Today is the last day on the Miami-Dade Trump Committee for the chairman, mactrumpformer Cutler Bay Mayor Ed MacDougall. Thursday, he will fly to D.C. to start working on the national campaign’s outreach.

MacDougall will be meeting with the Republican National Committee to talk about taking his efforts with community outreach to a national scale. A former cop and Vietnam War veteran, MacDougall — who ran in the 2014 GOP primary for District 26, losing to Carlos Curbelo — has been working with state veteran organizations and other voter niches to push Donald Trump locally as the presidential candidate of choice.

“I guess they caught wind of it,” MacDougall told Ladra, adding that he will be working with the national GOP and Trump campaign staff on delivering key messages to veterans nationwide.

Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Martinez will take over as chairman of the grassroots, volunteer group. Martinez makes sense, given the demographics of the 305 electorate and the success of the local group Latinas for Trump, which have become national media darlings. But then again, we don’t know who else is on the 15-person committee.

“We are here to get Donald Trump elected, not draw attention to ourselves,” MacDougall said when Ladra asked.

Maybe it’s because I’m a member of the evil media?


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