Carlos Curbelo (politician)

Carlos Curbelo (2015)

Carlos Curbelo (* 1. March 1980 in Miami , Florida ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2015 to 2019 he represented Florida's 26th Congressional constituency in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1998 Carlos Curbelo graduated from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in Miami. He then studied at the University of Miami . Then he worked as a private businessman. Between 2009 and 2011 he was on the staff of US Senator George LeMieux .

In the 2014 election , Curbelo was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 26th  Congressional constituency in Florida , where he succeeded Democrat Joe Garcia on January 3, 2015 , whom he won with 52% against 48% of the vote had beaten. He was a member of the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce , the United States House Committee on Small Business, and the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure . He also sat on a total of seven sub-committees.

In the election in 2016 he was confirmed in the mid-term election of Donald Trump's presidential in November 2018 he lost to the Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell , the health policy was the center of their election campaign. He resigned at the end of the 115th Congress on January 3, 2019.

Curbelo was named as a possible mayoral candidate in Miami Dade . The Miami Herald reported in August 2019 that Curbelo had spent nearly $ 400,000 of his campaign contributions in Congress in the past two years on political advice from a business friend who had no political experience. With this, Curbelo founded a start-up company after the election defeat.

Web links

Commons : Carlos Curbelo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Carlos Curbelo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Curbelo at Vote Smart (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Alex Daugherty: Curbelo's campaign and office paid $ 390K to a friend who is now his business partner. In: The Miami Herald , August 2, 2019.