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Low turnout in Miami special election so far with Election Day 24 hours away
Early voting for the Miami special election to fill the vacant commission seat ended Saturday, with a scant 851 voters casting ballots in person since Thursday at three locations: City Hall, County Hall downtown and the Lemon City Library Branch.
Another 3,312 voters have mailed in their ballots.
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago wins automatic re-election with no challenge
Six commission candidates also qualify for two seats in the April 11 race
From the horse’s mouth: Martin Zilber’s judicial assistant speaks in digital video
A new digital video making the rounds on social media gives a scathing first-person account of former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Martin Zilber‘s unethical behavior, as documented by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Committee, and narrated by his very victim, the judicial assistant he abused at work when she was pregnant.
And Dixie Dent, who was ordered to wheel and carry his chair to and from the courtroom, doesn’t sound like she’s forgiven him.
Miguel Gabela wants a rematch vs Alex Diaz de la Portilla in Miami’s District 1
While everyone is watching anxiously to see the results of the special election in Miami’s District 2, Miguel Gabela is already thinking ahead to November and District 1. A perennial candidate, it would be his fourth run.
And his second rematch.
Martin Zilber outraises, outspends all candidates in Miami special election
Former (read: disgraced) Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Martin Zilber has outraised and outspent every other candidate in the special election to fill the vacancy in the Miami Commission District 2 seat. He collected $275,000 in contributions between his campaign account and his political action committee, Beautify Grove Miami.
More than everyone else combined.
Miami park protest arrest leads to Joe ‘Pollo Carollo’ t-shirts, mugs, cap
Part of the proceeds go to the Save the Chickens Defense Fund
First Miami Beach city commission candidate files for November election
Tanya Katzoff Bhatt is an activist, past president of Miami Beach United
Chairman Oliver Gilbert doles out committee seats; some win, some lose
Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert assigned new committees and appointed the commissioner who will serve as chair and vice chair of these new committees.
Every woman on the commission got a chairmanship, which means that five women will be chair of something or other for the first time in county history. That’s a majority of the eight committees.
Deja vu: It’s Nikki Fried vs Annette Taddeo for Florida Dem Party Chair
Former Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Nikki Fried, who lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary last year, announced Monday that she wants to try “something new” — and is running to be the next chair of the Florida Democratic Party.
That pits her against former Sen. Annette Taddeo, who lost her bid for congress last year, in an race to reform and rejuvenate a party that has seen major political losses and division. Fried and Taddeo, who announced her run for the FDP chair about four weeks ago, competed briefly last year in the gubernatorial primary before Taddeo shifted to the congressional race in District 27.
Vince Lago, Alex Bucelo, Ivette Arango O’Doski lead in Gables money race
Does Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago know something we don’t?
Lago doesn’t have a real challenge in this April’s city elections — Jackson “Rip” Holmes can’t beat anyone, let alone the Gables Golden Boy — but he’s raising funds like he’s going to have an opponent. January was his best month, with $58,650 raised, bringing his total to $69,200.
