Jose Javier Rodriguez
Template:TOCnestleft Jose Javier Rodriguez is a Miami based Florida state representative.
We don't need more hate in Florida
March 11 2019 at the capitol in Tallahassee a press conference was held against a new law that they want to bring the Republicans and Governor Desantis so that our police and other public employees work with immigration to stop more immigrants.
Several elected officials and people affected by our community spoke against family separation and detention of immigrants.
We don't need more hate in Florida, what we need is a permanent solution!
- NoSB168 #WeAreFl
— with Tomas Kennedy, Carlos Guillermo Smith, Jasmen M. Rogers-Shaw, Jose Javier Rodriguez, Nataly Chalco, Ida Eskamani and Charo Valero.
FLIC friend
Tomas Kennedy May 10 2019:
The Florida Immigrant Coalition family with our friend and champion Senator Jose Javier Rodriguez. — with Ivan Parra, Laura Estefania Munoz Quinones and Ivan Noltenius at Florida Immigrant Coalition.
Supporting Jose Javier Rodriguez
Tomas Kennedy, April 4 2018;
The real progressive in the CD27 race is Jose Javier Rodriguez! Whether he is fighting against electricity monopolies like FPL, standing up for immigrants, protecting our environment, or defending labor unions, he can be counted on to be on the right side of the issues. Vote for him. — attending Miami for Jose Javier: Fundraiser and Volunteer Kick-Off with Patrick Hidalgo, Laura Estefania Munoz Quinones, Maria Asuncion Bilbao and Mahrye Perez at 1306 Miami.
NFM 2020 endorsements
The New Florida Majority is proud to endorse Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the following local candidates:
Donna Deegan – Congressional District 4, Javier Fernandez – Florida Senate District 39, Omari Hardy – Florida House District 88, Pam Keith – Congressional District 18, Gepsie Metellus – Miami-Dade County Commission District 3, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell – Congressional District 26, Harold Pryor – Broward State Attorney, Tammyette Thomas – Florida House District 15
“We are fortunate to have a sizeable slate of phenomenal candidates up and down the ballot for this year’s elections. Our work is driven by Black and Brown communities and our decision to endorse these strong, prospective candidates is rooted in the dreams and demands of our most marginalized communities. We believe these candidates are ready and eager to use their political power to take us from Florida where we are to the Florida we most want to see. We are excited about the work ahead,” said NewFM Political Director Dwight Bullard.
These new endorsements are in addition to affirming seven previously endorsed candidates including Daniella Levine Cava (Miami-Dade County Mayor), Nicole Hamm (Jacksonville City Council 4), Eileen Higgins (Miami-Dade County Commission District 5), Shevrin Jones (SD 35), Nancy Metayer (Coral Springs Commission Seat 3), Rep. Cindy Polo (HD 103) and Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez (SD 37).[1]
New Florida Majority support
South Florida Democratic candidates who had no reason to expect victory are preparing to be sworn in to office now thanks to the votes of people whom the pollsters largely ignored: unlikely voters.
One election post-mortem from the liberal nonprofit America Votes suggests unlikely voters cast 34 percent of the early and mail-in absentee votes during this election, propelling liberal Democrats such as Jose Javier Rodriguez of Miami and State Senator Maria Sachs of Boca Raton unexpectedly to the winners' circle.
An unlikely voter, says America Votes Florida director Josh Geise, is one who scores below 80 on a zero-to-100 scale of voting history, age, ethnicity, neighborhood and other factors that measure the propensity for voting. The likely voter model in use by several polling organizations uses only three elements: voting history, the voter's self-described intention to vote and his or her enthusiasm for the campaign.
The task for Democratic ground-gamers was to goad the unlikelys out of their torpor and campaigners say Republican legislators and Gov. Rick Scott made that easy with the voting law they passed in 2011.
"The (voter roll) purges, the crackdown on early voting -- all those things that were an attempt to make those voters even less likely to vote -- those things really ticked people off," says Gihan Perera, who runs the political nonprofit New Florida Majority. FNM staff and volunteers made calls and knocked on doors for Rodriguez, Sachs and other Democrats around the state.
FNM also contributed manpower and data to winning Democratic Senate candidates Dwight Bullard of Miami and Darren Soto of Orlando.[2]
Tuition equality
UF student organizations including CHISPAS, the Hispanic Student Association, Students for a Democratic Society at UF and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture have been collecting signatures before they present the petition to UF President Bernie Machen on Oct. 17 2013.
UF Student Government sponsored the UF Immigration Reform Symposium circa October 15, which featured a conversation with Sen. Darren Soto and Sen. Dwight Bullard about the importance of tuition equality for undocumented students.
“Right now, there is no policy regarding immigration or tuition equity for students,” said Liana Guerra, a 20-year-old political science and economics junior. “It’s important to start at UF with this petition, but ultimately, we want to make changes in the state legislature.”[3]
Thankyou to Senators Darren Soto, Dwight Bullard, Representative Jose Javier Rodriguez, UF Florida representative Jamal Sowell, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Gators for Tuition Equity, CHISPAS UF and AIR.
Progressive Latinos
On October 23, 2014 Juan Cuba Jose Javier Rodriguez and Mariano Corcilli, all Latino candidates for office, took part in a New Florida Majority sponsored forum "The New Latinos."
Congress?
State Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez of Miami announced June 2017 will run for Florida’s 27th Congressional District now that longtime U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is calling it quits after next year.
Rodriguez joins a crowded Democratic primary field, but party insiders are abuzz about his chances because of his record and because 65 percent of the voters in the congressional district are registered to vote in Florida’s 37th Senate District, which Rodriguez currently represents.
“It’s the right time to run and to represent this district in Congress,” said Rodriguez, who first announced his candidacy in his hometown paper, The Miami Herald. “A lot of the issues of my district are relevant to the congressional seat: healthcare, tax policy and the environment, especially sea-level rise.”
A Cuban-American, Harvard-educated lawyer, the 38-year-old Rodriguez has displayed a knack for winning elections against tough Republican opponents. He beat former state Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla in a 2012 state House race and then beat his brother, state Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, last year in an expensive state Senate race.
What’s more: Rodriguez’s state Senate term doesn’t expire until 2020. So he can campaign next year without quitting his state Senate seat because the Legislature did not change the resign-to-run statute for state office holders seeking a federal post.
"Unless there's some huge problem, Jose is the next congressman from the district. He checks all the boxes," said one top Florida Democrat, summing up the mood of other consultants and insiders.
Rodriguez has also married into political royalty in Miami. His wife, Sonia Succar Rodriguez, is the granddaughter of Maurice Ferre, Miami’s first Hispanic mayor and the first Puerto Rican-born mayor in the United States. Ferré’s daughter-in-law, Helen Aguirre Ferre, is an adviser to President Trump and director of White House media affairs.[4]