Eenie, meenie, miny, moe.
A recent poll suggests Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava could just edge out Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar in 2026. But wait, isn’t she going to run for governor?
Levine Cava, who is termed out in 2028, hasn’t said a peep about either, but people keep imagining her into these races because she’s probably the strongest Democrat in the state, getting re-elected last year against the Trump train that ran over Miami. Her political consultant, Christian Ulvert, is getting bored of telling people she is not running for higher office.
At least not yet.
“She was honored to be re-elected by nearly 60% of Miami-Dade voters and she’s going to do the important work as the mayor,” Ulvert told Political Cortadito.
“She is not going to be on the ballot in 2026.”
Besides, he already has another candidate in the CD-27 race. Which may explain his tweet Monday making it clear: “No! Not happening.”
So, this is just somebody’s ultimate fantasy.
Salazar, who has become increasingly unpopular because of her blatant lies and alignment with Donald Trump‘s cruel immigration policies, which impact her constituency big time, is vulnerable. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has put her on the list of flippable Republican-held seats and they’re desperately searching for their Holy Grail.
The poll by Kissimmee-based Kaplan Strategies — a one-stop shop for “all your political communication needs” — shows La Alcaldesa with a 2 point lead over Salazar. And while that is within the 3-point margin of error, it is still closer than the other candidates who have already announced their candidacy in the Democratic Primary next August (except for Robin Peguero, who announced most recently).
The bigger picture that has local Dems smiling: Salazar doesn’t get more than 45% against anybody.
The survey of 804 likely general election voters in late July shows that “if the election were today,” former Key Biscayne Mayor Mike Davey would get 38%, environmental entrepreneur Richard Lamondin (Ulvert’s guy) would get 34% and accountant Alexander Fornino, a progressive accountant Ladra only heard of through this poll, would get a whopping 35%.
Levine Cava, meanwhile, got 44% and pushed Salazar down from 45 to 42%. The undecideds on that head-to-head were lower, also, which is natural since La Alcaldesa has more name recognition across the whole district, which includes parts of Miami, Coral Gables, Cutler Bay, Key Biscayne, Pinecrest, North Bay Village, South Miami, West Miami and several areas in the unincorporated Miami-Dade.

Davey’s tiny lead among the other candidates is probably because he ran in the last Democratic primary, losing to former School Board Member Lucia Baez-Geller (54%-46%),who also was not in the poll. But one would think Davey would do a lot better than just a few points above Fornino and Lamondin, who are basically unknowns.
The poll seems to indicate that voters could support anybody against Salazar, who has coming under fire in recent months for taking credit for extending TPS to some immigrants, when it was a judge in California who did that, defending the conditions at Alligator Alcatraz — she sat on a bed and it was soft! — and her ill-named Dignity Act proposal, which only applies to some immigrants who want want to do the backbreaking, menial jobs nobody else wants without opening up any benefits or giving them any chance to become legal residents or citizens. It’s
Salazar beat Baez-Geller last November by more than 20 points, riding on Trump’s coattails. Since then, two special elections in Florida April 1 show that those coattails are shorter. Republicans still won in districts 1 and 6, but their margins were smaller than Trump’s. Former state CFO Jimmy Patronis beat Democrat Gay Valimont to replace the embarassment that is Matt Gaetz, and gambling executive and former State Sen. Randy Fine beat Democrat Josh Weil for the seat vacated by Mike Waltz when he became Trump’s national security advisor.
Both Valimont and Weil outspent their GOP opponents, but neither have the same name recognition as Levine Cava, who is so well known she is contemplating a statewide race.
A week after the special elections, the DCCC put CD 27 into their “districts in play” list, which maps 35 competitive Republican-held seats they think could be flipped next year.
“This result suggests a potential battleground district heading into 2026,” Kaplan Strategies principal Doug Kaplan wrote in his poll message, according to Florida Politics, which broke the story about the survey Monday.
