Two Miami-Dade commission incumbents won last week with little oppositional pressure and/or much fanfare.
Commissioner Keon Hardemon fought back an attempt by former Commissioner Audrey Edmonson to grab her District 3 seat back, winning 61% of the vote. And Commissioner Roberto “Rob” Gonzalez — appointed by the governor to replace suspended Joe Martinez after his 2022 arrest on public corruption charges — beat back two challengers, including teacher Bryan Paz-Hernandez, who will hopefully run again — to finally be an elected on the dais, getting 57% of the vote.
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Nothing is going to change in the Debbie Mucarsel-Powell campaign.
Since Day 1, the former congresswoman, who handily beat three others in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, has concentrated on the real enemy: U.S. Sen. Rick Scott. She’s been hitting him consistently.
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But gap between Dem and GOP voters was small
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On a short but heated exchange on Miami AM radio Wednesday morning, Trooper Joe Sanchez, a candidate for Miami-Dade sheriff, defended his record and rejected a one-on-one debate with attorney Ignacio “Iggy” Alvarez, a former Miami-Dade Police major and another candidate in the crowded GOP primary.
Sanchez, a former City of Miami commissioner who has been the Florida Highway Patrol’s pubic information officer for 15 years, called into Nelson Rubio’s En Directo show on America Radio WSUA to take issue with the characterization of his experience as mostly ticket-writing and protection of dignitaries, as he enjoys a hefty pension from the city.
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Alian Collazo is not a wealthy guy. The Tampa transplant running for Florida House District 115 as a plantidate filed a financial disclosure where he reported earning $40,500 as a Florida State employee and said he had $1,354.91 in a checking account on June 12.
His only other assets were a $6,673.54 retirement account and a $528,465 house in Largo, which his mother gave him in 2021.
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The most interesting thing about the latest poll released last week by Democrat consultant extraordinaire Christian Ulvert is that he predicts two Republican winners in the Aug. 20 primary.
The poll pits Dariel Fernandez against former state rep and city of Miami Beach commissioner David Richardson in the November general election, and, more interestingly, it has Miami-Dace Police Assistant Chief Rosanna “Rosie” Cordero-Stutz beating the presumptuous Trooper Joe Sanchez, a former Miami commissioner, for the race against Democrat James Reyes, currently the county’s chief of public safety who has been campaigning with a side arm (more on that later).
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