2012

See also:Florida House of Representatives elections, 2012

Dominguez ran in the2012 election forFlorida House of Representatives District 112. Dominguez was defeated byJose Javier Rodriguez in the Democratic primary on August 14, 2012.^[3]

Florida House of Representatives, District 112 Democratic Primary, 2012

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Jose Javier Rodriguez	57.6%	2,395
Alex Dominguez	42.4%	1,766
Total Votes		4,161

Reform Police Department

1. Make a strong commitment to fully fund a brand-new state of the art City of Miami Police Headquarters.
2. Remove the present Chief of Police and begin a 'National Search' for the position immediately and hire someone with more than 10 years left to retirement so that he or she may truly implement short term as well long term strategic plans for the dept.
3. Propose new guidelines for all NEW incoming police officers and recruits requiring at a minimum a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university to gain employment in the police dept.
4. Make sure we have 1500 police officers fully staffed at all times taking into account early retirement and the cities DROP program.

Strong Mayor Form of Government
The last 20 years has shown that our present form of city government has failed us tremendously with lack of execution and zero accountability for its failures. Most large American cities have a strong Mayor form of government in place and our city should follow suit. I will make a strong push to change our charter and help put the strong mayor question on a future ballot so that the City of Miami residents can decide for themselves which type of government they want going forward.

Traffic Gridlock In and Around our City
I will work closely with The Superintendent of Dade County Public Schools and The Mayor of Dade County to help push a 4-day school week for students in Dade County as well as offering large City and County employers incentives to offer their employees corresponding 4 day work weeks should they desire to do so. As many of us who commute daily know, we definitely have an easier commute anywhere when school is out or there is a teacher work day. This will alleviate traffic for at least 1 more day during the week and save the Dade County school system millions of dollars in operational costs overnight. I will also advocate for there to be permanent police officers assigned to direct traffic duty and turn off traffic lights during peak hours of 4:30 to 6.30pm Monday through Friday in high areas of congestion such as Brickell Avenue, US 1, and Biscayne Blvd.

Shut Down The CRA's
I will ask for the early sunset of both the OMNI CRA/ SEOPW which have been used as nothing more than a slush fund by politicians and some so-called community leaders for personal gain and has not helped eliminate slum and blight in the area as it was intended to do. The earlier we shut them down the less damage will be done to hard working taxpayer money going forward.

No More Employment Waivers
I will immediately ask for there to be an end to using hiring waivers to hire unqualified candidates for all city positions. This practice has decimated the level of professionalism at the City of Miami. The friends and family plan needs to stop!

Code Enforcement
As a city, we need to review our code enforcement procedures so that we do not continue to practice 'Selective Enforcement' where certain individuals or corporations get special treatment in our city while others are harassed. A violation of the code should be treated as such with transparency and consistency across the board. No exceptions.

City Employees 'Living Wage'
Introduce ordinance to give ALL City of Miami employees a fair living wage of $20 as compared to the $15 that was recently approved for all service contracts employees on contracts exceeding $100,000 entered with the City of Miami. Unfortunately, the $15 ordinance falls substantially short of the $24 dollar and hour living wage calculation made for 1 adult with a child in Miami Dade. This would be a positive step in the right direction.^[4]

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