A lot of money has been spent in the quest to obtain the Miami Dade county commission seat once held by Katy Sorenson (who supports Daniella Levine Cava against the incumbent Lynda Bell), representing the South Dade district. We don't know how much, but certainly it has attracted the attention of special interests who would not like to see a socially responsible elected official on the county commission.
It is an interesting phenomenon, that special interests (defined as those who either do business with the county -- through clients, subsidiary businesses or indirectly -- or depend on regulations to conduct their business) would care so much about one county commission vote when they have a total of thirteen. The reasons are complex, including the fact that District 8 encompasses the one area of the county that has open space and farmland lusted by the purveyors of suburban sprawl.
In the twenty years I've been following Miami Dade County politics I've detected the same shift towards professionalism in the service of messaging and message framing. Lynda Bell found a single issue to attack Levine Cava: the Marlins Stadium deal that Levine Cava had nothing to do with and that she opposed, yet Bell hung her entire campaign on propagating that one lie.
Bell's strategy combines fear and anger along with the cynical conviction voters' attention spans are short as the movement of an eyeball.
It is hard to know who will vote in District 8 in next week's August election, but for her part Levine Cava has run a model campaign, and on election day all the hard work will prove out: all the people she talked to, friends and volunteers reached, the caring people of District 8, the single moms and independent voters will elect a new county commissioner; Daniella Levine Cava. Or will the lies and mudslinging that Bell spent a fortune to propagate, suppress the vote and keep citizens at home?
It is an interesting phenomenon, that special interests (defined as those who either do business with the county -- through clients, subsidiary businesses or indirectly -- or depend on regulations to conduct their business) would care so much about one county commission vote when they have a total of thirteen. The reasons are complex, including the fact that District 8 encompasses the one area of the county that has open space and farmland lusted by the purveyors of suburban sprawl.
In the twenty years I've been following Miami Dade County politics I've detected the same shift towards professionalism in the service of messaging and message framing. Lynda Bell found a single issue to attack Levine Cava: the Marlins Stadium deal that Levine Cava had nothing to do with and that she opposed, yet Bell hung her entire campaign on propagating that one lie.
Bell's strategy combines fear and anger along with the cynical conviction voters' attention spans are short as the movement of an eyeball.
It is hard to know who will vote in District 8 in next week's August election, but for her part Levine Cava has run a model campaign, and on election day all the hard work will prove out: all the people she talked to, friends and volunteers reached, the caring people of District 8, the single moms and independent voters will elect a new county commissioner; Daniella Levine Cava. Or will the lies and mudslinging that Bell spent a fortune to propagate, suppress the vote and keep citizens at home?
11 comments:
It appears from reviewing the campaign contributor lists that Lynda Bell's contributors consist of the "usual special interests, lobbyists and County vendors" and almost none are Dist 8 residents. Intelligent people hope the voters of Dist 8 can see through the lies and that they vote for Cava.
Bell will win
AB is already done! You lost! At least you have 4 more years of Bell to write about
The Real Slim
We hope Federal, State and County investigators will be reviewing every Absentee Ballot cast in the District 8 race. We hope investigators will be interviewing anyone involved in AB illegal activity. We hope any illegal activity will be discovered. We hope there are indictments.
I am looking forward to not writing if Bell wins. I couldn't write about a stupid district. I will write about nature and that crap and move to the progressive Telluride and chalk Miami up to a lost cause. My dream...
As a voter in the District, we have been bombarded with flyers and robo calls. The robo calls have been such a turn off to be honest. The majority of them have been from Cava's camp at a 2-1 ratio. They're all between 5-7 which I guess is when people are home but it's usually when it's a meal time or quiet time in my case. We've been surveyed to the point I'm just making stuff up because I'm annoyed. I know I cannot be the only one doing this so now I wouldn't believe a survey on this race at all! The flyers have all ended up in the garbage because they were coming in fast an furious one day after early voting started and my ballot was already cast. I hate this race, can't wait for next Wednesday and we'll see what happens.
Lynda Bell husband, Mark Bell is still being investigated for absentee voter fraud.
Everyone in my household voted for Daniella. The Bell machine keeps calling in with survey's for absentee ballot votes. Must not be looking good for Lynda.
Cantor thought he was going to win too. As a matter of fact several highly paid polls said he was 40% ahead. But, he got a royal butt kicking.
I bet the "Real Slim" is obese.
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