{"id":375473,"date":"2026-08-19T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375473\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:24:15","slug":"paul-v-wilson-jr-wins-miami-gardens-area-2-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375473\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul V. Wilson Jr. wins Miami Gardens Area 2 council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paul<\/p>\n

Paul Wilson, son of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, launched his bid to run for a council seat in Miami Gardens on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.<\/p>\n

Carl Juste<\/p>\n

cjuste@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

Loud cheers were heard Tuesday night at Miami Gardens\u2019 Omega Activity Center when Paul V. Wilson Jr. walked in and hugged his mother, retiring U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, who served in elected office for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

Now, she gets to pass the baton to her son.<\/p>\n

Paul Wilson was elected to Seat 2 on the Miami Gardens City Council, serving neighborhoods including Norland and Andover. He\u2019ll serve a four-year term. Wilson won with about 55% of the vote against challengers Linnette Smith, with 23%, and Lavern V. Deer, with 22%.<\/p>\n

Like his mother, Wilson worked in education and has worked closely with the local 5,000 Role Models nonprofit<\/a>. But on Tuesday night, he said it was important for him to have his own identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to come into this as the son of a congresswoman,\u201d Wilson said after his win. \u201cI wanted to come in as Paul Wilson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson celebrated his victory with family, friends and a 12-person junkanoo band that danced around the event hall, a nod to the new commissioner\u2019s Bahamian roots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a labor of love,\u201d he said of his victory. \u201cThis was something that I was extremely passionate about, and this was something that I wanted to do my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the race for the council\u2019s Seat 4, Mykita Cherry-Prime and Rod Mack will head to a runoff since no candidate secured more than 50% of the vote. Cherry-Prime got about 46% of the vote, while Mack got about 40%. A third candidate, Angela Maria Wynter, earned about 14% of the vote.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Prime is a teacher in the Miami-Dade County Public School system and a business owner. Mack is a former University of Miami Hurricanes football player and a community advocate.<\/p>\n


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Michael Butler<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/p>\n

Michael Butler writes about minority business and trends that affect marginalized professionals in South Florida. As a business reporter for the Miami Herald, he tells inclusive stories that reflect South Florida\u2019s diversity. Just like Miami\u2019s diverse population, Butler, a Temple University graduate, has both local roots and a Panamanian heritage.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Wilson, son of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, launched his bid to run for a council seat in Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-375473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375473","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=375473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}