Missed Opportunities In Miami-Dade County For Republicans – JP
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Doral, Florida – The general election this year was an almost complete sweep in Miami-Dade County for Republicans. President Trump, Senator Scott, all five county-wide candidates, almost all state legislators, and almost every other candidate won decisively.
President Trump won 55% of the county-wide vote, and so did four of the five Republican candidates for county-wide office. The fifth won 57% of the vote because he is a distinguished journalist and former Miami City Mayor. If those aren’t coat-tails, then what are?
The Republican Executive Committee’s sloth and inaction, however, prevented the party from maximizing its potential gains. For example, if: (1) during the first round of non-partisan elections in August, a stronger Republican challenger had forced the incumbent Democrat County Mayor into a runoff in the general election; and (2) if any Republican candidates had challenged the incumbent Democrat State’s Attorney and Public Defender; then all the challengers probably would have won.
Trump also won the districts of four incumbent Democrat County Commissioners, two of which were required to run for re-election this year. They both ran unopposed by any Republican challenger, one in Miami Beach and the other in South Dade. The Republican challenger in the South Dade district of the School Board received no support from the state or county party, even though Trump won this district. If Trump could win those districts, then why were there no Republican challengers, or challengers with full support? As a general rule, Republicans should nominate a challenger for every office, and let the voters decide.
This year’s general election confirmed the trend that started in the mid-term elections of 2022, that a majority of voters in this County are conservatives and will vote Republican, if given any Republican option at all. The real elections are the Republican primaries. These voters should be registered Republican, so that they can participate in primary elections.
This Republican victory also occurred even though the REC undermined its own party’s poll-watching efforts, surely at the behest of its Democrat overlords and paymasters. They denied poll-watching credentials to 26 veteran poll-watchers, and in protest another 12 resigned. This denial occurred without notice, hearing or any other due process The Republican poll-watching efforts were haphazard and conducted in disarray. In any event, Vote-By-Mail has created an end-run around the safeguards against election fraud erected by alert poll-watchers.
Newly-Elected Republican Executive Committee
These missed opportunities should encourage the newly-elected Committeemen and women of the REC to strive to do better by supporting the following reform proposals:
1. Compliance with the state statute requiring the REC to publish the list of its members with the Supervisor of Elections. The REC Board should also avoid interfering in elections to fill Committee positions and to elect Alternates. Otherwise they should ensure compliance with the rule of law generally in all things, including in financial reporting.
2. Expansion of the number of members of the REC, so that there will be one Committeeman and woman for each precinct, not based on artificial districts. The County has over 750 precincts, which cannot be covered by the current 130 or so Committeemen and women. Surely some 300 precincts can be covered with political activists newly-inspired by Trump’s victory. The REC needs more members for voter registration, door-knocking and poll-watching. These members should have full voting rights in the REC, and not be treated as second-class citizens.
3. Reduction of the terms of REC members to two years, like State Representatives, instead of the current four.
4. Publication in advance of an annual schedule of REC meetings.
5. Open meetings to the public, including media, for transparency.
6. Follow Robert’s Rules of Order. In addition, members of the REC Board should not walk out of meetings in order to undo a quorum once established, especially after the Chairman has called for unity.
7. Promotion of continuous voter-registration drives. The county has some 1,500,000 registered voters, and around 72% turned out to vote in this general election. Of those, 55% voted Republicans, but only around a third of the total are registered Republicans. Many NPA’s and even some Democrats should be contacted to re-register as Republicans.
8. Promotion of community engagement, such as veteran food drives and the like. A group of citizens living in a Sweetwater trailer park are being evicted and need to find new places to live.
9. Stay out of primary elections, with no endorsements or funding. Let voters decide.
10. Produce requested credentials for all volunteer poll-watchers on a timely basis.
These proposals are being pursued by the Committeemen and women of the newly-formed Election Integrity Caucus in the REC. This Caucus will not represent a majority, but it will be a force to be reckoned with.
Their first job will be to elect the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary members of the REC Board. They should avoid voting for mystery men, or for childless cat guys, with no investment in our future, as Vice President-elect Vance has warned. Instead, they should vote for candidates who will promote family values and make us proud of the GOP.
This is especially needed now after the last Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, who was a close ally of the REC Board, was forced to resign for participating in a threesome with his wife and another woman. The month before he resigned, he was the guest of honor at a local Republican club allied with the REC Board.
The newly-elected Committeemen and women should vote for an REC Board that we can all be proud of. Vote for men that you would not mind dating your daughter.