The hustle is on in Miami-Dade, and for those of us paying attention, the timing couldn’t be more critical. Just two days ago, on July 9, the Office of the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections officially kicked off the distribution of Vote-by-Mail (VBM) ballots for the August 18 Primary Election.

Let’s be honest for a second. If you grabbed a script of today's political landscape and pitched it to a Hollywood executive, they’d reject it for being completely unrealistic. "Too much drama," they’d say. "The pacing is too wild."