Updated: He did it! Ending months of speculation, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo filed paperwork indicating that he is going to run for mayor in the November race in 45 days, after all. He didn’t qualify — yet. But he has until 6 p.m. Saturday to do so.
Carollo said on his morning radio show Friday said he had not actually made up his mind about “taking the final step.” But if he does, “I know I’m stepping into the fire because what’s coming is inhuman.” He said he was going to pray, as if God would listen to him, and talk it over with his wife Marjory, as if he hasn’t talked it over ad nauseam with her already.
But he’s running. Because who else is going to pay his legal bills?
The termed out veteran Miami pol has been hinting at his run, every single morning on his radio show, Miami Al Dia, which he used Friday morning to say how he was going to fix everything “when I am mayor of Miami,” how he fixed everything once before and “acted with honesty and integrity.
Read related: How much longer will Miami taxpayers pay for Crazy Joe Carollo’s lawyers?
“And that is something none of these people can erase,” Carollo said, calling some of the other mayoral candidates “idiots of the extreme left who vomit hate and lies and defamation for ideology or for the little dollars they get.”
He said that the last time he was mayor, the city was “in the worst financial crisis in the history of Miami… and Joe Corollo was the mayor who looked for the solutions and led this city out of it.”
Carollo joins a clusterbunch of candidates in the race. Former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez — who sued the city to make sure the election happened after commissioners cancelled it in May — is a favorite target of his show. As is “leftist” Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins and former Miami Commissioner Ken Russell. He calls former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, a onetime ally before the former senator was arrested on public corruption charges and suspended in 2023, “King Mamey,” because of the fruit that ADLP hands out to voters in his campaign goody bag.
Gonzalez, Higgins and Russell had all qualified by Friday, when Carollo filed his bank account papers. Diaz de la Portilla had not. It’s still just a threat from him. Same goes for Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez, the father of the current Miami mayor who himself was elected the first Cuban-born mayor of Miami. The deadline is  6 p.m. Saturday. People close to him told Political Cortadito that his heart is not in it and that he won’t follow through if he does not see a path forward. He also doesn’t want to keep pissing off his family. Oops. It looks like they were wrong. X qualified Friday.
Software giant Fred Voccola is also a no-show so far, despite spending a small fortune on text messages, a website and digital ads. And the most recent name to pop up, Kenneth James DeSantis — a relative of the governor’s — is “still on the fence.”
Read related: Fred “Who?” Voccola could be a Francis Suarez reboot for Miami mayor’s race
Qualifying so far: Community Council Member Christian Cevallos, Laura Anderson, who identifies with the socialist workers party — but has zero union endorsements — Alyssa Crocker, Michael Hepburn and June Savage.
Carollo has been hinting at running for months. Earlier this week, he said he received calls from Channel 10 and The Miami Herald asking him if he was going to do it.
“And The Miami Herald told me that my entry into the race would change everything,” he said, clearly flattered, even though he calls the paper the Miami Granma, which is the name of the communist party’s newspaper in Cuba. “Can you believe that? That Joe Carollo could change the election just by running?”
He believes it.
A recent poll has Higgins getting into the runoff with Gonzalez, who has gained a lot of free media exposure for his lawsuit against the city of Miami after commissioners in May voted to change the election from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years, which effectively cancelled this year’s races for mayor and commissioners in districts 3 and 5. He won in court and is considered sort of a hero for saving the election, a title he is riding all the way to the ballot box. A recent video from his campaign calls the other candidates “cheerleaders” (more on that later).
Carollo is an easy target because of the lawsuits against him — including the First Amendment demand from the Little Havana business owners that got a jury award of $63.5 million — and the costs the city has incurred because of them. There was a failed recall attempt against him in 2020 that was thwarted on a technicality after the city claimed it was not filed before the deadline.
But he also hits hard. His certain entry into the race means it’s going to get uglier than it has already. All we need now is ADLP to jump into the clown car and we have got ourselves one fun 45 days in front of us.
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New mayor wannabe calls the guv ‘Uncle Ron’
Two days before the qualifying deadline and 46 days before the November election, someone named Kenneth James DeSantis has entered the Miami mayoral race.
