She’s worked for different electeds at all levels — federal, state, county and city. So now, veteran GOP operative Alina Garcia — most recently the “senior political advisor” for Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo — wants to be elected herself. To the Florida Senate.
Garcia is waiting for the redistricting to shake out and will run in either District 37 or District 40 — which is vacated by Sen. Annette Taddeo‘s run for governor — wherever incumbent Sen. Ileana Garcia doesn’t run. She is going to wait for the other Garcia’s cue, but she already opened a political action committee called Florida Always First. In November.
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And now the commission may reward the driver with a new job
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But a $2.2 million mortgage on the property could complicate things
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The city of Miami has an employee flight problem. It begun two years ago when Commissioner Joe Carollo forced the resignation of former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez and, like a virus, has had several mutations and variants since.
New acting planning director Jeremy Gauger, who was the deputy and had taken over after Francisco Garcia left a year ago, left last month to become the director of building zoning and planning in the Village of Key Biscayne. Gauger worked in the private sector, at Arquitectonica, before that. FYI.
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The 2022 State of the State delivered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was more a continued tour for his national profile than a report on the Sunshine State. All state-of addresses are really craftily disguised campaign speeches. But DeSantis seemed adamant to let his White House ambitions show.
The guv said some form of the word free or freedom at least a dozen times. He took a gratuitous swipe at Dr. Anthony Fauci and called what we can assume is the Center for Disease Control a “coercive biomedical apparatus.”
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Florida Congressman Charlie Crist (D-St. Petersburgh), a turncoat who served as a Republican governor from 2007 to 2011, and Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Nikki Fried — the only statewide elected Democrat in the current administration — are leading the race for campaign contributions in the Democratic primary for governor, leaving Sen. Annette Taddeo in the dust.
Granted, Taddeo jumped into the contest in October, later than the other two (although she may have been asking for money already). But her presence hasn’t seemed to slow them down.
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