Showing posts with label Raul Martinez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raul Martinez. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Esquire Shuns The Diaz-Balart Brothers

Esquire got into the political endorsement game in its recent issue, and some incumbents in Congress who are seeking re-election perhaps wished the magazine hadn''t. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Alcee Hastings were among the eight members of the Florida Congressional Delegation who failed to win the magazine's endorsement.
The Diaz-Balart brothers drew the editors' ire for failing to move beyond their apparent political reason for being: Fidel Castro........here

What kind of impact the men's magazine endorsement will have is anybody's guess.
The Diaz Balart brothers are in tight races and could be swept out of office in a landslide Democratic vote.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Cry foul: Lincoln Diaz-Balart won't debate Raul Martinez

Sorry, little mistake in the headline. Replace the word foul with fowl, for chicken. That should be the modifier for Lincoln Diaz-Balart, who's not up to the challenge of meeting his challenger in the debate arena..........here

Monday, September 15, 2008

Debates On Between Raul Martinez And Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Oct. 8 and Oct. 31, the dates for debates between Democratic challenger Raul Martinez and
Republican rubber-stamp Lincoln Diaz-Balart......here

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Lincoln Diaz-Balart Is In The Fight Of His Political Life

One of three Cuban-American Republican incumbents who Democrats are targeting in South Florida this year, is in the fight of his political life, according to a new poll conducted exclusively for Roll Call. In a head-to-head matchup with Raul Martinez (D), the colorful and controversial former mayor of Hialeah, Diaz-Balart received 46 percent while the Democrat garnered 48 percent.......here

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The South Florida Trifecta

Will Democratic challengers in the three "Cuban" congressional districts of South Florida loosen the stranglehold that old-line anti-Castroism has had on presidential politics and Cuba policy? That's a question that can be answered only in the byzantine maze of Little Havana politics.......here