It’s not entirely unexpected. Levine Cava’s Tallahassee dreams may have been dashed by David Jolly, the former GOP Congressman who turned blue and is tearing across the state to run for governor next year. On Tuesday, Jolly’s campaign announced the endorsements from 60 current and former Democrat electeds, including a ton of La Alcaldesa’s friends: State Rep. Kevin Chamblis, former Senator Dave Aronberg, who ran for state attorney in Palm Bach, and former state reps Steve Geller, who also served as a senator and Broward County mayor, Dan Gelber, who was also Miami Beach mayor, Annie Betancourt, Elaine Bloom, Joe Geller, a former North Bay Village mayor now on the Miami-Dade School Board, Cindy Lerner, who was mayor of Pinecrest, and Juan-Carlos “JC” Planas, who ran for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections last year but lost.
Aronberg, Gelber, Lerner and Planas all have worked with Ulvert. It might be awkward at the Christmas party if La Alcaldesa jumped in the governor’s race now, after her pals have committed to Jolly.
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There are four public budget town halls this week
It’s budget season, and you know what that means: the spin cycle is on high.
Facing a gaping $402 million hole in the county coffers, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is out here trying to sell her $12.9 billion budget for 2025-26 as “fair and balanced.” But it looks more like it’s failing and bruised.
The mayor has taken to the airwaves and went on WPLG Local 10’s This Week in South Florida Sunday and has had two community meetings so far to defend the 2025 budget. Saturday’s community meeting in at the North Dade Regional Library was standing room only.
There are four more this week where residents are encouraged to go and share their concerns and priorities. The next one is tonight at 6 p.m. at Westchester Regional Library, 9445 Coral Way.
There’s another town hall at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Arcola Lakes Senior Center, 8401 NW 14th Ave., 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Dennis Moss Center, 10950 SW 211 Street and 6 p.m. Thursday at Oak Grove Park, 690 Ne 159th Street.
More information on the proposed budget can be found on the county’s website here.
Packed house at the Miami-Dade budget town hall Saturday at the North Dade Regional Library.
Levine Cava says her budget protects “core services” like garbage pickup and transit. Because, apparently, if your bus still shows up and your trash still disappears, you should just shut up and pay the extra taxes and fees.
And there are plenty of those. It will cot 50 cents more to ride the bus or train. Gas tax goes up 2 cents a gallon. And we will now have to pay a brand-new $5 “get-in-the-park” fee — but don’t expect a lifeguard at the pool. We can’t afford those.
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The county is also shutting down two senior centers and ending some home-delivered meals to the abuelos and abuelas. And it may as well be shutting down some non-profit organizations with up to $40 million in cuts to grants.
Meanwhile, the county has committed $46 million to the FIFA World Cup, which Levine Cava said is an “obligation” once the bid was awarded, which is before her time. And she added that the millions are not going to the billionaire organization itself. The funds go to “local leaders” to raise money to put together programming, she told the Sunday show’s host Glenna Milberg. Was she talking about Rodney Barreto? And does this make it better, or worse?
Also, she did warn us that the allocation could mean cuts in services.
Commissioner Kionne McGhee has asked for his colleagues to support refunding the gift and putting that money into the non-profits whose grant funds have been cut. But Levine Cava suggested on This Week in South Florida that only the last allocated $10.5 million can be withdrawn. How come we are still committed to the $25 million in in-kind services?
La Alcaldesa insists the cuts in the budget are necessary, mostly blaming a state-mandated boogeyman: Amendment 10, which created five new constitutional offices that the county now has to fund — to the tune of nearly half the budget gap. The spotlight is on newly-elected Sheriff Rosanna “Rosie” Cordero-Stutz, who wants $40 million more than the mayor gave her. That’s a tenth of the entire deficit. If she doesn’t get it, she says, the mayor and commission are “defunding the police.”
Levine Cava has said that she has increased police funding each year, and that it’s going up almost 9% this year. That’s not defunding. That’s reinvesting in flashbang grenades and training simulators and expensive software contracts and overtime.
Still, commissioners aren’t all on board with the spending plan. Some even voted for the flat tax rate the first round thinking they can lower it after the public hearings. They can’t raise it, but most people will pay higher taxes because their property values rose.
