Mitch Perry
Struggling in the polls and now forced to engage aggressively against front-runner Donald Trump, the Jeb Bush campaign team announced that he’s got a lotta love in his home Miami-Dade County community.
The Jeb!2016 Miami-Dade County Campaign Leadership group was announced on Thursday. The group is being touted as helping promote the former Florida governor’s record of “using his conservative leadership to transform the diverse state of Florida into an economic success story.”
The group is being chaired by Jeb Bush Jr. Honorary Chairmen are former RPOF Chairman Al Cardenas, former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and the three GOP members of Congress based in Miami-Dade: Illean Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Curbelo.
“I’m proud to support my friend, Jeb, in his campaign for president,” Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen said in a prepared statement. “Jeb’s record of job creation in Florida demonstrates he can grow our economy nationally and get Americans back to work. Additionally, Jeb knows that we need a foreign policy that will help America regain its prestige and that is democracy centered. Jeb is focused on ensuring our nation is once again a global leader and for that reason and many others, it’s my honor to support Jeb for president.”
*this is the initial Miami-Dade County Campaign Committee
Honorary Chairmen
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart
Congressman Carlos Curbelo
Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart (1993-2011)
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Al Cardenas (1999-2003)
Chairman
Jeb Bush, Jr.
Campaign Committee Chairman
Jorge L. Arrizurieta
Campaign Committee Organizational Co-Chairs
Maria de la Milera
Miriam Cajiga
Campaign Committee Co-Chairs
Cesar L. Alvarez
Patricia ‘Patty’ Arias
Andres Asion
Wilhemina Austin
Rodney Barreto
Marie Bell
Mary Collins
Dean Colson
Dr. Ranley Desir
Daniel Diaz Leyva
Remedios Diaz-Oliver
Ed Easton
Willard Fair
Rudy Fernandez
Andreina Figueroa
Luis Andre Gazitua
Wendy Grant
Manny Iglesias
Lois Jones
Ahmed Kabani
Manny Kadre
Jon Kislak
Ron Krongold
Jesse Manzano-Plaza
Roberto “Bobby” Martinez
Joe Martory
Dr. Modesto A. Maidique
Ana Navarro
Armando Olivera
Sergio Pino
Marcoantonio Real
Raquel “Rocky” Rodriguez
Gudelia Salman
Darryl Sharpton
Karl Stenstrom
Cathy Triana
Tony Villamil
Miami-Dade County Campaign Leadership
State Sen. Anitere Flores
State Sen. Rudy Garcia (2001-2010)
State Rep. Frank Artiles
State Rep. Michael Bileca
State Rep. Jose Felix Diaz
State Rep. Manny Diaz, Jr.
State Rep. Erik Fresen
State Rep. Jose Oliva
State Rep. Holly Raschein
State Rep. Carlos Trujillo
State Rep. Arnhilda Badia (1984-1988)
State Rep. JC Planas (2002-2010)
State Rep. Julio Robaina (2003-2010)
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez
County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro
County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz
County Commissioner Javier Souto
County Commissioner Juan C. Zapata
Miami-Dade School Board Chair Perla Tabares-Hantman
Sweetwater Mayor Matilde Aguirre (1991-1994)
Sweetwater Mayor Orlando Lopez
Medley Mayor Roberto Martell
Homestead Mayor Steve Shiver (1997-2000)
North Miami Beach Mayor George Vallejo
Florida City Vice-Mayor R.S. Shiver
Aventura Commissioner Luz Weinberg (2005-2014)
Coral Gables Commissioner Wayne “Chip” Withers (1991-2011)
Hialeah Councilwoman Katharine Cue-Fuente
Hialeah Councilwoman Isis Garcia-Martinez
Hialeah Councilman Paul Hernandez
Homestead Councilman Jon Burgess
Homestead Councilman Elvis Maldonado
Sweetwater Commissioner Jose Bergouignan
Sweetwater Commissioner Jose M. Diaz
Sweetwater Commissioner Manuel Duasso
Sweetwater Commissioner Idania Llanio
Sweetwater Commissioner Isolina Maroño
Virginia Gardens Council President Jorge Arce
Florida Supreme Court Justice Raoul Cantero (2002-2008)
Ambassador Chuck Cobb
Ambassador Sue Cobb
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Jose Abreu
Alejandro Aguirre
Maria Cruell Aguirre
Jose Alcaraz
Frances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa
Jose “JB” Aleman
JC Alexander
Juan Alexander
Capt. William Alexander
Vance Aloupis
Carlos Alvarez del Castillo
Susie Alvarez-Diaz
Susan Amat, Ph. D.
Tony Argiz
Roberto Arguello
Isilio Arriaga
Mari Arrizurieta
Luis F. Arrizurieta
Diana Arteaga
Robert Barlick, Jr.
