

    Very few people had even heard of David Wieder a short while ago! Phil Levine was going to be UNopposed, remember?! And when he did get this very brave, very smart opponent — who does not speak in soundbites and tells the facts — all of a sudden he is estimated to get only 52% of the vote, NOT the “landslide” his toadies predicted?

    And excellent news about the Slate… How any intelligent person could vote for any of them… It was becoming a Third World election…! An insult to voters 🙁

    Remember, the mayor can buy time and plaster mailers all over the beach…but maybe, just maybe, this election is not going to go to the highest bidder.

    Vote for David Wieder!

  5. How can a registration of a lobbyist be pulled for his past period? As a research historian I would question its legality under Florida State Records Acts

  6. Philip Levine promises us a new Miami Beach.
    Thanks to Ladra and Kristen Rosen Gonzalez we find out in time
    that he wants it to be “Macao Beach.”
    Not Monaco , folks, thats Macao .
    Mr. Shanjie Li,the CEO of the Da Tang Group and China City Construction says they are planning a Beach Club on an undeveloped site towards the northern end of South Beach.

    Knowing this,can anyone still believe a word he says?

    Yanking a you tube video that features Misery Malakoff in the forefront kvelling at the turnout of the lame and halt, bussed in as support for that Library debate.
    Now a listing that confirms Custin’s involvement is scrubbed from the City website…

    Knowing all this,can any one still vote for him?

    • Jean Kulick… I love you! You have a fabulous way with words and you get right to the heart of things! Brava, Jean, brava!

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