And Jose Aragu gets a $300K gift from Ken Griffin
A new poll among more than 500 Republican voters shows that former Miami Commissioner Joe Sanchez, a Florida Highway Patrol spokesman, and Rosanna “Rosie” Cordero-Stutz, an assistant director at the Miami-Dade Police Department, are the No. 1 and No. 2 favorites for Miami-Dade sheriff in the Republican primary next month.
The survey, done over five days ending Monday, gave Sanchez 16.3% of the vote if the race were today. Cordero-Stutz got 13.7%, which is an increase from the last survey, which had her at No. 3. Retired Major Mario Knapp is at No. 3, with 12% of the vote, according to this poll, which Ladra obtained from a very reliable source.
Is it good data? Because former Commissioner Joe Martinez only got 5.9%, which is less than Horse Country and agricop Ernesto “Ernie” Rodriguez, who got 6%. But that could be a result of Martinez’s public corruption arrest two years ago.
Maj. Jose Aragu, of the Midwest District, is at 3.2% and retired Maj. Ignacio “Iggy” Alvarez is at 2.5%. Everyone else should just take a nap already.
Whoever win the GOP primary will go up against Miami-Dade Director of Public Safety James Reyes, who is certain to win the Democrat primary.
The internal poll, conducted by one of the campaigns, also shows that 38% of the voters who responded were still undecided. That’s lower than in a poll done in June.
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But interestingly enough, Joe Sanchez’s share of the votes went down, overall. That means that those undecided votes didn’t go his way. Cordero-Stutz got a bigger share. That could be due to the giant signs with her face next to Donald Trump’s. Cordero-Stutz announced Trump’s endorsement in April.
Aragu’s numbers could also climb from here to Aug. 20, thanks to an injection of $300K in a single contribution from hedge fund king Ken Griffin, which raises questions. The check was made July 11 to the Law & Order political action committee registered at the state. Aragu is the chair.
Why is a guy with a net worth of $29 billion trying to seat a sheriff? How does Aragu even know Griffin, who also gave $500,000 to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava for her re-election campaign?
And here Ladra thought Griffin was a smart guy. But he just threw $300K away.
Maybe Griffin thought he was donating to the Joe Sanchez PAC, which is called Law and Order, without the ampersand.
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