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Commissioners Roberto Gonzalez, Juan Carlos “JC” Bermudez, Raquel Regalado and newly-appointed District 6 Commissioner Natalie Milian Orbis were particularly concerned that the cuts are not being made in the right places. Regalado has called for a special meeting to go “line by line” through the budget to find efficiencies and waste. Like with an X-acto.
Because when you add up the slight raise in property tax with the other fees and the fare hikes, everyday working people are the ones who are going to feel the squeeze.
The commission will vote on the final budget in September. Between now and then, the public has those four community meetings this week and two public hearings at County Hall Sept. 4 and Sept. 18 before the commission makes a final decision. There will also be a Committee of the Whole scheduled at 9:30 a.m. for commissioners to discuss the budget and make changes.
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Opinion By Michael Rosenberg, co-founder of the Pets’ Trust
I went to the Miami-Dade animal shelter in Medley Sunday, to observe the protest, not to participate. I wanted to see what the message was, what it is the protesters wanted.
The animal shelter at Medley holds a special place for me. As a human, I lived in a dog cage in that building for three days in October of 2012. Yes, it was hot, old and decrepit, and a place where 60 to 80 mostly healthy animals were killed every day from 1970 to 2013  to make space for the 100 or so dogs brought to the shelter each day, on average. The policy from 1970 (as far as I can go back) to 2013 was to kill for space.
One hundred animals would be surrendered each day, and 60 to 80 were killed to make space. Every day.
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The Pets’ Trust was founded to try to stop that. But while the community overwhelmingly supported the Pets’ Trust plan with their votes, elected officials did not honor those votes. If you really want to be angry, watch the movie to learn more about the Pets’ Trust and what our elected officials didn’t do: Political Animals…The Story of the Pets’ Trust.
Flash forward to 2025, and while the killing has dramatically decreased (in the shelter), the intake of animals stays the same. Many animals are still turned away. The new shelter that was built in 2015 is beyond capacity, so the dungeons of Medley were reopened to create more space.
No one wanted to open this old draconian shelter, but as the new shelter simply could not hold all of the animals, the Medley shelter was brought back to its awful life. There was simply no place to keep this overflow of continued incoming animals and killing for space is not an option anymore.
Of course no one likes the Medley shelter. It’s natural to want to protest the conditions there. The good news is this Medley shelter is coming down and a brand new 25,000 square foot, very modern facility will be built in South Dade. It will take time to build it, but at least it is coming.
However, warehousing animals is not the solution and this is where the majority of the money is going towards. In the past 12 years MDAS has received $327 million dollars. The County plan spent $200 million dollars more than what had been their previous average budget from 2012 back and the chart shows you what they have to show for it. Intake numbers are the same as the early 2000’s when the average budget was $10 million, and today it’s actually worse because more and more animals are being turned away and the shelter is over double its capacity.

Most animals come in healthy and some start to become sick from contagious diseases, stress and become unadoptable which can lead to being euthanized. The adoption rate has not changed in the past 12 years and spay/neuter surgeries are far behind.
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It’s wonderful that the protesters want to keep the plight of our animals in the forefront of public attention, but signs calling this a death camp, a killing shelter, or that Miami-Dade Animal Services Director Annette Jose is lying, are not the correct message.  The message for what was needed and still is needed is the message of the Pets’ Trust Plan, the overpopulation problem that is the cause of there being so many animals — half a million cats on the streets for example — is an extensive spay/neuter program doing at least four times what we are doing now.   We need to do over 100,000 of these surgeries a year, not 25,000…..or we’ll never get ahead of the problem and sadly, the new shelter will be full on the day it opens.
If I participated in this protest, my sign would have been…..More Surgeries Now!
Again, I thank the protesters for wanting to make conditions better, but while the new animal shelter will be a better place to live, it will not solve the animal overpopulation problem which is the root of all of this mess we are in.
Michael Rosenberg is a tireless advocate for animals and humans in Miami-Dade and beyond. Rosenberg is co-founder of the Pets’ Trust Initiative, which got 65% of voters to agree in 2012 on a massive spay/neuter plan to help keep the population of strays down. He is also the longtime president of the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations.
