Add yet another big endorsement to Ralph Cabrera‘s bid to return to the Coral Gables city commission: Former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas endorsed the former commissioner in a web video released Wednesday.
“As mayor of Miami-Dade County, I had the pleasure of working side by side with Ralph and I always found him to be a forward-thinking commissioner, 
someone who always had creative ideas for the city of Coral Gables,” Penelas says in the 38-second message posted on Facebook.
“For example, we worked together to bring a lot of the trolleys that you see now in Coral Gables because he knew that the residents, visitors and people who work in Coral Gables, they needed that first and last mile option,” he said.
“That’s the kind of leader Ralph was then, and I know he is going to be that kind of leader again now.”
Penelas brings big points on Cabrera’s endorsement scorecard, so let’s take another look at the comparisons between his support and the backing for the other candidate in the runoff, Jorge L. Fors, Jr.
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Cabrera now has Penelas, City Commissioners Vince Lago and Pat Keon, 
ormer Commissioner and Mayor Dorothy Thomson, former Commissioner Maria Anderson, former Mayor Don Slesnick, the Miami Herald, the police, the firefighters and the gays (SAVE). He also has support, in the form of maximum $1,000 contributions, from Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez and former State Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla.
It’s a nice mix of Dems, Republicans and even an Independent.
Fors, who has never served a day on a city board or committee, has former 
Mayor Jim Cason, former interim city manager Carmen Olazabal and Commissioner Frank Quesada, who has better things to do than run for re-election, and former City Commissioner Wayne “Chip” Withers, who lost his own comeback bid and doesn’t want Cabrera to get one. Sour grapes.
Quite literally, cuatro gatos.
Wonder if the same lopsided results will come out of Tuesday’s runoff.
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