Cigar maker Jose Oliva wins Florida House District 110

(MiamiHerald.com) The owner of a cigar manufacturing business beat other Republican candidates to represent House District 110, which includes Hialeah and Miami Lakes. Hialeah businessman Jose Oliva beat two other Republicans to fill a vacant seat in the Florida House in Tuesday’s special election.
... Nasty ads funded by third-party electioneering groups marked the final weeks of the heated contest. ...Citizens for a Reality Check — sent a mailer blasting Oliva as a Sandinista sympathizer because his family business grows tobacco in Nicaragua. Continued