Florida Political and Community Selected Weekly News
Republican Congressional Candidate:
Embargo to Cuba a Historic Mistake Hurting our Families
Selected Political News from the week of December 18-24th, 2017
Gabriel Ferrer, a Cuban American Engineer, Republican and candidate to Congress for district 27 in South Florida: "Ileana Ros-Lehtinen betrayed us all.."
Photo source: Florida Immigrant Coalition
Photo: CBS4, Miami
Year 1. Volume 1. Number 1. December 25th 2017
Florida
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Recognized Manipulation
of Hispanic Electorate
$11 Millions Campaign Contribututions Spc Interests and Others
"I'm not looking for challengers," Ros-Lehtinen said. "If people are happy with me, what's wrong with that?". She still raises money ("A million dollars keeps people out, which is, of course, our intention"). Laughing, she added, "Unless that picture of me kissing Castro comes out, I think I'm pretty safe...."
Many elderly Cubans ... are not eager for anyone to challenge Ros-Lehtinen. As long as she speaks to them in their native language & promises to keep fighting Fidel Castro, are satisfied.
Economy
Tax bill vote: Marco Rubio is no ‘longtime champion of the working class’
$43,536,712 Millions Campaign Contributions 2018:
Fanjul Grp, Goldman Sack, Greenberg Traurig, Geo Health, Amway, Realtors & others
At the last minute, Sen. Marco Rubio remembered where he comes from.
Florida’s junior U.S. senator hails from Miami-Dade County, in which six out of 10 residents struggle to pay for food, housing, transportation, healthcare and childcare.
It’s where 21 percent of the 858,000 families live below the poverty level.
Miami Beach
Congressional Cand. District 27, Kristen R. González (D): Defends arms dealer
Contributed $2,700 to her campaign
A Miami Beach commissioner and congressional candidate tried earlier this year to dissuade the city’s police chief from going after a campaign donor accused of walking around his condo tower with a rifle and hacking fire alarms apart with a machete, according to public records.
Facing a dozen felony charges in connection with the destruction of 11 fire alarms at the Sunset Harbour South condo tower.
Police say Agazim, 41, was seen...
Photo: Plcubablog
Washington DC
Departing GOP lawmakers warn that their party could lose majorities in 2018
Republicans could easily lose their congressional majorities in 2018, two retiring GOP lawmakers warned Sunday, pointing to a lack of diversity in the party and President Donald Trump's pattern of catering to his narrow conservative base as likely harbingers of bad news for their party.
"When you look at some of the audiences cheering for Republicans sometimes, you look out there and you say, 'Those are the spasms of a dying party,'" Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said on ABC's "This Week."
Communities
Puerto Rico Family Celebrates Their First Christmas In Florida
Grisel Robles and family relocated to Florida after Hurricane Maria. They moved into their own apartment in Fort Lauderdale to get ready for Christmas.
Since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, more than 200,000 people from the island have resettled in FL. Now, by comparison that is bigger than the Mariel boatlift, which brought around 125,000 Cubans to Florida in 1980. Because people arriving from Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens, they might have an easier time adjusting to life on the mainland.
Environment
Florida could spend a billion dollars on an Everglades reservoir. But will it work?
This spring Florida lawmakers approved plans for a massive new reservoir near Lake Okeechobee, touting the billion-dollar project as a breakthrough in the decades-old effort to save the Everglades.
Almost a year later, S-Florida water managers are struggling to make the ambitious project a reality — while environmental groups begun to raise concerns that the plan is based on flawed data and that it may become a Trojan horse used to challenge long-standing water quality standards for fragile Everglades ecosystem.
Cuba
Trump Admins tougher stance hitting ordinary Cubans and Cuban-Americans
"They’re not helping us. They’re killing us," says a young Cuban small business owner worried about fewer U.S. tourists following Trump policy changes.
When Gino Castellanos, 22, made his way to Florida from Cuba 6 years ago, his plan was to eventually marry his high school sweetheart, Helen Obediente, and bring her to the U.S. to live with him.
They got engaged and applied for a fiancée visa in 2015. But frustrated by the lengthy process, they decided to tie the knot.
AP Photo/Desmond Boylan
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