Donald Trump endorses two more Miami-Dade candidates in 2024 election

Donald Trump endorses two more Miami-Dade candidates in 2024 election

Nod in sheriff’s race causes dueling GOP videos One would think that former President Donald Trump is busy enough, what with the hush money trial in full swing, the first of four criminal trials he is facing for more than 90 felony charges. One would think he’d also lie low, particularly in micro local elections […]

4 Miami-Dade constitutional campaigns raise $1.5M+ for historic 2024 ballot

4 Miami-Dade constitutional campaigns raise $1.5M+ for historic 2024 ballot

Between them, the 12 candidates for the four Miami-Dade constitutional offices on the ballot — minus the sheriff’s race — have raised more than $1 million, according to the most recent campaign finance reports. Half of that is thanks to former State Rep and former Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson, who loaned himself $250,000 for […]

Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners raise $1.7 mil plus in three months

Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners raise $1.7 mil plus in three months

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the seven incumbent commissioners up for re-election raised more than $1.7 million between them in the first quarter of the year, according to finance reports filed this week. This includes the $635,185 raised between them in their respective campaign accounts and another $1 million plus in political action committee […]

All labor backs Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s 2nd term — duh

All labor backs Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s 2nd term — duh

She also has the backing of most municipal mayors Almost eight months until the November elections and incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has already sealed up the support from basically every labor union. Like that was even in question? On Tuesday, United Teachers of Dade – Florida’s largest teachers union and the fourth-largest nationally, representing […]

Miami-Dade Fire Captain Omar Blanco runs for office again, in FL House 115

Miami-Dade Fire Captain Omar Blanco runs for office again, in FL House 115

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Captain Omar Blanco, a 20-veteran of the department and former union president, has officially announced that he is running for Florida House of Representatives in District 115, where Rep. Alina Garcia is vacating to run for Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor. It was known that Blanco, who ran for Congress four years ago, would […]

Kendall teacher challenges Miami-Dade D11 Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez

Kendall teacher challenges Miami-Dade D11 Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez

Miami-Dade Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, who was appointed by the governor and has never been elected, has a challenger in this November’s election. School teacher Bryan Paz-Hernandez, former president of the West Kendall Dems — now an NPA — filed paperwork Wednesday intending to run. “I’m tired of the traffic and high cost of housing,” Paz-Hernandez […]

Early voting starts Monday for POTUS primary; equipment passes the test

Early voting starts Monday for POTUS primary; equipment passes the test

All systems are go! The Miami-Dade County Elections Department has finished testing all the 1,700+ voting units that will be deployed for the March 19 Presidential Preference Primary Election. On Wednesday, they reached a “milestone day,” said Elections Supervisor Christine White, when the county conducted the state-required random Logic and Accuracy Test of 5% of […]

Alina Garcia leaves FL House to face Dem for Miami Dade elections chief

Alina Garcia leaves FL House to face Dem for Miami Dade elections chief

The first thing voters need to know about State Rep. Alina Garcia, who will not seek re-election after only two years in the Florida House and will run for the first ever elected Miami-Dade elections supervisor instead — is that she won’t say that the 2020 elections were fair across the U.S. “I can’t speak […]