Well, maybe. He isn’t completely decided.
DeSantis, who told Political Cortadito that he is, indeed, related to the Florida governor — “not closely,” but he still calls him “Uncle Ron” — only opened a bank account, which is a prerequisite to qualifying. He still has until 6 p.m. Saturday to do that.
“I think I might be a little too late for this campaign,” he told Ladra, hours after he filed the initial paperwork with the City Clerk. “I’m kind of on the fence still. It might be better to run in the next election cycle.”
For commissioner in District 4, that is. If he runs for mayor, DeSantis knows he’s not a shoe-in, despite his enviable name recognition. But he can build up his political profile — which is non-existent right now — for another run in two years. Or he could wait. With name rec like his, he can build his profile without running.
He might want to get a little involved first. You know, go to a commission meeting or two. Maybe get his feet wet on a city board. DeSantis admits he may have gotten a bit excited after watching Hamilton for the 50th time recently.
Read related: Ken Russell qualifies for November Miami mayoral race; ADLP dips one toe
Las malas lenguas say that “K.J.” DeSantis has been thrust into the race by some political operative to steal Republican votes from former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez — who is running in the non-partisan mayoral race after suing the city to make sure it happened — and Commissioner Joe Carollo, who filed paperwork early Friday (more on that later). Even from former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who has also filed bank account information and must qualify by Saturday. Is that the idea? DeSants wouldn’t likely steal votes from Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins or former Miami Commissioner Ken Russell.
In fact, DeSantis said he likes Russell and Higgins. He met them at a meet-and-greet for candidates and liked what they had to say, he told Political Cortadito. But at the same time, he apparently felt that there wasn’t anybody really leading the race. And that was tempting enough. “I also was appalled as to what passes as a political candidate in Miami,” DeSantis said.
He meant Carollo.
But nobody thinks DeSantis is serious. Not even DeSantis.
A few political observers have thought that maybe someone pulled a Frank Artiles, which is a move named for the disgraced former senator who ran a sham candidate with a confusing name in a state senate race. Running a KJD against a KJR, or two Ken J.s, in the race to confuse people. It may seem far-fetched, but Russell’s sign basically say “KEN” in big bold letters on top of Russell and Ken DeSantis will be on the ballot before Ken Russell — so it’s possible he peels votes away.
Our Miami DeSantis has lived in the city for three years and is currently a resident at the DaVinci on the Douglas Condominiums, which is almost Coral Gables, according to the papers he filed with the Miami city clerk. He is registered to vote as an NPA (no party affiliation) — yes, Ladra was also surprised — and is a junior associate at Cole, Scott and Kissane, where he specializes in general liability cases, including personal injury, wrongful death, negligent security, premises liability, and maritime law, according to the law firm’s website. It’s unlikely the partners are going to like this idea, which could take away from his billable hours. It’s another reason he is rethinking it.
“Prior to joining the firm, Mr. DeSantis worked in corporate compliance, served as general counsel in the mortgage industry, and gained experience in aviation and real estate law,” the website says.
He’s a transplant, having earned his law degree at the University of Richmond, and has lived in Miami for three years. But he still has a White Plains, NY, area code and answers his phone, “James.” When Ladra first called him Thursday he was heading into a deposition, but said he would call back. And he did.
Read related: Neighbor vs neighbor in Miami District 1 as Eleazar Melendez files
And DeSantis asked more questions than Ladra. Who did I think was leading? Should he wait or jump in? Was it too late? How would voters respond to a Democrat DeSantis? Yeah, he asked that. Ladra told him the world would embrace it.
He also asked these questions of Elezear Melendez, a former Daily Business Review reporter who served as chief of staff to Ken Russell and then ran for District 1 against Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Melendez told Political Cortadito that he sat down with DeSantis at the request of a mutual friend. But he did not encourage DeSantis to run. In fact, he encouraged him to wait and maybe work on another candidate’s campaign to learn.
“Obviously, he didn’t take my advice.”
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Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla hasn’t filed any official paperwork to run for mayor this year, but you’d never know it judging by the money trail and the paltry little care packages he has been leaving on doorsteps in The Roads.
