One lifeline: Mayor Francis Suarez could veto

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AKA: No, no, yes, yes, yes, no, yes

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Less than 5% of the people who have been mailed absentee or vote-by-mail ballots in Miami-Dade have returned them in the two weeks since they were sent by the elections department, which seems super low.

And Democrats are voting at a higher rate than Republicans — almost 2 to 1.

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Former Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell — who is running to unseat U.S. Sen. Rick Scott — is certainly gaining momentum as the days tick off to the Nov. 5 election. She’s on a 75-city tour across the state of Florida — one stop for every time Rick Scott pled the fifth after overseeing one of the largest Medicare frauds in the history of this country — and within “striking distance” in recent polls.

Stopping in Tampa today, she out-raised the Republican millionaire in the last quarter by $1.7 million.

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Look in your mailbox. If you’re one of the people who get absentee or vote-by-mail ballots from the Miami-Dade Elections Department, you could be getting one this week. At least 260,000 went out Monday.

That’s less than half of the 530,000 ballots mailed out for the 2020 general in just the first mailing, according to figures provided by the department’s deputy director, Roberto Rodriguez, who said another 20K to 30K will be sent next. Even the August 2020 primary had more ABs sent to voters, with 332,000 going out in the first batch.

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In court papers filed last week for his divorce, former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — who was arrested a year ago on 12 felonies including bribery and money laundering — claims he earns only $4,000 a month as a political consultant and has more than $10,000 a month in expenses.

Which leads to two questions: (1) Who in the world would hire him to do any political consulting? and (2) How is he going to pay his criminal defense attorney?

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