And she wants to be supervisor of elections It was one of Miami’s typical ugly election time displays: A group of campaign workers and activists heckling a candidate with the word “socialista” in front of an early voting locale. Except this time, the “angry mob” included State Rep. Alina Garcia, who is running for Miami-Dade […]
Did the money go to help the needy in District 1? About six months before Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was arrested in September on public corruption charges — for giving away a public park in exchange for more than $245,000 in campaign contributions and thousands more in gifts, meals, drinks and accommodations […]
Nod in sheriff’s race causes dueling GOP videos One would think that former President Donald Trump is busy enough, what with the hush money trial in full swing, the first of four criminal trials he is facing for more than 90 felony charges. One would think he’d also lie low, particularly in micro local elections […]
State Rep. Alina Garcia, a Republican abandoning her seat to run for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, has raised the most of five candidates in the race — and more than both Democrats combined, according to finance reports filed this week for the first quarter of the year. Garcia reported collecting $125,647 in her campaign account, […]
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Captain Omar Blanco, a 20-veteran of the department and former union president, has officially announced that he is running for Florida House of Representatives in District 115, where Rep. Alina Garcia is vacating to run for Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor. It was known that Blanco, who ran for Congress four years ago, would […]
The first thing voters need to know about State Rep. Alina Garcia, who will not seek re-election after only two years in the Florida House and will run for the first ever elected Miami-Dade elections supervisor instead — is that she won’t say that the 2020 elections were fair across the U.S. “I can’t speak […]
Pinecrest Councilwoman Anna Hochkammer — who once aspired to the Florida Senate — is considering a run for State House in District 115, according to a poll that voters got on their cellphones Friday evening. The first questions of the short poll, after identifiers like race and ethnicity, were to gauge the favorability and unfavorability […]
One week, State Rep. Vance Aloupis (R-115) — who broke with his Republican colleagues to vote against the hateful “Don’t Say Gay” bill — announces he’s decided not to run for re-election so he could spend more time with his family. Days later, first time state candidate and longtime Republican political operative Alina García jumped […]
She’s worked for different electeds at all levels — federal, state, county and city. So now, veteran GOP operative Alina Garcia — most recently the “senior political advisor” for Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo — wants to be elected herself. To the Florida Senate. Garcia is waiting for the redistricting to shake out and will run […]
Alina Garcia, a longtime Republican attaché who has worked in the elected offices for Congressman David Rivera, former and disgraced State Sen. Frank Artiles, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Petronis and Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo, has moved to the city of Miami to work for Joe Carollo. For the quinfecta. Garcia has worked two […]