No Ballots, Big Power as Five Miami Pols Snag County Seats
Five Miami‐Dade County Commission candidates were declared winners after qualifying closed, leaving key seats filled without a vote and a $13B budget at stake.
On Tuesday, five Miami-Dade County Commission seats were locked in without a single vote cast after qualifying closed at noon. The unopposed winners will step onto a board that signs off on roughly a $13 billion annual budget and shapes everyday services from transit to parks and trash collection.
The automatically elected candidates are Steve Gallon III (District 1), Anthony Rodriguez (District 10), Juan Carlos “JC” Bermudez (District 12), Natalie Milian Orbis (District 6) and Micky Steinberg (District 4), as reported by WLRN . …
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