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Former Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins will be Miami’s first woman Mayor after beating Republican ex-City Manager Emilio González in a runoff Tuesday. She is also the first Democrat to win the job in nearly 30 years.
For the Miami Commission’s District 3 seat, political newcomer Rolando Escalona denied former Commissioner Frank Carollo, a fellow Republican, a trip back to City Hall.
In Miami Beach, Democrat Monica Matteo-Salinas defeated Republican lawyer Monique Pardo Pope for the City Commission’s Group 1 seat.
And over in Hialeah, Republicans Gelien Perez and William “Willy” Marrero won the City Council’s Group 3 and 4 seats.
– Jesse Scheckner, Florida Politics, The South FL 100