Former State Sen. Annette Taddeo announced Monday that she would run for Miami-Dade County Clerk and Comptroller against Juan Fernandez-Barquin, a former state rep that was appointed to the job by Gov. Ron DeSantis last June.
This completes campaign consultant Christian Ulvert‘s dance card for 2024. He’s got all the five of the big countywide races on his watch. Let’s call it the Ulvert Slate:
- For Mayor: La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava again
- For Sheriff: Miami-Dade Public Safety Director James Reyes
- For Supervisor of Elections: former State Rep. JC Planas
- For Tax Collector: former Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson
- For Miami-Dade Clerk: Annette Taddeo
Ulvert is gonna be a busy guy. And 2024 is going to be a lucrative year for him and his team.
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But is it wise? In 2020, Ulvert was so busy with the history-making mayoral race won by Daniella Levine Cava and defending Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins‘ seat from Renier Diaz de la Portilla, that he lost one of the most important races on the ballot: Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez‘s re-election, which was thwarted by a spoiler plantidate who was a GOP voter before he registered as an NPA to rig the race. Ulvert might have known sooner about Alex Rodriguez — who pleaded guilty to accepting illegal campaign donations and lying on campaign documents and agreed to testify against former Sen. Frank Artiles — if he was paying more attention.n
Is Ulvert taking on more than he can chew — again?
Ulvert has always represented Taddeo and helped her become the first Latina Democrat to serve in the Florida Senate when she won a special election in 2017, finally, after years of losing in other races. She was re-elected to a full four-year term a year later. In 2022, Taddeo was convinced to run for congress against Maria Elvira Salazar, who trounced her with 57% of the vote. Last year, she lost a race for Florida Democratic Party chair to Nikki Fried.
Taddeo said in a statement that she would seek “to follow in the tradition of the late Harvey Ruvin, who served as our County Clerk with honor and integrity for three decades.
“We need public servants who will put our county residents first versus special interests or political agendas” Taddeo said. “Our Clerk is a vital role in local government, ensuring that transparency, accountability, and accessibility in our justice system is strong.
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“And now with the addition of Comptroller, I will be laser-focused on protecting our residents’ tax dollars and committed to being a steward of our $11.7 billion budget.”
Taddeo, whose World War II veteran father was kidnapped by FARC guerrillas in Colombia, owns and operates a translation service called LanguageSpeak, which has been named one of the Top 100 Small Businesses in Florida and one of the Top 500 Small Businesses in the United States.
“With three decades of experience running her own business and a proven track record of public service, Annette is a tireless advocate for hardworking Floridians who deserve better representation,” her announcement reads.
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Taddeo is a joke compared to Juan Barquin. He is QUALIFIED & won’t be flying the Colombian flag. She needs to go away & hopefully, take Daniella Levine (who never used Cava) with her. Daniella is the WORST Mayor ever! Everything is a jobs program for her campaign activists (many aren’t even from here but were promised/given top jobs in county) and look at the results! Her priority is being a Social Media Influencer instead of OUR quality of life. Time to TURN the PAGE!
It’s time we all came to terms with what Christian Ulvert is doing to our local politics. Why does a guy on Qatar’s payroll keep giving us the lowest quality candidates? He has a pattern of giving us gullible, incompetent suits of people that are just order-takers willing to be the face of those pulling the strings behind the curtain. We need authenticity. We need competency. And we need people that desire better outcomes for our communities, rather than a desire for a paycheck from taxpayers. We wonder why the same old incompetent vendors keep winning the big government contracts. They helped select the candidates and paid for Christian to get them into office.
Is there any seat Taddeo won’t run for? I’m a Democrat, but honestly, I’m tired of seeing her run (unsuccessfully) for one post after another.
Totally agree with “The Truth” and they are correct . As a County connoisseur Mayor Cava is indeed the worst Mayor Miami Dade County has had. The County bldg, the airport, public places, etc are all inoperative and the worst they have ever been. At least Mayor Jimenez cleaned the daily County Hall building excrements so that Citizens could at least walk into the bldg. Mrs. Cava, County Commissioners and some Department heads are exempt from walking thru the filthy floors. Mayor Cava uses a closed in rear parking lot exclusively for them. I wonder if county citizen funded monies were used to make their private parking area while the rest of the county citizens have to walk thru the filthy floors. Deplorable.
Like my abuelos used to say “no halla en que palo ahorcarse”
Give it up and run your business
Wow. She really has to hold public office, huh? What is it with these failed politicians who keep running for office when they lose? Maybe she should get a job in the private sector instead of continually trying to suckle at the public teat.
Annette Taddeo is not a likeable candidate particularly because she has run for every office known to mankind. People do not take her seriously because of it. As a result, she will lose this race as she has lost just about every other race.
The truth of the matter is that this Mayor is the worst Mayor Miami-Dade County has ever had. She is so bad that people would even prefer Carlos Alvarez over her.
There is no way that she will be allowed to create her personal fiefdom with the slate of candidates under her campaign manager’s direction.
There is a need for separation of powers and most people won’t allow for the power to reside with one person.
In my case, I will not be voting for any of these candidates and will be working hard behind the scenes to ensure none of these candidates get elected.
Here is my prediction. Not the Mayor “Alcadesa Dingbat” nor any of the candidates being managed by Ulvert will win.