After more than a year of reporting no contributions, Diaz de la Portilla’s political action committee, Proven Leadership for Miami-Dade County, reported a new $275,500 collected in the second quarter this year, through June 30. More than half, or $142,000, is his own money. From where? Who knows? In his divorce case, Diaz de la Portilla has gone after his estranged wife to pay his legal fees. But he has $142K to slip into a PAC account. ADLP listed his profession as a consultant, but the money could have easily come from the sale of another one of the properties he stole, er, bought from his parents.
Read related: Alex Diaz de la Portilla is knocking, giving out mameys to be Miami mayor
The largest outside gift is $100K from David and Leila Centner. Yes, the same Centners who own the private school and who tried to bribe Diaz de la Portilla before, leading to felony political corruption charges filed against him in 2023. Allegedly.
ADLP was removed from his seat by the governor after he was charged with bribery, money laundering and 12 other felonies in September of 2023. He was accused of taking more than $300,000 — $245K in PAC donations and the rest in hotel accommodations, meals and booze — in exchange for getting the commission to agree to give away a public park for the school’s exclusive use most of the time. The Centner Academy, across the street from Biscayne Park, would build a $10 million sports dome that would be open to the public about a third of the time — and probably for a fee.
The criminal charges were dropped last year, but that might only mean that the Broward County State Attorney — who had to handle the case after our own esteemed prosecutor said she had a conflict (again) — didn’t really care too much about it. It doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. In fact, the lobbyist arrested with Diaz de la Portilla — attorney William “Bill” Riley, who represented the Centers — is suing them couple to recover thousands of dollars he spent on his defense, saying they let him “take the fall.”
A story from earlier this year in the Miami Herald said Riley’s attorneys say the Centners “feigned ignorance” about the contributions and gifts to ADLP, even though “they well knew what he had done at their specific direction.”
So, is this $100,000 their way of saying “Thank you for not suing us?” Or are they seriously thinking that the park could still be theirs if Diaz de la Portilla miraculously becomes the mayor?
Read related: Public corruption charges dropped against Miami’s Alex Diaz de la Portilla
Diaz de la Portilla is also spending the PAC money like he’s running, burning through almost $110,000 in three months. The PAC spent $108,000 and raised nothing in the first quarter and spent $68,000 and raised nothing in the last two months of 2024.
Of the recent expenses listed, almost $17,000 has gone to Julio Guillen, his family’s longtime gopher and one of his ghosts employees when he was a commissioner. Another $11,000 has gone to Sasha Tirador, the absentee ballot queen who is more at home in Hialeah.
And $3,000 was paid in May for legal compliance services to attorney Yesenia Collazo, the former chairwoman of the Proven Leadership PAC, who also got a rather questionable $175,000 grant from the city’s anti-poverty funds from the former District 1 commissioner five months before he was arrested. Collazo is also billing the city’s taxpayers $208,000 for defending Diaz de la Portilla — one of five attorneys billing a total of $1.3 million — in defense of those very same public corruption charges that were dropped last fall.
What? The Centners can’t pay Collazo directly?
Read related: City of Miami may pay $1.3 mil for Alex Diaz de la Portilla’s criminal defense
The PAC also reported spending at least $13,000 on printing, which you can’t tell by the old collaterals Diaz de la Portilla is dropping off with voters this week. Both of the printed pieces are old.
Hell, there’s even one from when the new pope was named — and that was in early May. People already got this in the mail and now they’re getting it again in his little green bag.
At least $8,100 seems to have gone to Reyes del Mamey, for the typical Cuban fruit Diaz de la Portilla has been passing out at senior housing and dropping off at doorsteps — most recently, with a can of milk so voters can make batidos de mamey.
How sweet.
Maybe they should write a thank you note — to the Centners.
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Half a mil is from candidate’s asset management firm
Even before former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez won his lawsuit against the city of Miami for cancelling this year’s election, the retired Army colonel had raised a little more than $750,000 for his mayoral run between his campaign account and his political action committee, Mission Miami.
