After all Florida voters’ Vote-by-Mail requests were canceled in 2022, advocacy groups are sounding the alarm about the harm to “a key piece of Florida’s democracy.
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In 2022, as Communications Director of Floridians for Honest Lending, I helped organize several press conferences with elected officials to publicize available relief funds for homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages from the American Rescue Plan. These press conferences achieved thousands of dollars in earned media.
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I wrote this press release as communications director for Floridians for Honest Lending. It urged a consumer-focused approach to property insurance relief and promoted a series of videos we produced with FAIR. It resulted in an article in Florida Politics entitled: "Consumer advocates push accountability for bad actors, assistance for homeowners ahead of Special Session"
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In spring 2022, I helped organize a series of press events to publicize relief funds available to Florida homeowners through the American Rescue Plan.
One of these events was a press conference on May 9, 2022, with Congresswoman Lois Frankel and local state leaders and constituents in West Palm Beach. The earned media through local TV coverage was over $79,000 according to Critical Mention.
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On Monday, January 31st, State Senator Ileana Garcia (SD 37) and State Rep. Juan Fernandez-Barquin (HD 119) will hold an event in the Capitol with affected homeowners and fair lending advocates, announcing new legislation designed to protect Floridians from predatory foreclosure practices from lenders and banks.
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Opportunity For All Floridians sent this press release to news outlets in the Orlando area, after conducting a series of interviews with everyday Floridians who were struggling to make ends meet because they couldn’t get the state’s unemployment system to pay them the benefits they were owed. This press outreach resulted in several local news stories.
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This week, Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled his legislative priorities for his special session taking aim at what he termed “unconstitutional” vaccine mandates. The legislative package included a proposal that would expand unemployment benefit eligibility to those not complying with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In response, unemployed Floridians who are still waiting for their own benefits spoke out about the current system. “The system is still broken,” several of them said. “What about us?”
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Recent data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey shows that there are more than 6.3 million households in the United States that are not current on their mortgage payments, and nearly 300,000 of those are in the state of Florida.
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Floridians for Honest Lending issued the following press release to call attention to an egregious case of an elderly man facing the prospect of losing his home over a $20 accounting error.
Read MoreMIAMI-DADE, FL: After Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R, FL-25) signed an amicus brief joining Texas’s lawsuit that seeks to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, the Miami-Dade Democratic Party condemned his actions as frivolous and anti-democratic.
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Commissioner Levine Cava’s Historic Victory Also Marks the First Democratic Mayor of Miami-Dade in 16 Years
Miami-Dade FL: Tonight, Daniella Levine Cava can claim victory in Miami-Dade County after Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in Miami-Dade County voted in historic numbers through mail-in voting, Early Voting, and Election Day voting.
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MIAMI-DADE, FL: Today the Miami-Dade Democratic Party announced that it raised more than $3 million dollars in 2020, shattering the fundraising record it had set the year before of $607,000. This banner year fundraising has provided the party with the resources to invest in robust organizing throughout the county and support local candidates in key races.
Read MoreMike Bloomberg and Miami-Dade County Democratic Executive Committee (DEC) announced today a $500,000 contribution from Mike Bloomberg to strengthen canvassing and Get Out the Vote efforts across the county.
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Miami, FL: Today the Miami-Dade Democratic Party launches its Haitian American Radio campaign. A combination of 320 interviews and commercials will air across 4 Haitian American radio stations beginning on Friday, September 25 and running until Election Day. The campaign will be voiced by North Miami Vice Mayor Alix Desulme and Haitian American radio personality Herntz Phanord, and will air on WQVN 1360 AM Radyo Pep La, WLQY 1320 AM Radio Tout Mou’n Jwen, WSRF 1580 Radio Haiti Amerique International, and WJCC 1700 AM Radio Mega.
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Nearly two weeks after Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell accepted three invitations to debate (two in Spanish, one in English), Carlos Gimenez has been in hiding.
Read MoreMIAMI, FL — Today, September 21 at 11:00 AM ET, the Miami Dade Democratic Party will host a press conference to demand that the Republican party immediately and actively condemn and combat the increasingly outrageous misinformation meant to scare and mislead voters — whether it's spread by Republican candidates, outside groups, or anonymous sources online.
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The Miami-Dade Democratic Party has endorsed Luisa Santos for School Board in District 9.
Ms. Santos moved to Miami from Bogota, Colombia when she was eight and thanks to Miami-Dade County Public Schools, was speaking fluent English by nine. During her junior year at Coral Reef Sr. High, Luisa discovered she was undocumented. She persisted — starting her higher education at Miami Dade College and eventually becoming a proud U.S. citizen.
Read MoreMIAMI-DADE, FL: On September 11, 2020, El Nuevo Herald printed an insert called “Libre” filled with vile, racist and anti-semitic claims. Among the many disgusting comments included in this insert were comparisons of American Jews to Castro’s “New Men,” accusations that American Blacks had betrayed Martin Luther King, and much more. While the publisher has apologized for these statements, leaders from Miami-Dade Democratic Party believe that the publisher must do much more to repair its relationship with the community.
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Miami-Dade, Fla. - Today, the Miami-Dade Dade Democratic Party released its second television ad in the County Mayor’s race titled “Vision.” The ad will be backed by a $250,000 Spanish & English broadcast and cable buy to share Daniella Levine Cava’s vision with Miami-Dade voters.
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Today, the Miami-Dade Dade Democratic Party released its first digital ad in the County Mayor’s race titled, “Shady Steve Bovo”. The ad will be backed by an initial five-figure digital buy to share with voters of Miami-Dade County who Steve Bovo truly is and his dangerous record.
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