Two, maybe three Miami-Dade School Board races this year have been seized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez as part of a statewide effort to unseat more than two dozen local school board members who didn’t back the guv’s hardline stance against masks mandates in schools. Perla Tabares Hantman, Marta Perez […]
Political Cortadito was the first to tell everyone that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his team — principally Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, because she is from here — recruited hardline Republicans to challenge three Miami-Dade School Board members that didn’t toe the GOP line against mandated COVID-19 facemasks. Well, now they’ve doubled down with digital […]
Will the last incumbent get a challenge by qualifying deadline? Three of the four Miami-Dade School Board races are filling out with about three weeks left before the qualifying deadline. Robert Alonso, who filed against veteran Perla Tabares Hantman then suddenly decided to retire after almost 30 years. Maribel Balbin, former president of the League […]