A new law wipes out standing AB requests every two years

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It’s official.

As expected, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz is running for mayor of Sweetwater in the election this May. What else is he going to do?

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The first campaign finance reports for the special election to fill the vacancy in the city of Miami’s District 2 were filed Thursday — three days after absentee or mail-in ballots were sent to voters.

Former Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Martin Zilber, who has been pushed by Commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla and endorsed by Chairwoman Christine King this week, reported the most in contributions with $88,000. This includes a few bundles from real estate investors: $10,000 from Nir Shoshani, $8,000 from Alfredo Xiques, $5,000 from Jorge Luis Salazar and at least $4,00 from Jeffrey Hoyos.

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As predicted here on Political Cortadito, the Miami Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed former and disgraced judge Martin Zilber in the race to replace Ken Russell in Miami’s District 2. Some police union sources say the vote was cooked, under pressure from commissioners.

Pressure cooked.

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Miami-Dade Commissioners will have to re-vote on the zoning and land use changes for the abandoned Calusa golf course if developers still want to build 550 homes on the 168 acres. An appeals court on Wednesday upheld an earlier court’s invalidation of the 2021 approval because the county had not provide the required pubic notice.

And it is highly unlikely developers will be able to get the same density now that environmental studies have shown proof that the site is a breeding rookery for Florida’s endangered tri-colored heron — as well as a bunch of other birds — and a foraging site for the endangered bonneted bat.

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There are now only 13 candidates in the city of Miami special election to replace former Commissioner Ken Russell in District 2.

It’s only only because we started with 15.

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