This Week in South Florida: Ana Maria Rodriguez and Bobby DuBose
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PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Florida lawmakers wrapped up the two month legislative session with a scorecard of wins for the Governor’s big priorities, some with 11th hour strategy to get around the opposition.
Lawmakers had money to spend due to a $101 million budged flush with federal COVID-19 relief money.
Two South Florida lawmakers joined This Week in South Florida to talk about it.
State Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez is a Republican from Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, and state Rep. Bobby DuBose is a Democrat from Broward County.
They joined TWISF hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg, and that discussion can be seen at the top of this page.
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Local 10 honored for public service reporting on shill candidate and contact tracing
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Local 10 reporters Glenna Milberg (left) and Christina Vazquez are being honored for their public service reporting. (WPLG)
PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – A Local 10 News team earned runner-up honors for South Florida’s best public service reporting for exposing the shill candidate scheme in November’s election that led to two arrests.
Reporter Glenna Milberg, photographer/editor Mario Alonso and executive producer Natalie De Varona will be recognized for that work at the Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards on May 13.
The Knight Foundation highlighted their selection, writing: “Last fall, incumbent State Senator Jose Javier Rodriguez lost his senate seat by just 34 votes. When Milberg probed further, she ultimately uncovered that someone planted a shill candidate who shared Rodriguez’s last name to siphon off votes, a pattern she also found in another Florida sen
This Week in South Florida: Carlos Gimenez
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One of them is infrastructure. Basically, building things that allow communities to function.
Last week, President Joe Biden summoned a bipartisan group of lawmakers to the Oval Office, looking to bridge-build, literally and figuratively.
One of Miami-Dade County’s Republican members of Congress, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, was on the invite list.
He joined This Week in South Florida host Glenna Milberg to discuss. Their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.
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