MIAMI BEACH, Florida. – Dan Gelber will get a third and final term as Mayor of Miami Beach after being re-elected with just over 62 percent of the vote. He celebrated his victory on Tuesday night at the Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive.
“We have a lot to do in the next few years,” said Gelber. “We have a lot of wonderful things that we want to complete, like parks and more art and culture.”
In contrast to a similar election measure in 2017, 56 percent of voters, with certain exceptions, agreed to a city-wide alcohol ban at 2 a.m. It was a non-binding straw poll.
Jean Marie Echemendia
3,32226%
Carlos Enrique Gutierrez
3873%
94.4% of the district reports
(219/232)
The 2am vote was a key point in Gelber’s crime and chaos reduction platform and awareness of it.
“Voters made it very clear today that they wanted a 2am rollback and that this area should be a different type of area,” he said. “I look forward to helping each of these bars develop into a different business model.”
But vocal opponents have argued that crime in Miami Beach happens around the clock and that the alcohol ban would spiral the local economy.
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The Public Policy Group Citizens for a Safe Miami Beach said in an email that it “continues to oppose solutions that do nothing to solve the crime, but which cost 4,100 local workers their jobs, raise property taxes, and tens of millions of dollars in revenue the city will shorten ”. . “
“As long as Miami Beach is here, there will be entertainment,” said David Wallack, owner of Mango’s Tropical Cafe. “It is what it is. I look forward to working with the city now and making the good laws they should create to make Ocean Drive and South Beach a much better place.”
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