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It shouldn’t take a dead dog to get someone to pay attention to the horrible conditions at the Miami-Dade animal shelter.
But that’s what happened.
A growing pack of protestors gathered again for the second Sunday in a row outside Miami-Dade Animal Services’ overflow facility to demand answers — and justice — for the animals allegedly suffering and dying under the county’s so-called care.
They came armed with signs, chants and fury. No political group, no formal organization, no paid advocacy. Just plain old human outrage — the kind that bubbles up when a terrier mix named Rocky dies of heatstroke in his kennel and nobody seems to be held responsible.
“These dogs can’t speak,” Nicolette Acosta, one of the protesters, told WSVN 7 News. “We’re here to do just that, to provide that voice for them, and I don’t care how long it takes.”
Ladra kinda loves her.
Even before Rocky died, actually since at least 2023, protesters had been decrying the conditions at animal services and the use of the overflow shelter that was the grossly “sick” building, the “house of horrors” for both the animals and staff, that had to be replaced pronto with the new $15 million building in Doral. It was too terrible to use for animals then, but it’s okay for the dogs now that they’ve run out of space at the new, shiny shelter.
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Recent horror stories include a horrible outbreak of Streptococcus equi zooepidemicus, a bacterial infection that can cause hemorrhagic pneumonia in dogs and potentially affect immunocompromised people. Because the shelter was at double capacity, the disease spread faster. 
To address the situation, the shelter is urging the public to adopt or foster animals to reduce overcrowding and is temporarily suspending some services, like the on-site wellness clinic and stray animal pick-ups. But some people who have adopted or fostered dogs have had to bring them back after they infected their pets at home, one activist said.
There is no enrichment programming for the animals while they stay at Camp Death. In fact, sometimes they are barely walked. The county budgets for 280 employees at Animal Services, but they only have 255 currently working there. So, not enough dog walkers.
Acosta calls the situation at the shelter a “multi-system failure.” She calls out the county for its botched response to a deadly bacterial outbreak, its lack of transparency, and its absolutely bonkers dependence on community-donated fans to keep the animals cool.
Fans. In Miami. In July.
Ladra would laugh if it weren’t so freaking sad.
“We should not have to be scrambling as a community to donate fans,” Acosta said Sunday, demanding a full investigation into the conditions at the Medley facility — one with “actual measurable numbers and outcomes.”
You know, like a grown-up audit.
Miami-Dade County spends millions on animal services, a department that many activists and animal lovers say is broken and backwards. The budget is increasing to $45 million this year from $43 million last year. The county is in the process of developing a new $11.5 million animal shelter in South Dade to replace the current overflow shelter in Medley, which will become a residential development featuring at least 100 income-restricted apartments.
All with A/C, Ladra bets.
But that facility — which got a request for $1.5 million in state funds from Sen. Ileana Garcia — still needs final approvals and won’t be completed until the fall of 2027, at the earliest.
Update: Rita Schwartz, co-founder of the Pets’ Trust Initiate — a non-binding referendum passed by 65% of the voters in 2012 — said the money could be better spent.
“Right now, all the money is going towards the two overcrowded shelters and frustrated employees that can’t possibly take care of all these animals humanely,” Schwartz told Political Cortadito. “They are cramped in small cages and not nearly walked enough. They are not addressing the root of the problem so tax payers pay millions of dollars more each year for the same if not worse results. Warehousing the animals is not the solution.
“The Pets’ Trust plan would provide the much-needed services to get ahead of the overpopulation crisis. Right now, it’s impossible for the public to get an appointment to spay/neuter their pets and not enough resources for the following services.”
At Sunday’s protest, State Rep. Fabian Basabe said that more has to be done. “I didn’t come here as a politician. I came here as a neighbor, a father, an animal lover,” said Basabe, who this year c0-introduced Dexter’s Law, which would strengthen sentences for animal cruelty and create an online database of those found guilty of it.
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“What’s happening in this facility is heartbreaking and unacceptable,” Basabe told the protesters, though they know it. “Taxpayer funds are being mismanaged,” he said.
