Get those calendars out. There will be at least one virtual forum for each of the five Miami-Dade County Commission races on the August ballot thanks to The Miami Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to bring the philanthropic, leadership and civic communities of Miami together.
The forums won’t start until after absentee or mail-in ballots go out next week, so hang on to those for now. And the Miami Foundation is closely allied to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, so one might think that they’re going to be biased in favor of her favorites. But it’s something.
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If there was any doubt that Monica Colucci was a Republican Party plant in the Miami-Dade School Board race against Marta Perez, there isn’t any now that she’s filed several campaign finance reports.
Colucci reported raising $104,362 through July 1– not a bad figure for a newbie. But a closer look at the funding finds that at least $20,000 came from lobbyist and political consultants. Another $30,000 came from no fewer than 30 different political action committees that seem to have nothing to do with Miami-Dade K-12 education.
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Sure, there are four candidates in the Miami-Dade Commission race to replace longtime Commissioner Rebeca Sosa in District 6. But it’s really a head-to-head between Coral Gables Commissioner Jorge Fors and political operative Kevin Marino Cabrera.
And it looks like it’s headed to be the most heated of the county commission contests.
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Former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera just sucked all the air out of the Florida state primary this August.
Rivera surprised everybody when he qualified Friday to run for state rep in the open 119 District against a bunch of other Republicans who are suddenly in an interesting, nationally-watched race.
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At noon Tuesday, former Miami Beach Commissioner Micky Steinberg became a Miami-Dade county commissioner after nobody qualified to run against her in District 4, where Sally Heyman is termed out.
It is the only county commission race that is uncontested — maybe the $400K she raised scared would-bes away — as 19 other candidates qualified in the five other districts on this year’s ballot.
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In every election, judicial races get short shrift. They are the least studied, the least written about, the least talked about. Voters often don’t even know who they are putting on the bench, making decisions based on whether the names reflect their own ethnicity, or along gender lines.
It certainly doesn’t help that judges, in order to keep the perception of being unbiased, are not allowed to campaign on ideas or positions. So, it basically becomes a popularity contest, about whose name has more rec.
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