Daniella Levine Cava will vote early at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Joseph Caleb Center in Liberty City, the first of three days of get-out-the-vote stops with seven Democratic candidates across Miami-Dade through the end of early voting.
Joining the Miami-Dade County Mayor at the Caleb Center are Commissioner Oliver Gilbert, the Democratic nominee to succeed U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson in Florida’s 24th Congressional District, and state Rep. Ashley Gantt, the Democratic nominee for the Senate District 34 seat Shevrin Jones is leaving. Gantt keeps her district office in the same building.
Levine Cava will use the stop to ask voters to reject Amendment 3. The measure would raise the homestead exemption for non-school taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028. The county estimates it would collect $385.8 million less in property tax revenue in the first year at current rates and $696.7 million less the year after. The Mayor says the cut would hit police, fire rescue, parks and infrastructure.
She called the amendment “deceptive” at a Sept. 2 news conference outside the main library downtown and said it moves the bill for county services onto renters and business owners.
The latest St. Pete Polls survey for Florida Politics has the amendment at 44%, with 39% opposed and 17% undecided. It needs 60%. Voters who said they had already cast ballots opposed it 45% to 40%.
Saturday starts at 9:45 a.m. with a get-out-the-vote caravan at Charles Hadley Park with Jacksonville state Rep. Angie Nixon, the Democratic nominee against Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody. The same survey has Moody ahead 49% to 45%. Nixon led 56% to 41% among respondents who had already voted.
At noon, Levine Cava is at Miami Beach City Hall with Lucia Báez-Geller, the former School Board member challenging Republican state Rep. Fabián Basabe in House District 106. At 2 p.m., the Mayor is at the Historic Garage at Vizcaya with Gloria Romero Roses, the Democrat facing Republican former Commissioner Bruno Barreiro for the open House District 113 seat. At 3 p.m., Levine Cava is at the Coral Gables Branch Library with Richard Lamondin, the Democrat running against Republican state Sen. Alexis Calatayud in Senate District 38.
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried has called SD 38 one of the party’s top seats to flip this year.
Sunday opens at 12:30 p.m. with Souls to the Polls at Greater St. Paul AME Church in Coconut Grove, hosted by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party. The Mayor is back at the Coral Gables library at 2:30 p.m. for a second stop with Lamondin. The weekend ends at 4 p.m. at Coral Gables Congregational Church with David Jolly, the Democratic nominee for Governor. St. Pete Polls has Republican Byron Donalds ahead of Jolly 48% to 46%, inside the margin of error, with Jolly leading 58% to 38% among those who had already voted.
Early voting in Miami-Dade runs through Sunday. The county’s 28 sites are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and any registered voter in the county can use any of them.
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Ed. note: This story was drafted with assistance from AI. Editorial judgment, sourcing, and final review were performed by Peter Schorsch and the Florida Politics editorial team.
