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# Cohen Higgins may be a mother, but she doesn't fight for your kids!
- URL: https://friends-of-south-dade.ghost.io/coming-soon/
- Published: 2026-08-02T16:30:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-03T17:59:20.000Z
- Author: Pete Kendall 
- Tags: News

Greetings!:

Danielle Cohen Higgins has a new campaign slogan: **“Nobody fights like a mother.”**

Well, **that depends on whose children need protecting.**

In April 2025, **Cohen Higgins voted to stop Miami-Dade County from adding fluoride to its drinking water.** The measure passed 8–2.

Mayor Levine **Cava vetoed it** after consulting dentists and medical experts.

**Cohen Higgins then voted to override that veto.** Now fluoride is gone.

The Centers for Disease Control says **fluoridated water greatly reduces cavities in children and adults**. That means less pain, fewer fillings, fewer pulled teeth and fewer missed school days.

Fluoridation also reaches families **regardless of their income, education or ability to afford regular dental care.**

Families with money, like Cohen Higgins', can purchase fluoride treatments, prescription toothpaste, and frequent visits to the dentist.

**Families struggling with rent, groceries and insurance have fewer options.**

That is why this vote mattered.

Cohen Higgins can print “Nobody fights like a mother” across every campaign mailer she sends.

But **when Miami-Dade’s children needed someone** to follow the medical evidence and defend a simple, proven public-health safeguard, **Cohen Higgins fought — to remove it!**

Not from her own bathroom cabinet. From everybody’s drinking water.

Nobody fights like a mother?

**Please!**

Danielle Cohen Higgins needs to explain why **she’s not fighting like a mother for YOURkids.**

**Friends of South Dade**