Easy enough, explained via pic. Let it not be said we don’t help out the county with some free ad space, for a good cause.
Betbar’s note: Is the county breaking down the door to advertise on this site?
Editor’s note: Shut it Bets!
Archive for: ‘November 2013’
Space Invader over Calle Ocho
Photo by Frank M.
SunPost: Mayor Elected, Commission Races Go To RunOff
By: Frank Maradiaga for Miami SunPost
BEACH VOTERS READY FOR CHANGE AS LEVINE IS ELECTED NEW MAYOR LATE FRIDAY.
Late on Tuesday night, Roger Abramson worked the P-lot in his usual gregarious manner. He had crossed the street from the entrance to the Botanical Garden,where a hoard of sign holders stood, and was the first person voters came in contact with as they exited their cars and walked towards the polling station. Abramson rushed to get a greeting out, introduce himself as a candidate for Group 3, and ask for support -all before the voter walked off the narrow slab of sidewalk. To those who would accept it, he handed them a postcard that encapsulated his candidacy; it came with a mint.
Some wouldn’t even break their stride as Abramson came up to them for a word, but would attempt to exchange pleasantries while on the move.
“Good luck” one man said over his shoulder while he quickly crossed the street.
Another man didn’t even bother to fake interest when Abramson approached him, “they gave me a list,” he said while patting his shirt’s pocket.
“They gave me a list?” Abramson murmured to himself, “what does that even mean?”
That man walked across the street and kissed Abramson’s rival, Joy Malakoff. It made sense now.
It was a couple of hours before the polls closed and the votes were trickling in at City Hall and the Botanical Gardens; the demonstration-size crowd were mostly campaign workers; a cub reporter the Miami Herald sent to get color was struggling to find an actual voter to speak with. Still candidates like Abramson, Dave Crystal, Michael Greico, Michael Gongora, and Joy Malakoff prowled the labyrinth of sign holders for the chance to change one more mind, one more vote that could help secure a ticket to the second round, the probable run-off in two weeks. With so many candidates, it was almost a sure thing.
A woman walked out dejected when she didn’t quite make the 7:00 PM cut off. Before a single vote had been counted, Greico told her she’d have another shot in two weeks.
And she will.
Finish reading at Miami SunPost
Miami Beach Election results in charts
How about that semi-live blog post last night? (What do you mean you were reading another site?) It was totally done on the road, and mainly from a smart phone. Amazing what kind of disasters happen when one is avoiding cars while monitoring numbers and chatter on a small screen.
Anyone can report numbers, how many can avoid death while doing it?
Take that all your live bloggers with your safe newsrooms, proper equipment, and no possibility of getting run over by speeding vehicles.
Now that we’re indoors- how about some charts?
The Mayor’s race was the only one that received a winner; Millionaire Businessman Philip Levine can add a new title to his repertoire. By the narrowest of margins, it appears he avoided a run off. Levine pulled in 50.48%, and is poised to be the next Mayor of Miami Beach. His chief rival Commissioner Michael Gongora pulled in 36.43%, and conceded last night.
Emergency Work calls…Back to this post in a bit
The semi-live blog of election results.
Editors note: posts are being made from a cell phone with a dying battery, mostly on the road.
7:00 pm A group of sign holders at the botanical gardens sight take off like if that bird from the Flintstones just had his tail pulled.
Candidates follow suit. Gongora, Malakoff, Greigco, Abramson all hang it up for the night.
A group of young males wearing red ‘Firefighters of Miami Beach shirts’ walk with purpose away from the polling place. One of them hisses and declares: ”I wouldnt vote for any of them.”
They disappear off into the distance before we can snap a pic.
The group was holding signs for thr incumbents, but it sounded like the venom was directed to everyone.
7:04 The majority are gone. From what once was a solid brush of sign holders – where voters had to navigate a labyrinth of sign holders just to get by- is now a loose collection of stray people resembling in the middle loitering than campaigning.
7:07 Everyone is gone, better leave than get a ticket.
7:55.Still only have the absentee numbers, so here we go:
Mayor race:
Philip Levine 52.44%
Michael Gongora 36.37%
Steve Berke 9.09%
Raphael Herman 1.11%
2971 voted early in Miami Beach; interactive graphs.
Nearly three thousand residents have already voted in Miami Beach. A year removed from a slate of corruption charges that rocked city hall and it’s police department, three incumbents seek to retain their place on the dais.
It remains to be seen if the voters, egged on by challengers, give the ax to the incumbents. Or if this election really was a referendum of the powers that be.
According to figures from the county, 2971 Total people voted early In Miami Beach.
Here is an interactive graph of the daily totals in both Miami Beach City Hall (MB C.H. #s) and North Shore (N.S. #s)
Broken down by voting site:
1795 At Miami Beach City Hall.
1176 At North Shore Branch Library.
Election day is Tuesday.
Charlie Crist announces his run on Facebook with a picture of his campaign sign.
It was fairly official months ago even without the formality of an announcement, but over the weekend Charlie Crist made it (kinda?) official when he posted on Facebook a picture of his campaign sign for the 2014 gubernatorial run. Just Days before he officially staged a rally. Which incidentally is later today.
“The people’s Governor” makes up the majority of the sign with a sunrise pictured above it. Crist’s name appears only by way of a URL to his website.
More telling is the official campaigning disclosure on the bottom of the sign: “Political advertisement paid for and approved by Charlie Crist, Democrat, for Governor.”
So much for waiting for the rally. It was set for 9:30 this morning at Whitted Park in Crist-Stronghold St. Pete.
It’s not the first time Crist makes a big announcement through social media. When he officially changed his political party registration, he posted up a picture of him and his wife accompanied by the official document. What a romantic!
He was at a White House reception with the newly re-elected Barack Obama.
An embrace with Obama at a stimulus event was campaign fodder during Crist’s failed senatorial run. He didn’t make it out of the Republican Primary, defeated by the Tea-Party’s choice- the safely right-wing Marco Rubio.
Crist then switched to an independent to run in the general election. He lost.
At the time, Crist was thought to have left an easy re-election to the state capitol for a fairly secure national seat. He had been flirting with the national spot light ever since the John Mccain campaign floated Crist as a possible choice for Veep in 2008.
All of it didn’t work out.
Now the former Republican Governor will come at the current Republican Governor, Rick Scott, from the left.
Or atleast, Charlie Crist’s version of the left.
