Pinecrest

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in Pinecrest, Florida, and one of the guest bedrooms, it was a big rental house, right?

Mm.

One of the guest bedrooms had a Ms. Pac-Man in it.

There were some things out there.

Okay.

And if you live in Pinecrest, Florida-

Yeah

And it's a very, very diverse district.

It includes downtown Miami, Brickell, Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne, South Miami, Pinecrest, goes down to Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay.

Then it includes...

East Perrine, Kendall, Little Havana, Flagami, and I may be missing a few areas, but it goes all the way west to the Florida Turnpike.

The dry cleaning is

like three times more expensive in South Miami than in Pinecrest.

I'm telling you, bro.

But in Hialeah, you're also getting like a pastelito on the side as well.

Across the country, scores of districts that President Donald Trump won by 10 points or more are now firmly in play." That was from The Cook Political Report.

The House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat from New York, was asked about the battle for control of the House while campaigning today with Democratic House candidate Elliot Rodriguez in Pinecrest, Florida, 27th Congressional District of Florida, and he's running against incumbent Republican Maria Elvira Salazar.

I have a question for Leader Jeffries.

Uh, Arlette Saenz with CNN.

This is an incredibly winnable seat because we have an incredibly compelling candidate, public servant, someone who is close to the community, has lived in the community, has been a voice for the community during an extraordinary career in journalism, and I'm gonna be a forceful and strong advocate to make sure that we're doing everything possible to ensure that Elliot Rodriguez has the resources to communicate to the people here in South Florida, because when that happens, I'm confident he's gonna be successful.

Yeah.

Yeah.Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat from New York, the minority leader at a news conference in Pinecrest, Florida, in the twenty-seventh Congressional District with the Democratic nominee in that race, Elliot Rodriguez.

The House Speaker, Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, spoke about the state of play for the House majority on Thursday in New Bern, North Carolina, the first district there with Republican candidate Laurie Buckout, who's trying to beat the incumbent Democrat, Don Davis.

Right.

Like, I'm sitting here, and I own a very nice home here in Pinecrest or, uh, Pinecrest, Florida.

Right.

Right.I have a lot of equity.

Obviously, they can go as high as 10%.

South Florida, we're really majorities are around four or five max six percent six so they could go they absolutely can flux they absolutely can change but I think competition drives innovation as well and seeing how the cities have even I've seen how Coral Gables have shifted to Pinecrest and watching the millage rates go back and forth and then praise how Coral Gables is cheaper than Pinecrest and so I do believe the cities will also that competition I think also helps drive innovation for new ways to to spend, to save, and to budget.

And so I'm hopeful that we figure it out and to Alicia's point that we are able to tighten and that the burden isn't shifted from one to another, but more everyone gets a little more fiscally responsible, but then figures out how to perhaps spread or go to our taxpayers and have that conversation even better.

And I think there's some really great additional solutions that could come from this.

Um, but, you know, it's, it's, uh, an interesting placement.

But, you know, we know, you know, down in, in Miami as an example, you have the Parrot Jungle that moved out of Pinecrest, and they wanted to move to Watson Island across from PortMiami because of all those people that are going between Miami and Miami Beach.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, it's interesting to see that, you know, no hotels, the wa- no water park was ever built there, no restaurants were built there, and, uh, they're, they're actually not, uh, you know, they, they, they never, they never realized their potential is, is the point.