{"id":433241,"date":"2026-10-20T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:40:09","slug":"north-miami-mayor-is-disqualified-from-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433241\/","title":{"rendered":"North Miami mayor is disqualified from ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit over cashier\u2019s checks has led to the disqualification of incumbent North Miami Mayor Alix Desulme from next month\u2019s election, effectively handing victory to his sole opponent.<\/p>\n<p>That opponent is George Morgan, who filed an emergency complaint in Miami-Dade County court on Oct. 8 alleging Desulme was ineligible to run because he paid his candidate qualifying fees with two cashier\u2019s checks from TD Bank rather than from his \u201ccandidate campaign account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor disputed the premise of the lawsuit, saying the check was drawn from his campaign account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/north-miami\/article317690421.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at MiamiHerald.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lawsuit over cashier\u2019s checks has led to the disqualification of incumbent North Miami Mayor Alix Desulme from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2715,225,227,226,114,115,99,109],"class_list":["post-433241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-elections","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433241","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=433241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}