It’s here. The Aug. 20 election, which includes many county races and some partisan primaries, ends today.
More than 200,000 people have already voted either by mail or absentee ballot or in early voting. There’s a slight edge among Democrats, but Republicans narrowed the gap during early voting and now there’s just about 5,000 ballots between them.
A county judge last week dismissed the defamation lawsuit filed by Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago against Actualidad Media Group for a Spanish-language morning radio broadcast where veteran journalist Roberto Rodriguez Tejera mentioned an investigation by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust into the mayor’s lack of truthfulness regarding his conflict of interests in the annexation of Little Gables.
The ruling is important because it sends a clear message to Lago that he cannot silence his critics.
On a short but heated exchange on Miami AM radio Wednesday morning, Trooper Joe Sanchez, a candidate for Miami-Dade sheriff, defended his record and rejected a one-on-one debate with attorney Ignacio “Iggy” Alvarez, a former Miami-Dade Police major and another candidate in the crowded GOP primary.
Sanchez, a former City of Miami commissioner who has been the Florida Highway Patrol’s pubic information officer for 15 years, called into Nelson Rubio’s En Directo show on America Radio WSUA to take issue with the characterization of his experience as mostly ticket-writing and protection of dignitaries, as he enjoys a hefty pension from the city.
La votación primaria de este mes para los votantes de Coral Gables incluye una pregunta sobre la anexión propuesta desde hace tiempo de anexar al vecindario de Little Gables a la ciudad, y la votación podría detener el proceso o ayudar a que avance.
Probablemente detenga el proceso. El avance o el retroceso depende de quién salga a votar.
The primary ballot this month for Coral Gables voters includes a non-binding question about the long proposed annexation of neighboring Little Gables into the city — and the vote could halt the process or help move it forward.
It’s probably going to halt the process. The up or down all depends on who comes out to vote.
Alian Collazo is not a wealthy guy. The Tampa transplant running for Florida House District 115 as a plantidate filed a financial disclosure where he reported earning $40,500 as a Florida State employee and said he had $1,354.91 in a checking account on June 12.
His only other assets were a $6,673.54 retirement account and a $528,465 house in Largo, which his mother gave him in 2021.
