Some people in Miami-Dade County are so disappointed with Mayor Daniella Levine Cava that they want her out of office.
Mercy Perez is helping organize the effort to oust Levine Cava.
“The potholes, every day they get bigger,” Perez said. “The floods, the airport, the animal shelter, teachers need help, too; it’s very sad what is going on in Miami.”
It would involve a rare recall election, with only one question on the ballot asking voters whether Levine Cava should continue to serve as mayor or not.
Alex Otaola, who ran against Levine Cava for mayor and lost, is also in on the recall.
The mayor’s political advisor, Christian Ulvert, released a statement reading in part, “We are confident that this sham effort will be seen by voters as a political stunt led by a failed perennial candidate, who was resoundingly defeated last summer.”
Voters booted Carlos Alvarez out of the mayor’s office in a 2011 recall election, in part because of his supporting hundreds of millions in tax dollars to pay for the construction of loanDepot Park.
Commissioner Rene Garcia has heard there’s a Levine Cava recall effort underway.
“I too, have had some issues in reference to some of the park funding that we see, and I have been asking for information, that we are yet to receive that, so if I am one Commissioner that is struggling, there may be others that are doing the same,” he said.
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Organizers must get signatures from 4% of the registered voters in Miami-Dade County, about 61,000 signatures. If successful, a recall election must be held within 90 days of the petition being filed.
The supervisor of elections position became an elected spot, so for that reason, at Tuesday’s meeting, commissioners had to update the county code in order for recall elections to happen.