Real estate money pops up in increasingly heated Miami-Dade judicial race
South Florida real estate money runs through local politics like clockwork, with industry players fueling a share of candidates and political committees’ coffers whenever election season rolls around. On June 25, many Miamians received a mass text directing them to a website attacking Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Mavel Ruiz, the incumbent in this year’s judicial election who most recently made headlines for presiding over the high-profile legal fight over the giveaway of valuable downtown Miami land for President Donald Trump’s presidential library. “Countless findings. Dozens of reversals. One disastrous record,” read part of the message. The site called Ruiz “Unethical. […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.
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