“Daniella Levine Cava has had years to fix this,” he said, adding that the Miami-Dade mayor has gotten tons of emails and phone calls about this. He likens it to the cruelty at the Miami Seaquarium, where she finally acted last year, after public outcry, to evict the operators who had been mistreating the animals.
“That’s not leadership. That’s crisis control,” Basabe said. “If she truly cared about animal welfare, these conditions would never have been allowed in the first place.”
He also told the protesters that he was going to request a review of the shelter by the Florida Department of Agriculture and an investigation into where the funding resources are going.
One of the points that protesters make is that the department is top heavy with bloated salaries. The Animal Services director makes more than $200,000 a year and there are four assistant directors.
No wonder there’s no money for fans.
The department issued a canned statement last week: “We understand the community’s concerns, and we share the same goal: to provide every animal with the best possible care and a chance at a loving home.”
Meanwhile, however, they may get sick. Or die from the heat.
This story has been updated to include a comment from Rita Schwartz, co-founder of the Pet’s Trust.
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Photos were posted on social media over the weekend of several ambulances taking people to the hospital from Alligator Alcatraz, that makeshift prison built in eight days with no oversight and even less compassion on an abandoned air strip in a flood prone area in the middle of the Everglades just last month.
One was spotted leaving at 3:37 p.m. Saturday and another one at 8:30 p.m. Two were seen leaving on Friday, at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. And two others at 6:10 p.m. and just before midnight on Thursday.
Some detainees are in their 11th day of a hunger strike to denounce the conditions, so that may explain some of the hospitalizations.
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But at least six people had been reportedly transferred from the facility before the hunger strike began. That means at least 12 people — it’s probably more — either sick or injured, have been rushed to the hospital more than 40 miles away from the gulag in the middle of the swamp, built atop the old Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
And the Miami-Dade Department of Health is… ¿Dónde está? Playing hide and seek? Practicing yoga? Trying not to make eye contact?
Because someone should be asking very loudly:

Who is monitoring the health and safety standards at Alligator Alcatraz?
Is there even a doctor on site? A nurse? A thermometer?
Where are the medical records for these transfers?
Has anyone at DOH even stepped foot inside this place?

Let’s not forget: this facility was thrown together like a last-minute science fair project — only the prize was millions in taxpayer dollars wasted and the experiment is on actual people. The budget is $450 million — $290 mil of which has already gone to vendors with no open competitive system, no transparency (more on that later) — so what have they spent on healthcare?
According to a bunch of contacts published by the Miami Herald, CDR Healthcare Inc. was hired to build, staff and maintain a medical unit where they would administer drug tests and TB tests, for $17.5 million. Where is that money really being spent?
Immigrant advocates have repeatedly denounced the “dangerous and unlawful conditions” inside the state-managed immigration detention camp which they medical experts say could lead to some serious health risks for the hundreds of detainees who are being held there in group cages. Phone calls with detainees and their families have brought horror stories to light.
Toilets that don’t flush. Limited drinking water. Meals with bugs or maggots. Giant mosquitos that could be carrying illnesses. Access to showers once a week. Temperatures that drop to freezing cold from sweltering hot and back again, regularly.

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Because of course she is.
Kristen Rosen Gonzalez — Miami Beach’s drama queen of dais debates, email blasts and adult novelty props — announced in April that she is running for mayor.
Even before she filed paperwork, Commissioner Rosen Gonzalez had told many friends and supporters she planned to unseat Mayor Steven Meiner — most famously known for declaring war on Spring Break — who hasn’t filed for reelection yet but is widely expected to. It would be his second two-year term. If he survives this campaign.
“Miami Beach deserves a mayor who listens to every resident, protects our neighborhoods, and leads with transparency, innovation, and results,” Rosen Gonzalez says on her website and in her social media announcements. “I’ve always been the people’s commissioner, and now it’s time for me to be the people’s mayor.”
Rosen Gonzalez wants people to know she’s matured.
