Associated PressMay 19, 2022
5min0
Darren Soto is sponsoring the legislation that is likely doomed in the Senate, as Republicans oppose statehood for Puerto Rico.
Tag: Nydia Velazquez
Associated PressMay 19, 2022
Bill RuftyNovember 3, 2018
3min324
Democratic members of Congress and a national women’s political group began a heavy push toward Election Day for Lakeland attorney Kristen Carlson in her campaign for Florida’s 15th Congressional District. U.S. Reps. Val Demings, and Darren Soto and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez a Democrat from New York and the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected […]
Scott PowersNovember 2, 2018
3min279
Eva Longoria Bastón and America Ferrera will be among celebrity Latinas and others supporting the Andrew Gillum‘s Democratic gubernatorial campaign at a rally with R. Jai Gillum in Kissimmee Sunday morning. The Latino Victory Fund, a national political committee funded by George Soros, announced it is arranging an early-vote rally at the 65th Infantry Veterans Park, in […]
Jacob OglesOctober 27, 2018
2min189
Democratic state Senate candidate Janet Cruz encouraged voters to bring friends to the polls and showed up with some prominent ones of her own—namely U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez and Senate Democratic Leader Audrey Gibson. Cruz held the first of two get-out-the-vote events at her Tampa campaign headquarters, before rallying people to go cast ballots through […]
Ryan NicolOctober 1, 2018
4min913
More than a dozen Puerto Rican leaders across the U.S. have announced their support for Andrew Gillum‘s campaign for Governor. Gillum, the Democratic candidate in the race, currently serves as Mayor of Tallahassee. He is competing against former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee. Among Gillum’s new spate of backers are former Puerto Rico […]
Scott PowersSeptember 28, 2017
4min427
Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park proudly pushed through a bill amendment that ensured families in Puerto Rico are treated equally under the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program, and after the full bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, she touted it with a tweet, “House just passed my […]
Scott PowersNovember 3, 2016
4min2486
U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, a New York Democrat with a high profile in her native Puerto Rico, has joined Stephanie Murphy for the closing days of her campaign to help her mobilize votes in Florida’s 7th Congressional District’s sizable Puerto Rican communities. Murphy, a Democrat from Winter Park, is trying to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. […]
Scott PowersMay 18, 2016
2min381
Former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings has received the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez of New York in the Orlando-based Democratic Congressional District 10 race. Velázquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress, previously endorsed state Sen. Darren Soto in the other hotly-contested Congressional Democratic primary in Orlando, Congressional District 6. “Throughout her years […]
Scott PowersFebruary 9, 2016
2min313
State Sen. Darren Soto‘s bid to become the first Floridian of Puerto Rican descent to be elected to Congress has won the endorsement of New Yorker U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, also of Puerto Rican descent. Soto said Tuesday he has the backing of Democrat Velázquez, a 23-year House member from Brooklyn, in his Democratic bid […]