Property Appraiser Race Headed To Run Off
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The race for the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser is headed to a run off.
With 711 out of 812 precincts reporting, Pedro J. Garcia has 35-percent of the vote while Eddy González has 25-percent of the vote.
The other three candidates are Alex Dominguez, Albert Armada and Carlos Gobel.
Garcia is a former Miami-Dade Property Appraiser who lost his position to Carlos López-Cantera in the August 2012 election. López-Cantera resigned in January when he was tapped by Governor Rick Scott to become the state's new lieutenant governor.
González is a Hialeah career politician who faces term limits as a Republican state representative.
The Miami-Dade Property Appraiser is a powerful county post.
The non-partisan position pays $168,000-a-year and is responsible for setting the taxable value for nearly a million parcels of residential and commercial property in Miami-Dade — done mostly through a complex process of mass appraisal — and for certifying the tax roll for cities and other taxing authorities.
The property appraiser runs a $33.7-million annual budget with more than 360 employees.
If no candidate gets more than 50 percent during the election, the top two vote-getters will face off in the general election Nov. 4.
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