The campaigning for state seats in this year’s election has begun in earnest. Looks like the first meet and greet of the season is in Coral Gables Tuesday.
Four Democrat candidates for state office will be there for a Q&A at the Coral Gables Democratic Club’s monthly meeting. Among them, only State Rep. Michael Grieco — now running for state senate — has already been elected. He is challenging Republican incumbent Ileana Garcia in Florida Senate District 36.
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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 in either District 37 or District 40 — which is vacated by Sen. Annette Taddeo‘s run for governor — wherever incumbent Sen. Ileana Garcia doesn’t run. She is going to wait for the other Garcia’s cue, but she already opened a political action committee called Florida Always First. In November.
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It wouldn’t be the 305 if there wasn’t at least one seat switch in the midterm elections, right?
Janelle Perez, the cancer survivor, healthcare executive and lesbian activist who had announced last month she would run against Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar next year, has switched races and will challenge Florida Sen. Ileana Garcia instead.
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This means Sen. Ileana Garcia won illegally
Developing story: Disgraced former Sen. Frank Artiles surrendered to authorities Thursday, walking into the Turner Guilford Knight jail facility near the airport and depriving us the joy of a perp walk.
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State investigates his involvement in sham senate race
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