Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar wants everyone to know what she’s doing in District 27. She says she is working to reduce the cost of living for families, support small business owners, create new jobs, make affordable housing more accessible and cut unnecessary government expenses.
Well, not all unnecessary government expenses.
Because the four mailers that arrived back to back in voters’ homes in recent weeks to tout Salazar’s supposed successes in Washington D.C. were “paid for by office funds authorized by the House of Representatives,” it says right under the return address. That means taxpayers paid for it.
And these arrived just as she starts to campaign for re-election in District 27.
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There is apparently no law broken here. Congress members get a budget, called a Member Representative Allowance (MRA), which includes funding for staffing, expenses and mail. Federal law also requires the reporting of “unsolicited mailings of substantially identical content to 500 or more persons” for each member per quarter.
It’s a loophole that Salazar is using to send what clearly look like campaign mailers. It could be seen as an abuse.
It’s not like she doesn’t have the available funds in her campaign account. According to the Federal Elections Commission, Salazar still had $1.2 million in hand of the $1.8 million she had raised as of March 31.
Maybe she doesn’t want to waste her own money. Because nobody believes her anymore anyway.
After CBS4’s Jim Defede called her out in January on taking credit for securing federal funding for local projects that he actually voted against, voters can’t have a lot of confidence in anything Salazar boasts. But she keeps doing it.
The mailers mention $2.5 million to expand healthcare for seniors and families, $8 million for flooding mitigation along the Miami River and in Little Havana and $3.75 million for police initiatives, for example. All those were parts of the bipartisan critical infrastructure bill that she voted against.
So not only does Maria Elvira Salazar take credit for things she tried to kill, but she does it with taxpayer money.
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” the Hispanic community votes for a Hispanic simply because they are hispanics”
Sadly you are 100 percent correct and not just in Miami but every Hispanic stronghold , . we are only screwing ourselves but most rather not see it.
Add inept Police Chiefs , city brass , etc due to unspoken affirmative action for our own .
This woman is completely useless to our districts. She does nothing for them, is obsessed with Latin American communism and dictators, and yet spends money to fly to New York to rally around convicted felon, mysogynist, rapist, pathological liar, narcissist and wannabe dictator Trump and brag about her MAGA loyalty. Her taking credit money she brings in she voted against should disqualify her. But Miami gets what it deserves if this lying opportunist stays in office this fall. Let’s hope her rivals can remove her from office. Unfortunately, her ‘dog whistle’ communism stuff and grievance too often sells down here, obscuring her pandering and lack of accomplishment. Thanks for shedding light on her again. We deserve better.
she is a maga cult member, so she believes any and all actions, be they illegal/unethical tare fne and dandy and her fellow cult members just turn a blind eye – these cubanos love them a fascist dictator as long as they get to choose who it is
Is making false statements by an official in writing to more than 500 people not against the law??
Miami deserves what it is getting. You vote communists into office because the Hispanic community votes for a Hispanic simply because they are hispanics, communist or not, they do not know any better than to simply vote for the candidate that will really do something for them. And as we all know, Miami is full of communists!!