In the Miami-Dade District 11 race, campaign finance reports filed this week show that incumbent Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez — appointed in November of 2022 to fill the vacancy created by the arrest of Joe Martinez on public corruption charges — has raised more than 16 times as much as his only opponent so far, a […]
County has paid for old vacant office for a year Unelected Miami-Dade Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, appointed in November 2022 by the governor to fill the vacant seat in District 11 after Joe Martinez was arrested on public corruption charges, has two district offices — including a vacant one that taxpayers have been shelling out $4,486 […]
Chairman says D11 is not commissioner’s ‘fiefdom’ A relatively benign ordinance to help encourage development and, ideally, workforce housing near Miami International Airport and other county airfields turned into a public scolding Tuesday when Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert took issue with the way Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez took possession of the Miami Executive Airport. “You […]
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 […]