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Miami, Florida - Steve Gallon is a “Doctor” like Jill Biden is a “Doctor.” Don’t ask either of them to help deliver a baby on an airplane, because their degrees are in something called educational administration. That’s where they teach you how to administer failing government indoctrination centers for children.
Gallon has been the member for District 1 of the Miami-Dade County School Board since his election in 2016, and his re-elections in 2020 and 2024. Now Gallon is running for Miami-Dade County Commissioner, District 1.
He Has Done This Before. Twice. The Record Proves It.
Gallon brings quite a record to his campaign - - An arrest. Eleven criminal charges. A conspiracy to steal educational services from New Jersey schoolchildren. A signed lifetime ban from public school employment to avoid jail. Three charter schools shuttered under his Florida firm. A son, named Steven Gallon IV to carry on the family name, in jail for shooting an undercover narcotics detective—a son still living in his father’s home and registered to vote at his father’s address. A campaign for County Commissioner filed with zero dollars raised. And a political machine that has yet to disclose itself.
These facts are not a political hit. They are compiled from public records, court documents and reputable reporting.
Steve Gallon has built a career on being entrusted with other people’s children and other people’s money, then failing that trust:
1, In New Jersey, that trust ended in an arrest, eleven criminal charges, and a signed agreement never to work in public schools again—in exchange for avoiding jail.
2. In Florida, it ended with three charter schools shuttered and documented allegations of financial abuse.
3. On the Miami-Dade County School Board, it coincided with his own son—living under his roof—being arrested for attempting to murder a law enforcement officer. His son remains in jail today.
Now Gallon wants Miami-Dade County voters to hand him a County Commissioner seat. He filed to run for office this week with zero dollars raised. He has offered no public accounting of his record. His backers have not disclosed themselves. The pattern is clear. It has played out in two states, across more than a decade, and it is thoroughly documented.
NEW JERSEY: Arrested. Eleven Charges. A Deal to Stay Out of Jail. Not a Political Smear—A Court Record.
In 2008, Gallon was hired as Superintendent of Plainfield, New Jersey’s public school district—7,000 students, $198,000 per year salary. Within months, problems surfaced. He imported associates from out of state—including Angela Kemp and Lalelei Kelly—and placed them in six-figure positions for which they were not legally certified.
When the New Jersey Department of Education intervened, Gallon did not correct course; instead, he tried to circumvent the rules. That triggered a full investigation by the Office of Fiscal Accountability and Compliance, which uncovered financial irregularities throughout the district.
The outcome was no mere administrative slap. In 2010, Gallon, Kemp, and Kelly were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit theft of educational services. Together, they faced eleven criminal charges.
A court photo from that year shows Gallon seated alongside his co-defendants—the very associates he had hired, placed in uncertified roles, and paid with public funds. He had even sworn under oath that their children lived at his address. According to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, and a 2014 New Jersey Appellate Court ruling, the women and their children actually resided in nearby Perth Amboy, not at Gallon’s South Plainfield address.
In January 2011, all three entered New Jersey’s Pre-Trial Intervention program—a diversion that allowed them to avoid jail time on the eleven charges. For Gallon, the price was a legally binding Consent Order permanently barring him from seeking or accepting employment in any New Jersey public school. The New Jersey State Board of Examiners then revoked his school administrator certificates entirely.
When confronted with this record in 2016, Gallon called it politics. But a man does not sit in a courtroom with his co-defendants, face eleven criminal charges, and sign a lifetime ban from public school employment because of politics. He does it to stay out of prison.
Gallon signed a consent order to: “Never seek nor accept employment in any New Jersey public school or public school system.” The charges that Gallon faced included conspiracy to commit theft of educational services. The New Jersey State Board of Examiners revoked Gallon’s administrator certificate.
The question for Miami-Dade County voters is straightforward: Does a man arrested on eleven criminal charges, who accepted a lifetime ban from public school employment to avoid prosecution, deserve control over billions of dollars in County public funds? Electing him to the County Commission would be like putting Pete Rose in charge of preventing gambling on their own games by Major League Baseball players.
FLORIDA: Five Months After the Lifetime Ban, Gallon Was Back. The Pattern Was Identical.
Gallon did not step back from public life after New Jersey. He relocated. The New Jersey court had explicitly left open the possibility of public school employment in Florida. He took that opening. Within five months of signing the Consent Order, he founded Tri-Star Leadership in Florida and obtained contracts with three South Florida charter schools. He brought the same felonious associates and paid them from school funds. A Sun Sentinel investigation documented that he padded their compensation with double payments drawn from public money—the same pattern that had triggered his criminal charges in New Jersey.
All three charter schools were subsequently shut down. Asked about it by the Florida Bulldog publication in 2016, Gallon said: “That had nothing to do with me.” Three schools. Same associates. Same financial pattern. Same result. Same denial. “He brought in out-of-state associates, paid them with school funds—including double payments. All three schools were shut down,” according to the Sun Sentinel.
THE SON, THE SHOOTING AND THE ADDRESS: A Son in Jail for Shooting a Cop. Living in His Home. Registered at His Address.
In March 2023, while Gallon served as a sitting Miami-Dade School Board member, his son, Steven Gallon IV—living in his father’s home and listed at that address on corporate filings—was arrested for allegedly shooting an undercover Miami-Dade narcotics detective in the head. This is not a media allegation; it is a booking record. His son was jailed and denied bond.
According to investigators, police were conducting narcotics surveillance on Gallon IV’s associate Atiba Moore. When a detective pursued Moore, Gallon IV allegedly approached from behind and shot the officer. The 18-year veteran was grazed and survived. A judge ordered Gallon IV held without bond, and prosecutors sought to upgrade the charge to attempted first-degree murder.