After her controversial first commission term marked by sexual harassment complaints that she made against a commission candidate who she said exposed himself and five ethics complaints (cleared, but still), and a failed run for Congress, Rosen Gonzalez came back rebranded as “Kristen 2.0.” Now she’s aiming for the mayor’s seat, possibly as “Kristen 3.0,” but still with the same flair for political rebellion that has defined her career.
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Like her or not, there’s no denying Rosen Gonzalez is a fighter.
She has made a name for herself by waving the preservation flag, clashing with developers (until she doesn’t), advocating for the little people and throwing elbows at just about everyone on the dais. She’s a tenured professor at Miami Dade College, but she’s schooled plenty of her colleagues in the art of political combat — including former Mayor Dan Gelber, whom she once compared to Vladimir Putin in a now-deleted post she apologized for.
Most recently, she has traded jabs with Commissioner David Suarez, an apparent prude who took offense when Rosen Gonzalez  pulled out a pink prop in defense of a “female wellness” shop on Lincoln Road. Suarez sent out a pearl-clutching email calling it a sex shop. Kristen hit back with her own email, accusing him of misinformation and shaming female empowerment.
She’s not wrong. You go girl!
But that’s Rosen Gonzalez in a nutshell: polarizing, provocative — and persistent.
This wouldn’t be the first time she’s run against Meiner. They faced each other in a commission race in 2019 — after Rosen Gonzalez came back from a failed congressional bid the year before, calling herself Kristen 2.0 — and Meiner, who was considered the underdog, won 54% to 46% in the runoff. Rosen Gonzalez did end up coming back as a commissioner in 2021, but is termed out this year.
That may be the real reason she is running. It’s not like there’s a ton of political contrast. Rosen Gonzalez, 51, and Meiner, 54, used to be pals. She supported his crackdown on Spring Break, the arrests of homeless sleeping outdoors and the support for the State of Israel. Until the O Cinema controversy earlier this year.
After the theater showed the Oscar-winning documentary about the West Bank, “No Other Land,” which some view as critical of Israel, Meiner wanted to defund and evict O Cinema from their city owned space  The mayor deemed the film “hateful propaganda” and said he worried about the safety of residents if protests were to erupt. He had also asked the city last year to clamp down on pro-Palestine protesters and even tried to censor people at city commission meetings.
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Rosen Gonzalez spoke publicly and loudly against the censorship and the mayor ended up withdrawing his plan to evict the cinema after a lot of public backlash. Seeing an opportunity to show a clear difference between them, Kristen 3.0 is making her commitment to free speech part of her campaign.
She’s also running on a familiar “residents first” message, promising to preserve historic districts, support the police, and boost tourism marketing to keep the city’s economy healthy. She says she wants to focus on serious policy, not theatrics. Which is ironic coming from a walking, talking telenovela.
Voters can hear directly from her about her platform at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club meeting at 9 a.m. this, um, Tuesday, at Lincoln Eatery, 723 N. Lincoln Ln. It may also be live streamed on Facebook.
While some have been critical of her flip-flopping on the rezoning deal at the site of the old Deauville Hotel, Rosen Gonzalez calls it proof that she can be pragmatic and is not against all development. Just when it’s out of scale or character. She also claims that her push back is what led to a better deal.
And people still love her. A May poll, reportedly independent and done by MDW Communications (Michael Worley) showed that she led Meiner by six points among 402 voters, 35% to 29%. The rest of the voters were undecided, so if they split the same way, she’s winning.
The poll did not include a third candidate in the Beach mayoral race, political newcomer Victor Rosario, because everyone is looking at this as a cage match between Rosen Gonzalez and Meiner. Unless anybody else qualifies before the Sept. 20 deadline.

Seven candidates have already filed paperwork to replace Rosen Gonzalez in the Group 1 seat: Daniel Ciraldo, Brian Ehrlich, Matthew Gultinoff, Omar Jimenez, Monroe Mann, Monica Matteo-Salinas and Monique Pardo Pope.
Incumbents Laura Dominguez and Alex Fernandez may face challengers in Robert Novo III and Luidgi Mary, respectively. Voters will know for sure who’s on the ballot after Sept. 20.

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