His campaign account has raised a modest $69,280, according to the campaign finance reports for the second quarter, through June 30. But his PAC, formed in March and chaired by Tallahassee operative Christian R. Camara, raked in a jaw-dropping $681,055 in just three months. And if you think that came in $20 checks from abuelitas, think again.
El pez gordo here is a Wall Street outfit called RIA R Squared — an investment management firm that primarily serves foreign institutional investors. It’s also where Gonzalez has worked for the last five years after leaving the city manager’s job in 2020 under pressure by the commission, primarily Commissioner Joe Carollo. Gonzalez is a partner at R Squared, which manages approximately $1 billion in assets on a “discretionary basis” — and dropped not one, but two $250,000 checks to Mission Miami in April. That’s half a million bucks right there, gente. Enough to buy two condos in Allapattah. Cash.
There’s also a $15,000 contribution from Timothy Patrick Torline, who is a financial advisor at an R Squared subsidiary. And $1,000 from David Kang, the CEO of that subsidiary.
Read related: Third DCA strikes down Miami election change; November ballot is on
“They believe in me,” Gonzalez told Political Cortadito, adding that he does no sales and his company does no business in the state of Florida. “They simply believe in what I stand for and my vision for the city.”
Gonzalez, who has never run for office or had a political action committee before, is starting from scratch and doesn’t have anybody to shake down like Carollo does. He doesn’t have the power of incumbency like Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins, whose PAC raised $250,000 in the same period.
The other big donors to the Gonzalez Mission Miami PAC are:

$30,000 in two checks, for $18K and $12K, from Palmetto Bay’s Roger West, CEO of Pyramids Property Management.
$25,000 from SGD Offices, a Doral company with Max Alvarez as one of its principals.
$25,000 from Peninsula 2705 LLC, a North Miami Beach real estate holding.
$23,000 from the law offices of Miguel Inda-Romero.
$10,000 from the Carlos M. De La Cruz Revocable Trust in Key Biscayne.
$10,000 from Maybe Beach attorney Jay Eric Gould.
$10,000 from Juan “J.C.” Flores, a Tallahassee political operative who has worked for Marco Rubio and Carlos Giménez.
$10,000 from Black River Productions, an audio studio in Doral.

On paper, Gonzalez’s own campaign account looks modest by comparison: about $69,000 raised in Q2 from nearly 146 donors, most of them local. Notable names include:

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The Third District Court of Appeal hasn’t dropped its ruling yet on whether the City of Miami can just cancel its elections like a bad brunch reservation, but the smart money is on Emilio Gonzalez — the former city manager who sued to undo the shady ordinance that postponed this year’s mayoral race (and two commission contests) until 2026.
Gonzalez wants to run for mayor now, not next year. After all, he’s been campaigning for months. Last week, Miami-Dade Judge Valerie Manno Schurr agreed, ruling the city commission’s change of the election by ordinance without a voter referendum was unconstitutional because it violates both the city and county charters, which trump state law. So, super duper unconstitutional.
Read related: Miami-Dade Judge: Miami Commission can’t cancel election without public vote
In other words: Commissioners cannot just cancel the election because they feel like it. Not even if they say it really fast in legalese. Or hold up props, which is what the city’s hired gun, outside attorney Dwayne Robinson, did in moment of legal theater that would make Shakespeare cringe. Robinson stood there holding two printed copies of the city charter — one from before the election-postponing ordinance passed and one from after — and told the court: “There is no change. There is no amendment. Nothing is repealed.”
Nothing’s changed? Except the whole part where the city commission gave themselves another year in office, moved the election to 2026, and completely ignored the charter’s very clear instruction that elections be held in odd-numbered years. But yeah, nothing’s changed.
Robinson barely made it a minute in before Judge Monica Gordo interrupted with a polite but pointed, “The charter is the city’s constitution, is it not?”
“Why would the commission hang its hat on a permissive state statute when they have a constitution confronting them with a ‘shall,’” Gordo asked, rhetorically because you could tell she already knows the answer is they cannot.
You could almost feel the eye rolls from the bench. And Gordo wasn’t the only one wondering why she was there. Because the city’s legal logic would get laughed out of a mock trial at Jose Marti Middle School.
