Maurice Ferre hasn’t been the mayor of Miami for a while, but his passion for politics and serving the people of Florida has been his life’s focus. As the most recent democratic candidate to enter the U.S. Senate race, Mr. Ferre certainly has the experience to get the job done.
The question is, does he have the money?
His $130k in donations thus far are going to have to work pretty hard to make a dent in the $3.7 M Meek has raised.
Maurice Ferre was Mayor of Miami from 1973-1985
Being the underdog is nothing new for Ferre, however. He’s been working on balancing Florida’s budget for almost 25 years.
During an exclusive interview just for the Yovia community. Mr. Ferre passionately described how the youth of Florida are the key to economic recovery.
There are 2 million people unemployed in Florida and [there are lot's of students] not even graduating from high-school, let alone college. Plus, Florida is donor state (we pay more to the Federal government than we receive.
These are both 2 of Maurice’s top issues.
Ferre plans to run a grass-roots campaign and is compiling his official position statements for bloggers to read and ask questions directly on Facebook.
His final comments to us:
“I challenge Mr. Meek to name one thing he’s accomplished. I want to know one thing that he [spearheaded] and got completed during his last 8 years in Washington.”
Thus far the Meek campaign has not responded.