The surveillance was part of a broader investigation into a crime ring smuggling drugs into Miami-Dade County jails, including involvement by Corrections Officers. Court records show that Gallon IV appears in four separate Miami-Dade cases. The address tying him to the 2023 arrest matches the one on the Tri-Star Leadership corporate filing from earlier. His son remains in jail today.
Gallon, a sitting Miami-Dade County School Board member at the time, declined all media interviews after his son’s arrest. He offered no public statement, no accountability, no explanation. He simply waited it out—the same approach he took in New Jersey.
THE DEFLECTION: Gallon Doesn’t Deny It. He Doesn’t Own It. He Calls It Racism—Every Time.
When his record surfaces, Gallon follows a consistent pattern: He does not deny the facts. He does not accept responsibility. He does not explain what happened or why it won’t recur. Instead, he reframes the question as: This is what they do to black men. This is political targeting. This is racism.
He used this response in New Jersey in 2011. He used it again when the Florida Bulldog publication exposed his record in 2016. He deploys variations of it whenever the documented facts reemerge. Each time, the underlying evidence—the Consent Order, the eleven charges, the three shuttered schools, the double payments—goes unaddressed. The conversation shifts to charges of racism.
Racism in public institutions is real, and the targeting of black officials is historically documented. These are serious concerns that belong to the community, not to any individual as a personal shield. When a man who signed a Consent Order, appeared in court with his co-defendants, presided over three failed charter schools, and faces documented financial mismanagement, responds to every factual accounting by invoking racial persecution, he is not defending himself. He is borrowing the community’s legitimate grievances to evade the accountability that the record shows he deserved.
Gallon has never denied signing the Consent Order. He has never disputed the certificate revocations. He has never explained the three charter schools or the double payments. He offers deflection instead of denial—because denial would be falsifiable. Invoking racism to avoid accountability for documented misconduct is not community advocacy. It is the use of the community’s pain as political armor.
The black community of Miami-Dade County, Commission District 1, deserves this to be addressed plainly: Your history of institutional targeting does not belong to Gallon for him to wield for personal protection—especially when the signed records and court photos are real.
THE POLITICAL MACHINE: Zero Dollars Raised. Zero Donors Disclosed. A Cleared Field. Someone Is Running This Play—and It Isn’t Gallon.
On May 29, 2026, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson announced that she would not seek re-election to Florida’s 24th Congressional District. Within hours, Commissioner Oliver Gilbert III resigned his County Commissioner, District 1, seat, effective January 3, 2027—the exact date a new Congressman would be sworn in. The moment the seat opened, events moved quickly.
Too quickly for a candidate with no campaign funds, no disclosed donors, and a public record that would give most consultants pause. Yet there was Gallon, filing papers and camera-ready—reporting $0.00 in contributions, $0.00 in-kind support, and $0.00 in expenditures. In Miami-Dade County politics, candidates who file broke and move fast are rarely independent. The money comes later—and it arrives with obligations.
On June 1, 2026—just three days after the County Commissioner seat opened—Miami Gardens City Councilwoman Linda Julien announced her candidacy. She was credible: a sitting elected official with an established base. One week later, she was out. Her statement cited “much prayer, reflection, and conversations with residents, community leaders, and those who have supported my journey.” It offered no specific reason for her reversal.
Sources in County Commissioner, District 1, political circles say the explanation was simpler: calls were made. According to multiple people with knowledge of the situation, City Councilwoman Julien received pressure to exit. This is political intelligence, reported as such. What is established is that Julien entered with a strong profile, reversed course within seven days without a clear explanation, and her exit left Gallon as the only declared candidate, with the June 12 qualifying deadline approaching. In Miami-Dade County politics, a cleared field is rarely accidental.
Political operatives in Liberty City and Overtown name Barbara Hardemon—wife of Billy Hardemon, aunt by marriage to County Commissioner Keon Hardemon—alongside Gallon. The Florida Bulldog publication has documented her role chairing the One Miami-Dade PAC, which raised $465,950 to support Keon Hardemon. Sources identify her as the organizing force behind Gallon’s bid, with the understanding that a Gallon victory would deliver influence over District 1 resources, including community redevelopment funds.
“Nobody files for commission at zero dollars without knowing the money is coming. The question isn’t whether there’s a backer. The question is what the backer wants from District 1 when it’s all over,” according to a Miami-Dade County political operative, speaking on background. “The community needs to ask—who does this man serve? Because it’s not going to be District 1,” according to a Miami-Dade County community organizer, also speaking on background.
THE PATTERN — TAKEN TOGETHER: The Verdict that the Record Returns
Individually, each chapter of Gallon’s record can be waved away—as Gallon has done for years, not by disputing facts but by changing the subject. Taken together, they reveal a man who has repeatedly sought positions of public trust, exploited them, moved on when accountability loomed, and responded to every documented finding with the same deflection—across states and decades.
1. In New Jersey, he was arrested, faced eleven criminal charges, and reached a deal to stay out of jail, and a lifetime ban, but he called it politics.
2. In Florida, he produced three shuttered schools, documented double payments, with the same associates, but said: “that had nothing to do with me.”
3. In Miami-Dade County, his son went to jail for attempted murder of a law enforcement officer while living in his home, but Gallon said nothing.
4. Now he has launched his candidacy for County Commissioner, running with zero disclosed funding, a cleared field, and an undisclosed political machine.
The voters of County Commission District 1 are not being asked to overlook a minor blemish. They are being asked to entrust County Commission authority—over billions of dollars in public spending and policy—to a man with this record. They deserve better. And they deserve the full truth.
