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 […]
GOP candidates, gym equipment get thumbs up A Democrat candidate for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections has distributed hundreds, maybe thousands of slate cards with endorsements for the Aug. 20 ballot that include judges, the county mayor, the county sheriff’s race — and two Republican incumbents that have never been elected but were, instead, appointed by […]
Let’s thank the Miami Foundation for having and recording a series of forums this month with candidates for several races on the August 20 ballot — and posting them on their website for all voters to see. We are lucky that they think it’s important. It is part of the Vote Miami awareness initiative to […]
As the primary for the constitutional offices nears its closing, former State Rep. JC Planas, an attorney running for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, has gotten the endorsement of four mayors from Miami-Dade municipalities. The Planas campaign announced this week endorsements from South Miami Mayor Javier Fernandez, Bay Harbor Mayor Joshua Fuller, North Bay Village Mayor […]
Absentee or mail-in ballots started arriving at voters’ homes more than a week ago. That means people are already voting for their county commissioners, mayor, judges, school board members, and state legislators and county constitutional officers in their preferred party primary. Most of the really good races don’t happen until November. And among those on […]
Whether it’s parades, picnics, concerts or just the fireworks show, it wouldn’t be a Fourth of July event in Miami-Dade if there wasn’t an elected from the county or one of it’s 34 municipalities out celebrating with loved ones, friends and constituents. Wannabe electeds must go out and campaignwith their very visible t-shirts and hats. […]
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, […]
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 […]
From state representative to attorney to the pols to Elections Supervisor? That’s the track former State Rep. JC Planas, who has become the premier elections attorney in town, hopes to take. Planas, 52, presented paperwork Friday to run for Supervisor of Elections in 2024. A reformed Republican turned blue after Donald Trump won the White […]
Some of the Miami voters who signed the petition to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo have reported getting visits in the last week or so from young women who ask them to sign another form that, while it’s not clear right away, would recant their earlier pledge, according to several sources. That means that, even as […]