Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is responding to the attempt to recall her by some county residents.
Levine Cava was asked about the recall effort at an unrelated event on Thursday morning.
“I believe that I’ve served this community very well and I have confidence that the community will continue to support me,” she said.
Levine Cava, 70, was first elected in 2020 and won re-election last year with nearly 58% of the vote.
But critics like Mercy Perez, who is helping to organize the recall effort, have complaints about the job the mayor is doing.
“The potholes, every day they get bigger,” Perez told NBC6 earlier this week. “The floods, the airport, the animal shelter, teachers need help, too; it’s very sad what is going on in Miami.”
Levine Cava’s political advisor called it a “sham effort” and “political stunt” that’s being promoted by Alex Otaola, who ran against Levine Cava for mayor and lost.
For the recall to happen, organizers must get signatures from 4% of the registered voters in Miami-Dade County, or about 61,000 signatures. If successful, a recall election must be held within 90 days of the petition being filed.
A similar recall election in Miami-Dade back in 2011 was successful, with voters booting Carlos Alvarez out of the mayor’s office in part over his supporting the hundreds of millions in tax dollars to pay for the construction of loanDepot Park.