Moe to Mo: Joe Saunders’ aunt agrees to name change after Miami-Dade Judge’s HD 106 ruling
Maureen Saunders Scott will not appear on the November ballot as “Moe Saunders.” Instead, her name will be “Mo Saunders Scott,” a compromise she agreed to after a more than eight-hour hearing at the Miami-Dade County Courthouse.
Judge Robert T. Watson capped the lengthy and frequently contentious hearing Thursday by ruling that Scott could run with her nickname, sans one letter and her married surname. The move came after she and lawyers for her nephew and opponent in the race for House District 106, former state Rep. Joe Saunders, agreed on the matter in a last-minute exchange.
He rejected assertions by Saunders’ lawyers, who sought to remove Scott from the ballot, that her candidacy was mo...
