Here’s a run-down of the races we were watching. In some, the immigration issue played a role—or failed to; in others, immigrant voters’ voices were heard. More details to come later on some of the major stories. (All results from NYTimes.com, unless linked elsewhere.) Texas 22: Republican Pete Olson beat Democratic incumbent Rep. Nick Lampson, [...]
Tag Archives: Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Quick Hit: News 21 Video on Mother Jones
November 1, 2008 – 5:57 pm
As Rep. Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart campaigns come down to the wire in the Miami area, all eyes are on the non-Cuban Latinos who might swing the races to the Democrats for the first time in decades. Mother Jones has posted a video that was part of the Elizabeth Méndez Berry and Don Duncan’s News [...]
This Time, South Florida Elections Are Not About Cuba
November 1, 2008 – 2:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAC9ucoO-kQ As News 21 discovered last summer, the long-running Diaz-Balart dynasty seems to be coming to an end. Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, both conservative Republicans, have held their South Florida Congressional seats for years, largely on the basis of their tough-on-Cuba stance. The brothers are losing their appeal, however, as their constituencies come to be [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 9/13
September 13, 2008 – 12:35 pm
More than 50 people were arrested by ICE during a raid at a Southern California bakery. Authorities are saying that company supervisors extorted money from the undocumented workers in return for guaranteeing them jobs. Sixty-five people were arrested in an immigration raid on a candle-making plant in Arizona, carried out by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe [...]
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart in Danger of Losing His Seat, New Poll Shows
September 1, 2008 – 4:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmPBSkqrPBc Lincoln Diaz-Balart has reached out to Latino voters on behalf of John McCain. Polls show he has his own problems to worry about. A new poll commissioned by Roll Call shows Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla. 21) losing 46 to 48 percent against Democratic challenger Raul Martinez, in what’s shaping up to be an era-changing [...]
Changing the Political Game in Miami
August 21, 2008 – 10:53 am
When News21 producers Don Duncan and Elizabeth Mendez-Berry traveled to to Miami in order to investigate shifts in the Latino community, what they found was that Cuban voices are no longer the only Hispanic ones in Miami politics. As part of the upcoming elections there, local politicians are focused on campaigning in Colombian and Nicaraguan [...]
