Mark Adam Foley is an American former politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served from 1995 until 2006,representing the 16th District of Florida as a member of the Republican Party,before resigning due to revelations that he had sent sexually explicit messages to teenaged boys who had served as congressional pages in what came to be known as the Mark Foley scandal.
Gustavo "Gus" Alberto Barreiro was a Republican politician from Florida. He served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 107th district in Miami-Dade County from 1998 to 2006. His district encompassed parts of Miami,Miami Beach,and Coral Gables.
JoséAntonio Garcia Jr.,known as Joe Garcia,is an American attorney and politician. Garcia represented Florida's 26th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. A Democrat,Garcia represented most of western Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys in Congress.
Ray Sansom is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing portions of Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties from 2002 to February 21,2010.
Dwayne L. Taylor is a Democratic politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 27th District from 2008 to 2012 and the 26th District,which stretches from Daytona Beach to DeLand in northern Volusia County,since 2012.
David Mauricio Rivera is an American Republican politician from Florida. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for one term,representing parts of South Florida from 2011 to 2013.
Anthony Weiner is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York City who has been involved in multiple sex scandals related to sexting.
Michael Christian Góngora is an American politician and lawyer from Miami Beach,Florida who is currently serving his third term as Commissioner of the City of Miami Beach City Commission. Gongora was first elected in 2006 and most recently in 2017. Besides his legal practice,Gongora currently serves as a legal and political analyst and is regularly featured on many Spanish networks including Telemundo,America Teve and Mira TV.
David Richardson is an American politician who served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for the 113th district from 2012 to 2018. Richardson was elected as a Miami Beach commissioner in November 2019.
Frank Artiles is a Cuban-American Republican politician from Florida. He served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing parts of Miami-Dade County from 2010 to 2016,before being elected to the Florida Senate in 2016. He resigned from the Senate on April 21,2017,after using racial slurs and other profanities against fellow senators.
Shevrin D. Jones is an American politician from the state of Florida. He was elected to the Florida State Senate in 2020 to represent the 35th District. He previously was a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 101st District,which included southeastern Broward County since 2012.
Daphne Campbell is a former Democratic member of the Florida Senate who represented the 38th district,including Miami Beach,North Miami,and other parts of northeastern Miami-Dade County,since 2016. Previously,she served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 108th district from 2010 to 2016. She was defeated by Jason Pizzo in a primary election on August 28,2018. She ran for Senate District 35 in 2020.
Kenneth "Ken" R. Kratz is a former American lawyer who served as district attorney of Calumet County,Wisconsin. He gained attention for trying a highly publicized homicide case,State of Wisconsin v. Steven Avery (2007),in which Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both convicted. The trial served as the subject of Making a Murderer (2015),a 10-episode documentary series produced by Netflix.
Martin Zilber is an American retired judge based in Miami-Dade County,Florida. He was elected to the court in 2014 for a term beginning on January 6,2015,and departed the bench in May 2021. After years of community service he is now a candidate for the city of Miami city commission.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,to elect the 27 U.S. representatives from the state of Florida,one from each of the state's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including a gubernatorial election,other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The party primaries were held on August 28,2018.
The 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals saw a heightened period of allegations of sexual misconduct,harassment and assault,and resulted in the subsequent firings and resignations of American politicians. Some of the allegations are linked to the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases starting in October 2017 amid the wider MeToo movement.
Michael Christopher Grieco is an American attorney and politician. A Democrat,Grieco served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022,representing the 113th district.
The "Baby Lollipops" murder was the murder in 1990 of three-year-old Lazaro Figueroa by his mother Ana Maria Cardona in Florida. The body of Lazaro was found abandoned,and identified through house-to-house inquiries. The case was widely covered in US media,who called the initially unidentified boy "Baby Lollipops",after the design on the T-shirt he was wearing when found.
Fabián Basabe is an American businessman and former reality television star who has served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for the 106th district since November 8,2022.
