GGG Commission Candidates Questionnaire Responses

Gables Good Government Committee

CORAL GABLES ELECTION QUESTIONNAIRE
Responses from Commission Candidates

To GGG Members and Friends:

The Coral Gables Commission candidates have provided answers to a questionnaire sent to them by the GGG Board and Advisory Council. All responses are published as written by each candidate:

We thank all the commission candidates for their time and for giving their views to Coral Gables voters on many of the issues that are important to our community. Remember to Vote!

Coral Gables Election Date
VOTE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 8th!

Vote-by-Mail Ballot
Register by 5 p.m., March 27, 2025
votemiamidade.gov/votebymail
(305) 499-8444

Vote Early
April 5 and April 6; Coral Gables Branch Library,
7 a.m.-7 p.m.; 3443 Segovia St., Coral Gables

Vote on Election Day
7 a.m.-7 p.m., Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Vote at your assigned precinct.

Joint Letter to the Miami Herald: Negative Campaigning in Coral Gables Elections

In partnership with the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, the Gables Good Government Committee submitted a letter to the Miami Herald concerning negative campaigning in the recent Coral Gables municipal election. Please read the unpublished letter below:

Putting your name on a ballot for consideration for public office takes a tremendous amount of determination and intestinal fortitude, especially these days. But it also requires an equal amount of integrity, faith and honor, something we as residents and business leaders in Coral Gables expect of our candidates, no matter if the term is for two years or four years. And while we saw a vast field – 13 in total – put their name forward and qualify for the April election, not all lived up to that expectation in our estimation.

Continue reading “Joint Letter to the Miami Herald: Negative Campaigning in Coral Gables Elections”

GGG Board of Directors July 2020 to June 2022

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

President ​Tom Snook
Vice President, Membership ​Susi Davis ​
Secretary Robert GIll
Treasurer ​Ines Calderon
Chair, Advisory Council Mayor Don Slesnick
Past President Debbie Swain

Member Emerita Mayor Dorothy Thomson​

Board Members

  • Sally Baumgartner
  • Gay Bondurant
  • Debbie Register

Presidents Ex-Officio

  • Jorge Alvarez
  • Mayor Don Slesnick
  • Jeannett Slesnick

GGG Advisory Council Members 2020-2021

  • Tony Andenoro
  • Evelyn Budde
  • Frank Gonzalez
  • Richard Leslie
  • Joanne Meagher
  • Patrick Morris
  • Jeannett Slesnick
  • Dorothy Stein