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.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2021, as the communications director for Floridians for Honest Lending, I helped to organize a number of press conferences outside the home of Ana Lázara Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez, who was a former political prisoner held in Fidel Castro’s jails before she fled to the United States in the 1980s, claimed she was the victim of mortgage fraud, and was facing foreclosure as a result. Her attorney Bruce Jacobs asserted that her mortgage papers were fraudulent because they contained illegal “robo-signed” signatures on them.
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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