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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Vince Lago PAC has much more interest money

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After reporting month after month with no contributions for more than three years, a political action committee for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle reported raising $182,000 in the last quarter of 2023. Add that to the $239,374 reported in her campaign account and Ms KFR has almost half a million in the bank already.

What she doesn’t have is a race. Nobody has challenged our state attorney. At least not yet. And it would be a hard bid. Fernandez Rundle has proven to be invincible at the polls.

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A new political action committee in Coral Gables has formed with the intention of getting three charter amendments on the ballot.

According to it’s website, Accountable Coral Gables is promoting a change in the election date to November on even years — which there is already a petition being circulated for — the requirement of voter approval to increase electeds’ salaries in the future and the requirement of a four fifths vote on the commission to dip into the city’s reserve funds.

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Several political action committees had good quarters at the end of the year, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed in January, ending months of reporting zero contributions in some cases.

Citizens for Justice, a PAC for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, raised $182,000 between October and November. It hadn’t reported any financial activity since August of 2020. Stuart Miller, co-CEO at Lennar Corporation, gave the biggest gift: $100,000. Real estate developer Michael Wohl gave $20,000 and car mogul Alan Potamkin gave the PAC $25,000, which is more than double the $10K contributed by car mogul Norman Braman. Spice king Joseph Badia gave $10,000.

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He isn’t up for election this year, but Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s political action committee had a really good fundraising quarter at the end of the year, getting $202,066 in contributions in the three months through Dec. 31.

What for? Maybe to pay the legal fees for his multiple appeals, since the days of him abusing the city attorney’s office are apparently numbered.

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