From state representative to attorney to the pols to Elections Supervisor? That’s the track former State Rep. JC Planas, who has become the premier elections attorney in town, hopes to take.

Planas, 52, presented paperwork Friday to run for Supervisor of Elections in 2024. A reformed Republican turned blue after Donald Trump won the White House in 2020, he also blames Trump’s attempt in 2020 to pervert the system for his interest in the position.

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After he won his fake “agritourism” item — which is really a free-for-all at the Redland for food trucks and wedding parties — Miami-Dade Commissioner Kionne McGhee had an impromptu rally at County Hall with his supporters and called other constituents liars and interlopers for opposing his measure.

“Some of the things you heard on the record here, they were not true,” he tells a press room full of people wearing red t-shirts to support his measure, riling them up for a photo op. “They were making up stuff. And I’m sitting there like, ‘Wow, like, you can really make up stuff.’”

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Beba Mann is going to have a cow.

After more than two years and a prolonged legal battle between the county and city of Miami, illegal plastic barricades placed suddenly and without a public process to restrict traffic in Silver Bluff were finally removed Wednesday morning.

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Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is a sore loser.

Three months after the April election, in which his chosen slate lost to two independent commission candidates, Lago is still being petty and vindictive with the victors. This week, he cropped them out of the photo he posted on Twitter from the Fourth of July celebration at The Biltmore Hotel.

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Change would also allow breweries and “fruit stand” like businesses

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Gov. Ron Desantis hasn’t yet called for a special election to replace State Rep. Juan Fernandez-Barquin, who he named Miami-Dade Clerk to replace the late, great Harvey Ruvin. But that doesn’t stop the wannabes from chomping at the bit.

Already two Cuban-American Republicans have said they will run for the seat, which stretches from Tamiami through Kendale Lakes, The Crossings and goes al the way to South Miami Heights: Miami Beach firefighter Christian Chavez and personal injury attorney Mike Redondo, who has come out swinging at the “radical left,” positioning himself as an ultra conservative and sounding like an echo of DeSantis.

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