Robaina

The June 28 runoff will pit Julio Robaina, mayor of Hialeah, a city northwest of Miami, against Carlos Gimenez, a former Miami-Dade county commissioner.

Miami-Dade Mayor's Race Likely Headed for Runoff Timothy W. Martin 2011

"We are not going to accept business as usual," Mr. Robaina said in an interview.

Miami-Dade Mayor's Race Likely Headed for Runoff Timothy W. Martin 2011

"We need to run government like a business—without affecting core services," Julio Robaina, mayor of Hialeah, a city of 221,000 located eight miles northwest of Miami, said in an interview.

After the Recall, Race Begins for Miami-Dade Mayor Timothy W. Martin 2011

As a candidate, Mr. Robaina said he wants to reduce duplication in county government, making his point by noting it takes visits to five different buildings to get a single county building permit.

After the Recall, Race Begins for Miami-Dade Mayor Timothy W. Martin 2011

Mr. Robaina received 34% of the 178,095 tallied votes, while Mr. Gimenez landed 29%.

Miami-Dade Mayor's Race Likely Headed for Runoff Timothy W. Martin 2011

The top vote getters in that poll were: Hialeah's Mr. Robaina at 28% of the vote; Mr. Gimenez with 9%; and Joe Martinez, the current county commission chairman, who plans to run in 2012 but not in a special election, with 4%.

After the Recall, Race Begins for Miami-Dade Mayor Timothy W. Martin 2011

Among those: Julio Robaina , the mayor of Hialeah, a northwest Miami suburb, who is campaigning on lowering taxes and curbing the power of county commissioners

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Robaina said industry lobbyists are gathering with Ross' staff today to try to undo his amendment.

Archive 2005-04-01 Beach Blogger 2005

Robaina said industry lobbyists are gathering with Ross' staff today to try to undo his amendment.

Not in God's Hands Beach Blogger 2005

Robaina, his delegation and senior African National Congress officials hosted a media briefing at the ANC headquarters in

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996