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Melquíades Rafael Ruiz Martínez (born October 23, 1946) is a Cuban-American lobbyist and former politician who served as a United States senator from Florida from 2005 to 2009 and as general chairman of the Republican Party from November 2006 until October 19, 2007.
Republican Mel Martínez, the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was elected to the Senate in 2004, defeating Democrat Betty Castor, the former president of the University of South Florida and former Florida Education Commissioner, by 82,663 votes, 49.4% to 48.3%.
The primary elections were held on August 31, 2004. Republican Mel Martínez won the open seat with 49.4% of the vote to Democratic nominee Betty Castor's 48.3%. With a margin of 1.1%, this election was the closest race of the 2004 Senate election cycle. This was the first open-seat United States Senate election in Florida for this seat since 1974.
State Senate State House U.S. Senator (Class I) U.S. Senator (Class III) U.S. House; 2003 Jeb Bush (R) Toni Jennings (R) Charlie Crist (R) Tom Gallagher (R) Charles H. Bronson (R) 26R, 14D 81R, 39D Bill Nelson (D) Bob Graham (D) 18R, 7D Bush/ Cheney (R) 2004 2005 84R, 36D Mel Martínez (R) 2006 85R, 35D [z] 2007 Charlie Crist (R) Jeff Kottkamp ...
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Two years ago, the Republican incumbent – former Florida State and pro footballer Corey Simon – flipped the district Democrats held for more than 100 years into the red column.
CREW had previously filed a similar complaint concerning a Bacardi fundraising event for Republican Senator Mel Martinez, an event that raised as much as $60,000 for Martinez's campaign. The amended complaint alleged that, on both occasions, Bacardi violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations by soliciting contributions from ...
Florida state Sen. Lauren Book and former Broward County Commissioner Barbara Sharief face off in the race for the new Senate District 35, in the most closely watched Democratic primary in the state.