a debate last month<\/a>, the candidates talked about qualifications and issues.<\/p>\n“I have over 25 members of Congress that are supporting my campaign and I know I could bring those relationships to bear on behalf of this community if I\u2019m elected,” said Kendrick Meek Jr., an attorney and son of former Congressman Kendrick Meek.<\/p>\n
“Congress needs to force the president to stop that war, and reinvest those dollars in the retraining of employees,” said Jean Monestime, a long-time Miami-Dade commissioner.<\/p>\n
“We can\u2019t just talk about creating jobs without not addressing The elephant in the room, and once you get that job how do you survive here in South Florida?” said Jones.<\/p>\n
Gilbert touted his endorsement from Frederica Wilson.<\/p>\n
“I appreciate everyone\u2019s experience, but mine is one of absolute work and results and that is why I am endorsed Frederica Wilson,” he said.<\/p>\n
The other three candidates are Rudy Moise, a physician and retired Air Force colonel, attorney Roderick Vereen and Marshall Davis, long-time Managing Director of the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center.<\/p>\n
On the Republican side, Te Brown isn’t facing anyone.<\/p>\n
“Oliver Gilbert was seen as the hands-on favorite but many believe his best day was the first day of the campaign and sometimes name recognition and money helps to some extent, but then actually ends up being a hindrance,” NBC6 political analyst Alex Penelas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Congresswoman Frederica Wilson retiring, multiple candidates are running to represent Florida\u2019s District 24, which covers key neighborhoods…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[139277,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-374375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-decision-2026","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374375","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=374375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}