Political consultant Ulvert cuts deals with Republicans to help his Miami mayoral Democrat win
By Francisco Alvarado, FloridaBulldog.org
Just about every South Florida MAGA Republican, including President Donald Trump, has endorsed former Miami City Manager Emilio Gonzalez to be the city’s next mayor. Recently, two of Miami’s Cuban-American congressional members, Maria Elvira Salazar and Mario Diaz-Balart, joined the Gonzalez bandwagon ahead of the December 9 run-off. But their fellow Cuban-American colleague and staunch Trump regime defender, U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, has avoided making an endorsement.
Miami Democrats who spoke to Florida Bulldog suspect Gimenez and his camp have cut a deal to secretly back Gonzalez’s opponent Eileen Higgins, the former Miami-Dade county commissioner who headed into the runoff with a nearly 16-point lead after claiming first place in the Nov. 4 city election. At the center of the alleged arrangement is Higgins’s campaign manager Christian Ulvert, the political consultant who has built an electioneering empire largely from his work in managing the ascent of another Democratic-elected official, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
Ulvert is chairman of Ethical Leadership for Miami, a political action committee backing Higgins that has raised $657,950 primarily from individuals and corporations that have business with Miami-Dade, campaign finance reports show. Ulvert’s two firms, Edge Communications and Win Canvass, have billed Ethical Leadership roughly $376,000 for consulting, canvassing and outreach work.
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