David Rivera

David Mauricio Rivera ( born September 16, 1965 in New York City ) is an American politician. From 2011 to 2013 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Rivera, the son of Cuban immigrants, living in Florida, where he graduated from the Miami Christian High School since 1974. Then he studied until 1986 at Florida International University in Miami political science. Later, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. At times, he worked on the staff of U.S. Senator Connie Mack. In 1996 he headed in Florida 's unsuccessful presidential campaign of Bob Dole. Rivera was also a board member of the Republican Party of Florida and chairman of the Miami -Dade County. Between 2002 and 2010 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Rivera was in the 25th electoral district of Florida with 52.1 percent of the vote to Democrat Joe Garcia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the exchanged in the 21th district Mario Diaz- Balart on January 3, 2011. In Congress, Rivera was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Natural Resources, and in four sub-committees.

David Rivera repeatedly produced negative headlines. On September 6, 2002, he caused a traffic accident with a truck, which transported thousands of posters of his former political competitor to a post office. Because of the accident then the posters could not be delivered on time in the mail. His historical information on extra earnings proved to be inaccurate.

In the congressional elections in November 2012, the Democratic challenger Joe Garcia Rivera was beaten after the constituency in the wake of the rotating contemporary Neuzuschnitts according to the census of 2010 had become significantly less Republican. In addition, the Florida Ethics Commission had found in the previous month that he had violated eleven times as a member of the House of Representatives against morality ( " ethics laws violations "). On January 3, 2013 Rivera difference therefore from office.