It’s not strange that a bunch of Republican candidates for this or that office, even non partisan county seats, were at the Christian Family Coalition’s 2022 Miami-Dade Legislative Victory & Candidates Breakfast last month, pandering for the ultra conservative vote. But a judicial candidate?
Incumbent Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Oscar Rodriguez-Fonts took a few minutes to speak to the crowd assembled at the event, featuring Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, where organizers celebrated the recent reversal of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court, which has, ironically, shone a light on how important judicial races are.
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And Circuit Court Judge Robert Watson needs to publicly distance himself
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A ragtag group of attorneys and former elected officials have formed a committee to elect none other than one-time State Rep. and former Miami-Dade School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla.
And it’s just…meh.
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A group of current and former prosecutors will host the next and third judicial forum for Miami-Dade County and Circuit Court candidates on Thursday — but not everybody is going.
Teressa Maria Cervera, who has always gone professionally by the name Tessa Tylman until this election, has been the only one of 14 judicial wannabes who has not shown up to any forum so far. And she is likely skipping the forum Thursday.
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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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Baby Brother is back at it.
Renier Diaz de la Portilla, the youngest in the family’s political dynasty, is running for Miami-Dade County judge — again. RDLP filed paperwork Monday with the Miami-Dade Elections Department showing he opened a campaign account and designated himself as treasurer.
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