Homestead Mayor Steve Losner hung on to his seat, winning re-election Tuesday by a small margin against former Councilman Elvis Maldonado, who had bounced back from a lost county commission race. Final score: 51 to 49%. The difference was a scant 69 votes. Turnout was abysmal. Just under 10 percent of the 35,408 registered voters […]
Former Homestead Mayor Jeff Porter lost the mayoral three-way primary in Homestead Tuesday, proving, finally, that an honest guy can’t get elected in Miami-Dade. Incumbent Mayor Steve Losner, who got almost 47% of the vote, heads comfortably into a runoff with former Councilman Elvis Maldonado, who left office to run for an open county seat […]
Jeff Porter and Elvis Maldonado have challenged incumbent Steve Losner The Homestead mayoral race is shaping up to be a brutal battle and could be a repeat of the “bloodbath” two years ago. So far it’s a three way that practically guarantees a runoff: Either there will be a rematch between two old rivals or […]
An automated poll in Homestead has raised the possibility of yet another candidate in this year’s already interesting mayoral race. Vice Mayor Jon Burgess was mentioned as one of the candidates in a poll of 250 voters done Thursday (and which, ooops, reportedly reached a number of businesses, too). The poll has some people thinking […]