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In this Too-Close-To-Call State Senate Race, Affordable Housing and Local Control are Key Issues at the Ballot Box

With half of the 40 seats in the Florida Senate up for grabs on Election Day, a hotly contested race in District 38 is one that pollsters predict will go down to the wire – and could end in Miami sending a new senator to Tallahassee.

This race features incumbent Sen. Alexis Calatayud, a 33-year-old Republican who just served her first term in office, being challenged by Richard Lamondin, a 39-year-old father and CEO of ecofi, a sustainability company which focuses on reducing energy and water usage in buildings around the country.

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Former Florida senator convicted in ‘ghost candidates’ scandal

Former Florida state Sen. Frank Artiles was convicted by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court jury on Monday evening, the latest fallout from the state’s 2020 “ghost candidates” scandal.

Artiles was convicted on three felony counts related to $44,000 in payments he made to Alex Rodriguez, a no-party candidate whose role was to siphon votes from Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, the Democratic incumbent.

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