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Mitch PerryJune 6, 2017

Miami Beach House Democrat David Richardson will run for the Congressional District 27 seat being vacated next year by Republican Illeana Ros-Lehtinen. Richardson has served in the Florida House since 2012, when he became the first openly-gay lawmaker elected in Florida. He had been considering entering the race after Ros-Lehtinen announced in late April that she would step […]

Mitch PerryApril 30, 2017

Democratic hopes to retake the House in 2018 received a boost Sunday, with the announcement that longtime South Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will not run for re-election. “There was no epiphany. There was no moment, nothing that has happened that I’ve said, “I’ve got to move on,’” Ros-Lehtinen, who represents Florida’s 27th Congressional District, told […]

Staff ReportsApril 14, 2017

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First-term Democratic Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez is challenging to Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for Congress in 2018. The Miami Herald reports that Gonzalez is the second Democrat to file in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, recently redrawn and now leaning Democratic. In 2016, Hilary Clinton defeated Donald Trump by 20 percentage points in CD 27. […]

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David Richardson seeks to bring his brand of reform politics to D.C.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will not run for re-election in 2018

Miami Beach commissioner to challenge Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in 2018