Dems aiming at S. Florida GOP stronghold

[babylonsister]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/andrew_zajac_one_more_sign.html

Dems aiming at S. Florida GOP stronghold
Posted May 12, 2008 4:56 PM
The Swamp

Andrew Zajac

One more sign congressional Republicans may be in for a rough ride this election season: Democrats are fielding strong candidates in GOP breadbasket districts, like the western Miami-Dade county redoubt of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart.

Diaz-Balart cruised to victory in 2006 with nearly 59 percent of the vote, but he faces an energetic and savvy challenger in Democratic operative Joe Garcia, who is wasting no time in zinging the GOP incumbent as obsessed with Castro at the expense of bread-and-butter economic issues.

In the not-too-distant past, no Castro obsession was too strong for the rabidly anti-Fidel exile community in south Florida. But the 1960s-era generation of exiles is aging and their children and grandchildren don't always take the same rock-hard line toward Cuba.

Garcia himself has the street cred to call out Diaz-Balart on Cuba because he is a former director of the ardently anti-Castro Cuban American National Foundation.

Click here for a taste of what Garcia's throwing at the Diaz-Balart -- and at his brother, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, who occupies a neighboring seat and holds similar Cuban policy views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnWo2ieJDoI&feature=related

[KaryninMiami]

1. Too bad some of our Democratic congresspersons are not willing to help them

such as Debbie Wasserma Shultz (my congressperson)who doesn't want to rock the boat and refuses to work against Diaz-Bialart or Iliana Ros L. Turns out she's also a bigtime Hillary supporter and is demanding they seat the Florida delegates as is. Appears that Hillary's party treason has rubbed off on her. I sure hope someone runs against her next time- she needs to do be voted out of office.

[babylonsister]

2. I KNEW someone might mention her. She has certainly turned into

a disappointment. I know about her Clinton support but didn't know she won't even support the Dem in the race. What's wrong with that picture? Lots.