Louisville Metro Cuban community has the numbers to elect Maria

Maria Rodriguez, Republican candidate for Third Congressional District

A search on the Courier-Journal on April 9, 2026, for information about Maria Rodriguez, a Republican candidate for the Third Congressional District seat, brought up strange results.

Clicking to the first page of the search results, the name ‘Maria’ was found twice.

Maria wears her hospital scrubs when she speaks to groups. She wants to be identified as a working American. She explains that her work as a trauma nurse at UofL Hospital proves that the crime rate in Louisville is not down; it is up.

She describes gangs dumping bodies out of cars at the door of the emergency room. It is the job of the medical staff to save their lives. The cars just speed off. These body dumps are never mentioned in the news.

She is concerned about the wave of socialism that is washing or flooding over the communities of America. Louisville’s approximately 65,000 Cubans know first-hand the lies that are spread to whitewash the truth— even those who have emigrated to undermine the USA, and some have.

She would like to debate Morgan McGarvey to challenge his knowledge of the opinions he espouses. He has no concept what he is helping to establish here.

Maria entered the US legally with her family. It took them 11 years of waiting for all the channels and paperwork to facilitate their immigration. She demands that all immigrants learn to speak English.

She loves America and has adjusted her work schedule to accommodate her run for Congress.

In Cuba she and her family were called ‘worms’ because they were members of the opposition. She was not allowed educational opportunities and her family was very poor. All that changed in the USA which she calls The Greatest Country on Earth.

Other Cubans at the meeting agreed and warned that there is no other country on earth like the USA, so there is nowhere to run; we must fight the communists here, and win. These patriots plan to make known to the Cuban community which Metro Council members and political candidates are voting socialism into Louisville.

If Maria can rally her fellow Cubans, she has a formidable voting bloc. Her campaign website is MariaForUScongress.com.

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