Direct mail round-up: In HD 113 GOP incumbent depicted as a ‘Blue Dog Progressive’
A new political committee with a name that suggests it has Democratic leanings is sending a mailer to Miami-Dade County homes touting incumbent Rep. Vicki Lopez’s bona fides as a champion for women’s reproductive rights.
The message in and of itself isn’t untruthful. Lopez voted against Florida’s 6-week abortion ban in 2023.
But the mailer from a group called Florida Blue Dog Progressives targeting Democrats in House District 113 omits a key detail: Lopez is a Republican, though you wouldn’t know by reading the mailer’s text.
“Vicki Lopez trusts women and doctors on their healthcare!” the mailer reads. “When Republican extremists waged war on women’s healthcare and our right to make decision...
