{"id":37525,"date":"2025-11-07T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37525\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:56:10","slug":"laura-dominguez-alex-fernandez-back-monica-matteo-salinas-in-miami-beach-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37525\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Dominguez, Alex Fernandez back Monica Matteo-Salinas in Miami Beach runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After notching resounding re-election victories this week, Miami Beach Commissioners Laura Dominguez and Alex Fernandez are making clear their preferred candidate in the runoff for the panel\u2019s Group 1 seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dominguez and Fernandez are endorsing Monica Matteo-Salinas, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/myemail.constantcontact.com\/City-Commission-Recap-for-2024.html?aid=1Dm0p447AWQ&amp;soid=1011085968389\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Commission aide<\/a> to Fernandez and outgoing Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, the latter of whom Matteo-Salinas is running to succeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dominguez called Matteo-Salinas \u201cexactly the kind of voice we need on the City Commission: experienced, empathetic, and focused on the issues that matter most to our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMonica Matteo-Salinas has earned the trust of our community through her years of service, her compassion, and her results-driven approach,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cShe knows Miami Beach and our potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fernandez described Matteo-Salinas as \u201ccompassionate, capable, and committed to doing what\u2019s right for our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cShe understands the seriousness of government and the respect our residents deserve,\u201d he said. \u201cHaving worked directly with Monica, I\u2019ve seen firsthand the years she spent helping people navigate City Hall with compassion and integrity \u2014 fighting for families, schools, safety, and the character of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matteo-Salinas faces Republican lawyer Monique Pardo Pope for the City Commission\u2019s Group 1 seat. The two <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/763868-alex-fernandez-laura-dominguez-re-elected-in-miami-beach-as-third-commission-race-heads-to-runoff\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">earned the most votes<\/a> in Tuesday\u2019s General Election, but not a large enough share \u2014 more than 50% \u2014 to win outright.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matteo-Salinas received 23.2% of the vote, while Pardo Pope got 20.1%, edging out third-place candidate Brian Ehrlich by 0.84 percentage points. Notably, Pardo Pope outraised Matteo-Salinas by more than twofold, though roughly a third of her funds were self-given.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matteo-Salinas is running on a platform prioritizing traffic reduction, expanded transit options, strengthening neighborhood safety, improving schools and backing development that \u201cbenefits the entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said in a statement that she is \u201chonored\u201d to have Dominguez and Fernandez\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis campaign is about putting residents first and building a city government that listens, acts, and delivers for our community,\u201d she said. \u201cTogether, we can move Miami Beach forward with common sense, compassion, and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After notching resounding re-election victories this week, Miami Beach Commissioners Laura Dominguez and Alex Fernandez are making clear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2561,3675,28,30,29,16441,1642,23581,16443],"class_list":["post-37525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alex-fernandez","tag-election-2025","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-laura-dominguez","tag-miami-beach","tag-miami-beach-commission","tag-monica-matteo-salinas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37525","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=37525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}