Democrats bash decision to reject Miami Heat's offer of AA Arena as an early-voting site
Two of Miami-Dade’s leading Democratic candidates stood on a street corner outside the AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday and denounced Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to reject the Miami Heat’s offer to use the facility as an early-voting site and instead use a nearby museum with easy access to the city’s Metromover system.
Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, whom Gimenez is trying to unseat in November, declared the Republican mayor’s decision “voter suppression” and said Gimenez was following President Donald Trump and an “authoritarian playbook.”
She was joined by Daniella Levine Cava, a county commissioner running to succeed a term-limited Gimenez, who said she had been in touch with Heat management about the team’s push for an early voting site for the time since the arena opened in 2000.
Levine Cava, a Democrat, called Gimenez’s decision “a blatant power grab.” “I urge the mayor... to reconsider this decision and to enter into this historic partnership,” she said.
Christina White, the county’s elections supervisor and a Gimenez appointee, described a more pedestrian motivation in declining the Heat’s offer in favor of the Frost Science museum five blocks away.
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