The 50th anniversary of the movie To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck, brought back to the American conscience the Atticus Finch truth: “There are times one must take a stand, even if the only reward is the chance to be on the right side of history.” After the recent Republican and Democratic primaries, Florida [...]

In 2003, while I was the student government president of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, I invited former Miami mayor Maurice Ferre – along with Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota, and Luiz Paolo Conde, mayor of Rio de Janiero – to speak at a symposium entitled ‘The City in Two Americas.’ All invitees had at [...]

Dear Ms. Abberger; It is unfortunate that we met under an unfriendly environment. I appreciate your offer to meet with me to discuss ways that Leadership Florida can improve the debate rules so that future statewide campaigns will be more open to ideas and issues than this 2010 U.S. Senate election has been. I do [...]

United States Senate Candidate  Maurice Ferre today announced that his campaign has filed suit against Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association for deliberately excluding him from its debate.  The complaint filed by Miami attorney William Pena Wells states that Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association deliberately violated their own rules to exclude Ferre [...]

Amelia Island, FL- This past weekend, U.S. Senate candidate Maurice Ferre took a bold stand in endorsing The Florida Hometown Democracy Amendment placed on the Nov. 2nd ballot as Amendment 4. He addressed crowds in both Tallahassee and Amelia Island, FL, to elaborate his position in supporting this important measure for the long term health [...]

The forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is disgraceful because it is so Un-American! That Fox News takes information and purposefully distorts truth to serve its and owner Rupert Murdoch’s right wing agenda, is not new. What is so bothersome is that biased “news” and the insertion of opinion for [...]

Dear Friends, As most of you know by now my husband, Maurice, is running for the United States Senate for the State of Florida. Maurice has had a long and brilliant political career, beginning as State Representative, City of Miami Commissioner, City of Miami Mayor for six consecutive terms, and Dade County Commissioner. Those were [...]

FLORIDIANS FOR BETTER TRANSPORTATION Transportation Summit – Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL. Wednesday July 7, 2PM Maurice Ferre, Candidate For the U.S. Senate I appreciate the opportunity to speak before this important Florida annual joint meeting of the Florida Transportation Commission (FTC) and Team Florida, Florida’s Turnpike and Expressway Authorities Association. Special thanks to Doug [...]