Judge Kevin Emas seemed frustrated with the city’s argument that, hey, moving an election without voter approval was totally legit and not at all a coup in slow motion. Judge Fleur Lobree seemed bored. She scooped up her documents and notes to leave before the city’s rebuttal was even finished.
Several times Emas made the point that Gonzalez and his attorneys were making: You can’t have a charter and a code that contradict each other and expect this not to end in chaos.
Read related: First lawsuit filed to stop city of Miami from cancelling November election
Attorney Alan Lawson, a former Florida Supreme Court Justice representing González, called the city’s argument “a semantic sleight of hand.” Well, that could describe a lot of discussions at city commission meetings. Basically, Lawson said, if the charter says elections are in odd years, and you pass something that says otherwise, then you’re changing the charter — and you need a referendum. Voters get a say. It’s really not that hard.
“They say, ‘We didn’t amend the charter. The words are still there in the charter,’” Lawson said about the city’s argument. “They say that this is just an alternative means of rule-making in an area historically limited to the referendum process. They say it’s an alternate path.”
And if the commission can take an “alternate path,” why bother with a charter at all?
“Lincoln famously said that you can call a tail a leg but it doesn’t make it so,” Lawson said. What if they call a tail the head?
In other words: saying “we didn’t change the charter, we just ignored part of it” is the legal equivalent of “it’s not cheating if I close one eye.”
Even Miami-Dade County showed up to remind the city that they’re not above the rules. And when the county feels the need to weigh in on how broken your logic is, you know you’ve lost the room. Assistant County Attorney Michael Valdes told the judges that under the Miami-Dade Home Rule Charter — aka our local constitution — changes like this must go to the voters. You’d think that would be obvious to a city with more lawyers than potholes.
The city’s rebuttal? That the charter isn’t a “magic document that cannot be altered unless there’s a referendum.” Oh really? So is it a suggestion box? A pirate map? A mood ring? A souvenir from when there was democracy in Miami?
If it’s not binding, then what is? The whims of three commissioners?
But, you know, a Miami courtroom drama isn’t complete if there’s not a Carollo cameo. And here, there were two.
Frank Carollo watches intently while county attorney Michael Valdes argues the home rule charter trumps state law
Commissioner Joe Carollo wasn’t there Tuesday — but he wanted to be. As if he didn’t have enough legal battles of his own, Carollo — who always wants to be el protagonista — wanted to insert himself into someone else’s courtroom drama. Crazy Joe loves the sound of his own voice. Y como un colado in a quinceañera he wasn’t invited to, Carollo asked the court to let him speak at oral arguments in a case he’s not even a party to.
The Gonzalez legal team told the judges that this was disruptive and that Carollo simply wanted to grandstand. Ya think? The DCA judges — who may have seen Carollo drone on and on and on at commission meetings — told him nananina. They saved themselves.
But his brother was there. Former Commissioner Frank Carollo, who has filed to run again in District 3, sat behind Gonzalez in the audience and looked glum. He later made a comment to the press outside because he doesn’t want Gonzalez to be the only one getting a ton of earned media for suing the city.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, was also in the courtroom, in the front row. Suarez is hoping the city prevails so he can have an extra year in office to increase his net worth even more.
Read related: Miami Commissioners pass election date change — and steal an extra year
Observers expect the judges to issue a ruling soon. Ladra is surprised it’s taken them this long because their skepticism was pretty evident at the hearing.
This isn’t about “clarifying” the charter or “modernizing” elections. This is about commissioners handing themselves an extra year in office and hoping no one would notice.
Well, guess what? People noticed.
So did Judge Manno Schurr, and now three appellate judges seem poised to deliver the same message: You want to change an election date? Ask the damn voters.
A ruling is expected soon. Ladra just hopes the city doesn’t try to drag this into extra innings with another appeal. Haven’t we wasted enough taxpayer money already?
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Miami’s political telenovela just cast another familiar face: Former Miami Mayor and former District 7 Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez wants his old job back — and maybe a rematch with Commissioner Joe Carollo.
Just hours after a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge on Monday declared the Miami City Commission’s election year change by ordinance unconstitutional, effectively rescheduling the cancelled election, Suarez — who had been considering a run and was included in multiple polls — popped out of the shadows to announce its official.
