GOP Lock on Cuban Exile Vote Challenged

[Judi Lynn]

GOP Lock on Cuban Exile Vote Challenged
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ – 6 days ago

MIAMI (AP) — For more than two decades, the Diaz-Balart brothers have represented South Florida, first in the Legislature and then in Congress, fighting to maintain the nation's hard-line stance toward Cuba.

The two come from a prestigious Cuban family with four generations in public service. Their father once frequented the exclusive American Club in Havana with his friend, then brother-in-law and later enemy, Fidel Castro.

In many ways, they have symbolized the face of Florida's Cuban-American exile community — Republican and ferociously anti-Castro — and have gone virtually unchallenged. Until now.

For the first time, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, 53, seeking a ninth term in the U.S. House, and his brother Mario, 46, seeking a fourth, face serious challenges from a different kind of Cuban-American, two Democrats from far less illustrious families.

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Lincoln, left, Mario, right back row, behind Cuban "exile" Mel Martinez and _{Jeb Bush}



Mayor Raul Martinez, former CANF leader, Joe Garcia

[LeftinOH]

1. Nice to hear.. but its long overdue; these RW fanatics have caused a great deal

of trauma to lots of people (mostly ordinary Cubans).. all the while clutching the keys to their abuelo's old country house, thinking they will one day return triumphantly. Fools.

[Doctor_J]

2. As with any other ethnicity, people who actually worked to get

where they are are Dems, and those of blue blood (even when it runs beneath brown skin) are Repugs.