Ex-reporter Eliott Rodriguez announces challenge to Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar

Ex-reporter Eliott Rodriguez announces challenge to Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar

Former. newsman Eliott Rodriguez is running ih Florida's CD-27. (Photo via Eliott Rodriguez for Congress)Eliott Rodriguez, an Emmy-winning South Florida journalist, announced Tuesday a challenge to incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in November. Rodriguez, a 69-year-old Cuban American television reporter, is running as a Democrat. A win would flip the seat to blue for the first time in six years. “I’ve been thinking about it for…

Battle of the TV anchors? Rodriguez enters race for Congress

Former Key Biscayne resident Eliott Rodriguez, known as a local CBS anchorman, is formally entering the race for Congress, saying he will focus on affordability as a Democrat hoping to unseat Republican Maria Elvira Salazar — also a former TV newscaster. “Too many of our children and grandchildren — including my own — are being forced to leave the community they grew up in, because the cost of living is simply too high for them to stay,” he said…