Ivan Barrios
Jose Bermudez
Blanca Bichara
Tere Blanca
Gigi Bolt
Katherine Bolt
Christina Bonarrigo
Eddie Borrego
Romero Britto
Orlando Cabrera
Alexis Calatayud
Ines Calderon
Lissette Calderon
Silvia Camps
Lourdes Carroll
Harriet Carter
Dennis V. Carvajal
Humberto Castello
Jorge Chamizo
Melisa Chantres
Ana-Marie Codina Barlick
Mary Louise Cole-Wood
Alejandra Collarte
Eddie Cora
John Couriel
Mary & Edward Crawford
Dulce Cuetara
Teresita Curbelo
Carlos Curbelo Sr.
Rina Darzhansky
Ellie Davis
Sergio De La Fe, Jr.
Jose De La Lama
Juan and Maria Del Busto
Juan del Cerro
Helena Del Monte
Anna del Rio Chong
Juan Carlos Del Valle
Diana Delgado
Fausto G. Diaz
Frank Diaz
Paul DiMare
Bertha Dominguez
Xavier Dominguez
Gonzalo Dorta
Patrick Downes
Lani Drody
Patrick Dyer
Oscar Echevarria
Pierre Elysee
Max Fajardo
Kamal Farah
Keith Fernandez
Mario Fernandez
Mike Fernandez
Robert Fernandez
Dr. Maurice R. Ferre
Steven Ferreiro
Feliciano Foyo
Albert Fraga
Jose Fuentes
Pedro Fuentes-Cid
Raul Gandarillas
Horacio Garcia
Mario Garcia-Serra
Tony Garrastazu
Cookie Gazitua
Emely Gazitua
Sara Pozo Gazitua
Sean Paul Gazitua
Carlos Gimenez, Jr.
Roberto Godoy
Tony Goitia
Keila Gonzalez
Austin Gorris
Cesar Grajales
Roxanna Greene
Flynt & Carter Griffin
Andrew Grigsby
James P. Gueits
Heriberto Guerra
Isidro “Izzy” Guillama
Karina Gutierrez
Matthew D. Gutierrez
Nicolas Gutierrez
Jerry Haar
Raul Henriquez
Alberto Hernandez
Maria Hernandez
David Jorge Herrera
Eddie Hondal
Barbara Howard
Paul Huck, Jr.
Saif Ishoof
Adolfo Jimenez
Frank Jimenez
Burton Landy
Elie Landy
Lisa Landy
Carol Licko
Marta Lima
Hector Lombana
Edward London
Nelson Lopez
Yara Lorenzo
Lilliam & Gus Machado
Juan Macias
Chris Malek
Tom Martinelli
Ramon E. Mas Canosa
Ricardo Mayo, Jr.
Stephen McDuffie
Maruchi Mendez
Michael Mendez
Hugo Menendez
Damian Merlo
Arsenio Milian
Berna Montalvan
Marcelo Montalvan
Jose Montes
Milagros Montes
Noelia Moreno
Jan Morrison
Jane Muir
Eric Munoz
Mario Murgado
Carlos Musibay
Andrea Nachtigall
Gabriel Navarro
Janis Nordstrom
Tim O’Neill
Tony Okonmah
Daisy Oliveros
Irene Oria
Shaun Patel
Frank Pena
Rafael Peñalver
Cristina Pereyra Alvarez
Luis Armando Perez-Codina
Alex Planas
Gilda M. Plasencia
Ines Portilla
Cid Puyada
Ana Quincoces
Armando Quinoa
Mauricio Quirch
Charles Raele
Patricia Ramos
Olga Ramudo
Walter Revell
Israel Reyes
Manolo Reyes
Brent M. Reynolds
Anthony Rionda
Javier Rodriguez
Merci Rodriguez
Raul Rodriguez
Dr. Vicente Rodriguez
LJ Rodriguez
Oscar Roger
Pedro Roig
Bob Rosasco
Wayne Rosen
Ben Rosenberg
Doug Rosenberg
Juan A. Rubi
Julio Rumbaut
Charles Safdie
John Sagarribay
Marcus C. Saiz de la Mora
Pierre Saliba
Harout Jack Samra
Mike Sanchez
Juan Santana
Justin Sayfie
Claudia Selva de la Vega
Eugenio Sevilla-Sacasa
Scott Shapiro
Catherine Shaw
Tere Shelton Bernace
Melissa Shuffield
Maria “Maruca” Silva
Leonard Simkovitz
Jorge Sonville
Jose Sotolongo
Thomas P. Spencer
Nicolas Stanham
Maritza Toledo
Ricardo Vadia
Julieta Valls
Nicolas Valls
Oscar Varona
Javier Vazquez
Marielena Villamil
Jose “TJ” Villamil, Jr.
Pedro Villar
Juan Villegas
Dominique Virchaux
Paul Wallace
Roberto Zamora
Fernando Zulueta
Luis Zuniga
