And she wants to be supervisor of elections

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GOP candidates, gym equipment get thumbs up

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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 increase voter participation, after a 47% turnout in the 2022 election.

They stressed that the forums, which are about an hour long each, were not debates — which is too bad. Ladra misses real debates. But we have to applaud the use of the mute button when the candidates’ time was up. Wish we could do that to sitting electeds.

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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 Brent Latham and Aventura Mayor Howard Weinberg, who each cited Planas’ experience as an elections attorney and his commitment to ensure election integrity as the main reasons for their support.

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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 the Aug. 20 ballot, some are not easy to call. Like the the Miami-Dade mayor’s race (more on that later), or the Republican primary for the new county sheriff. Miami-Dade Public Safety Director James Reyes is the only qualified Democrat. But it’s hard on the crowded GOP ticket, where Ladra likes two or three candidates and personally knows five or six.

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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. It’s apparently a rule.

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