Miami-Dade County Commissioner Vicki Lopez\u2019s campaign to keep her District 5 seat now has support from a majority of the Miami Beach Commission.<\/p>\n
This week, Lopez\u2019s campaign announced endorsements from City Commissioners Laura Dominguez and Monica Matteo-Salinas.<\/p>\n
They join two other<\/a> Miami Beach officials \u2014 Commissioners Tanya Katzoff Bhatt and Alex Fernandez \u2014 backing Lopez.<\/p>\n Dominguez, who handily won re-election<\/a> alongside Fernandez in early November, called Lopez \u201ca proven partner for Miami Beach who understands what our residents need.\u201d<\/p>\n She cited Lopez\u2019s work as a state lawmaker on condo safety<\/a> and \u201creal solutions on housing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cVicki is thoughtful, collaborative, and knows how to turn priorities into action,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cI look forward to continuing to work together to keep Miami Beach safe, resilient, and strong.\u201d<\/p>\n Matteo-Salinas, a former City Hall aide who won her seat in December with 71% of the vote<\/a>, said Lopez has earned the trust of her constituents \u201cnot with words, but with action.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cVicki shows up prepared, principled, and genuinely committed to getting it right. She doesn\u2019t lead for the headlines. She leads for the people,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has been a true partner to our city by being accessible, collaborative, and never too busy to pick up the phone when our residents need answers. Vicki Lopez is the kind of leader our community deserves: experienced, accountable, and deeply rooted in the values that make this county a place we\u2019re proud to call home. I am proud to support her campaign to continue to lead as our county commissioner.\u201d<\/p>\n Lopez, in a statement, expressed gratitude for \u201cthe support of leaders who are working every day to serve Miami Beach residents.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur partnership with municipal leaders is essential to tackling the issues that matter most \u2014 from housing and safety to infrastructure and quality of life,\u201d she said. \u201cI look forward to continuing that work together.\u201d<\/p>\n Lopez, who was appointed<\/a> by her County Commission peers last year, raised nearly $589,000 last quarter<\/a>, far outpacing her lone challenger, Florida Highway Patrol trooper and former Miami Commissioner\u00a0Joe Sanchez.<\/p>\n Both Lopez and Sanchez are Republicans. Bhatt, Domiguez, Fernandez and Matteo-Salinas are all Democrats.<\/p>\n District 5 includes the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.<\/p>\n All County Commission candidates will be on the Aug. 18 Primary ballot, as those races and others in the county are technically nonpartisan.<\/p>\n If no candidate in a given contest receives more than 50% of the vote, the top two candidates will compete in a Nov. 3 runoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade County Commissioner Vicki Lopez\u2019s campaign to keep her District 5 seat now has support from a majority…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8184,109551,123,1642,125,124,1064,24953,373,24954,16443,11674],"class_list":["post-250242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-election-2026","tag-luara-dominguez","tag-miami","tag-miami-beach","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-miami-dade-commission","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-miami-dade-county-commission","tag-monica-matteo-salinas","tag-vicki-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}