Read related: Miami-Dade Judge: Miami Commission can’t cancel election without public vote
That’s right. The O.G. of Miami’s Cuban political club, the first island-born mayor of the Magic City, and papi to current Mayor Francis Suarez, is officially hitching a ride in the clown car that is the next Miami mayoral election — whenever that is. He said he would file paperwork Tuesday morning for what’s shaping up to be the most dramatic race for Miami mayor since… well, dare I say 1997?
That was the year of the first mano a mano mess between Suarez and Carollo, who’s been threatening to run for mayor for more than a year. Suarez technically won the race, until it was revealed by The Miami Herald that the election was tainted by absentee ballot fraud. Not only did a dead man vote, but people who lived in Westchester and Broward also voted in the city election. Eso no se puede hacer.
Ladra worked that election investigative story and remembers that Suarez was never officially tied to the AB shenanigans. Suarez just got swept up in the scandal when the court threw out all the ABs, effectively handing Carollo the seat.
And we all know how that turned out — with Carollo yelling at everybody and betraying his supposed allies. So, pretty much what he’s doing now, almost three decades later.
In addition to Carollo, Suarez and Diaz de la Portilla, none of whom have filed any paperwork as of Monday, there are 10 other candidates who have opened bank accounts and made their intentions official. They include Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins, former Miami Commissioner Ken Russell, former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez — who sued to restore the November election, which commissioners tried to change without voter approval — onetime congressional candidate Michael Hepburn, former Miami-Dade Community Council Member Christian Cevallos, perennial candidates Max Martinez and June Savage and first timers Alyssa Crocker, Ijamyn Joseph Gray and Linda Anderson, who doesn’t stand a chance as an official member of the Socialist Workers Party.
Read related: Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins could join Miami Mayor’s race
But he is also sorta running against his son. Baby X is termed out in November and, by all indications, was counting on a bonus year in office to increase his net worth with side gigs and fundraise for his next influencer trip to Dubai. The city is appealing a ruling Monday from a Miami-Dade judge who cancelled the cancellation of the November election for mayor and commissioner because the vote last month to move elections from odd to even years was unconstitutional.
In his announcement Monday, Xavier Suarez congratulated Emilio Gonzalez for initiating the lawsuit to challenge the city commission’s change (read: cancellation) of election by ordinance — and took some credit. “I was directly involved in the selection of counsel and contributed significantly to the strategic approach, specifically advising that only indispensable parties be named as defendants,” reads his statement. Ladra thinks he means Carollo, whose attorneys filed an amicus brief.
The senior Suarez also said that his political action committee would campaign against the proposed ballot referendum on lifetime term limits, even though there is a carve out for him and Carollo because they did not serve two full, regular terms. He said the ballot question is misleading. “The city’s charter already provides for term limitations,” Xavier said in his statement. “This proposal seeks to implement retroactive lifetime restrictions and unfairly imposes constraints on individuals who previously served when such limitations did not exist.”
Instead, his PAC will support putting two other questions on the ballot, which are the petitions that have been collected by Stronger Miami, a coalition of community groups including the One Grove Alliance: One would move the elections to even-numbered years by a public vote and the other would expand the commission from five to nine members.
Hey! Isn’t that Russell’s issue?
Read related: Petition aims to add Miami commission districts, change election to even years
Suarez didn’t throw his son completely under the bus, saying that the “city has made commendable progress in maintaining public order, stimulating significant private-sector economic growth, and reducing the millage rate.” But, apparently, not enough progress on property tax relief. X said he supported measures proposed by state legislators and dropped the names of State Representative Vickie Lopez and Florida House Speaker Daniel “Danny” Perez.
Suarez, 76, hasn’t held elected office since he left the county commission in 2020.
Now, all eyes are on Carollo, who lives for this kind of political drama. Will he make it official and file paperwork to set up the rematch nobody asked for — but everybody will watch? Or will he just scream from the dais and call everyone a traitor until the November ballot goes to print?
The deadline to qualify is Sept. 20.
¡Aguántate, Miami! Because the ghosts of elections past are running again.

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