Vicki L. Lopez is the Miami-Dade County Commissioner, District 5. County Commissioners are the county legislature: they adopt the budget, pass ordinances, set land use and oversee county services. Appointed; serving until the November 2026 election decides the remainder of the term. Appointed by the Commission in November 2025 to fill Eileen Higgins’ vacated seat; faces Rob Piper in a November 3, 2026 runoff for the rest of the term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vicki L. Lopez is the Miami-Dade County Commissioner, District 5. County Commissioners are the county legislature: they adopt the budget, pass ordinances, set land use and oversee county services. Appointed; serving until the November 2026 election decides the remainder of the term. Appointed by the Commission in November 2025 to[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":702,"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[134],"class_list":["post-604","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","politics-category-county-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/miami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/miami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/miami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_politics"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/miami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/miami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/miami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}