Is a new ghost candidate running for Miami-Dade commission in District 11?

Remember the ghost candidate that ran in the state senate race in 2020 and ruined it for former Democrat Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, rigging the election that unseated him and ushered Republican Ileana Garcia into office? Well, we may have more of those this year.

Ladra thinks she may have found a spoiler candidate running for Miami-Dade County Commission: Claudia Rainville, who qualified at almost the last minute to run in District 11 against the appointed incumbent commissioner, Roberto Gonzalez, and high school teacher Bryan Paz-Hernandez, who has been campaigning since February and was once president of the West Dade Democratic Club, but is running now as an NPA.

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