Between them, the 12 candidates for the four Miami-Dade constitutional offices on the ballot — minus the sheriff’s race — have raised more than $1 million, according to the most recent campaign finance reports.

Half of that is thanks to former State Rep and former Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson, who loaned himself $250,000 for his campaign for tax collector. He raised another $80,400 and rolled $174,200 from his previous campaign coffers for a total of $504,600. He’s the only Democrat in the race, so far.

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State Rep. Alina Garcia, a Republican abandoning her seat to run for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, has raised the most of five candidates in the race — and more than both Democrats combined, according to finance reports filed this week for the first quarter of the year.

Garcia reported collecting $125,647 in her campaign account, which is more than twice as much as both former State Rep. JC Planas, the local politicos’ go-to attorney for election law, has raised ($54,856), and political consultant Willis Howard has raised ($44,040).

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Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the seven incumbent commissioners up for re-election raised more than $1.7 million between them in the first quarter of the year, according to finance reports filed this week. This includes the $635,185 raised between them in their respective campaign accounts and another $1 million plus in political action committee funds.

About of a third of last quarter’s take is for the four candidates who are as of yet unopposed.

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In the Miami-Dade District 11 race, campaign finance reports filed this week show that incumbent Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez — appointed in November of 2022 to fill the vacancy created by the arrest of Joe Martinez on public corruption charges — has raised more than 16 times as much as his only opponent so far, a schoolteacher who announced he would run for the seat in late February.

But that’s only if you count his campaign account. When you bring his political action committee into it, Gonzalez has raised more than three quarter of a million dollars since January — so it’s 117 times what’s been collected by Bryan Paz-Hernandez, who has only been campaigning for five weeks.

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From state representative to attorney to the pols to Elections Supervisor? That’s the track former State Rep. JC Planas, who has become the premier elections attorney in town, hopes to take.

Planas, 52, presented paperwork Friday to run for Supervisor of Elections in 2024. A reformed Republican turned blue after Donald Trump won the White House in 2020, he also blames Trump’s attempt in 2020 to pervert the system for his interest in the position.

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