Renier Diaz de la Portilla loses second judicial bid, fourth race in a row

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It’s time for Ladra to make her recommendations for this Aug. 23 ballot. There’s nothing any of the candidates can do at this point to change my mind and early voting has already started.

Hell, more than 100,000 people have voted already (more on that later).

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Haitian leaders have denounced attack mailers attacking longtime Miami-Dade Judge Fred Seraphin, the first Haitian-American judge to be appointed in Miami-Dade, for spreading lies to mislead voters about his false arrest as a teenager. And attorney J.C. Planas filed a bar complaint against former School Board member and judicial candidate Renier Diaz de la Portilla, whose brother designed and paid for the hit pieces that wrongfully call Seraphin a criminal.

Seraphin has repeatedly told everyone that he was racially profiled when he was picked up by New York City Police in 1982, his senior year in college. Charges were never brought against him, but the incident caused him to become a public defender and, later, pursue the bench. He talks about the false arrest at every candidates’ forum and every chance he gets.

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He has not endorsed colleague Jorge Fors in the county commission race

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Former colleague says he used her in a hit piece without her knowledge

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Judicial races are different, everybody says. They are more civil. They aren’t as vitriolic as state or county races in South Florida, where candidates are “communists” and investigations are exaggerated or made up altogether.

Well, maybe they were different — before Renier Diaz de la Portilla decided to run against an incumbent non-Hispanic judge.

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