MIAMI — Alyssa Crocker, a mother of two with experience in legislative advocacy and fundraising, is among the 13 candidates running for Miami mayor on Nov. 4.
Crocker, a registered Republican, said her advocacy for healthcare reform and civil rights at the Florida House and Senate started after her father died at North Shore Medical Center in 2022.
A House panel approved a bipartisan proposal to expand Florida’s Wrongful Death Act to restore the rights of some adults in some cases of medical negligence.
“I was able to make a difference in the things that I do when it comes to injustices, and so I just kept going, and there is so much to fix in Miami,” Crocker said.
Crocker, who attended Palm Beach State College, said that as a domestic violence survivor, she wants a non-emergency crisis response unit with social workers and volunteers who are not related to the Florida Department of Children and Families.
“It would really help with drug addicts, with runaways. It would help with veterans with mental health, with domestic violence victims, because they are so scared to call 911, especially when they have children,” Crocker said.
In the last five years, Crocker has lived in Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Augustine, and Miami Shores, records show. She also lived in West Palm Beach.
Crocker, who lives in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, considers a house in Liberty City her second residence, according to her affidavit of candidacy.
Crocker said she wants to implement an “online transparency dashboard” to avoid unethical “backroom deals” and public corruption so residents can “see where the dollars go.”
Related link: Campaign page
Related document: Affidavit of candidate (.PDF)
OTHER MAYORAL CANDIDATES
The other candidates in the nonpartisan race are Alex Díaz de la Portilla, Christian E. Cevallos, Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins, Elijah John Bowdre, Emilio González, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo, June Savage, Kenneth J. DeSantis, Ken Russell, Laura Anderson, Michael A. Hepburn, and Xavier L. Suarez.
Name recognition: Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is not related to newcomer Kenneth DeSantis, endorsed González, a retired U.S. Army Colonel and fellow Republican who served as Miami’s city manager from 2018 to 2020.
Suarez, who served as Miami mayor from 1985 to 1993 and from 1997 to 1998, is the father of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
Legal trouble: De La Portilla is a former Miami commissioner who served from 2020 to 2023 when Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended him over a corruption case that prosecutors later dropped.
Carollo, who served as Miami mayor from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2001, also has an arrest record. In 2001, police officers arrested him for domestic violence, and he agreed to attend anger management classes.
Later in 2023, a federal jury in civil court sided with two businessmen who won $63.5 million in damages against Carollo for “weaponizing” code enforcement to violate their rights after they supported one of his political opponents.
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