Cuban American fights for Senate seat in New Jersey

Posted on: September 15th, 2006
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Menendez’s effort to retain the seat is turning into an unexpectedly close and increasingly contentious contest.

“Since January, Cubans here and in South Florida have boasted of having two U.S. senators with Cuban ties — one a Republican, one a Democrat, both of them staunchly anti-Fidel Castro.

Republican Sen. Mel Martinez became the first-ever Cuban-American senator, elected out of Florida in 2004. New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez — the son of Cuban immigrants — joined the Senate in January, appointed to the post.”

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