ONE Candidate We Can Help Win

This is the first in a series of blog entries introducing candidates I support.

Maria Elvira Salazar is the Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in Florida's 27th District. She's a Hispanic woman and a lifetime native of the district she seeks to represent. The district's Republican Congresswoman is retiring and the Democrats believe that former Clinton administration official, Donna Shalala can take the district into the Democratic column. 

Shalala who is not a native of the district has been president of the University of Miami, but has little other connection with the district.  She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1941 which makes her 77 years old.  She has longtime ties to the Clintons, serving as Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton, and later serving as president of the Clinton Foundation for about two years.

Salazar, at 56, is a longtime journalist who graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A. and from Harvard with a Master's in Public Administration.  Although she has not served in any elected positions in national government, she served as White House and Pentagon correspondent for Univision, the Spanish language television network, and is the only Spanish language journalist to have interviewed Cuban leader Fidel Castro one-on-one.

Currently, Salazar and Shalala are "neck-and-neck" in their race.  I am giving my endorsement to Salazar and encourage everyone to support her candidacy. She is young, energetic, a native of her district, and a cultural native of the community she will represent. Visit her website to learn more and to contribute to her campaign at: https://mariaelvira.com/about/