[1] She was the former Vice Mayor of the City of Miami and candidate for Florida's 18th congressional district in the 1989 special election to replace Claude Pepper that was eventually won by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
[2] Currently, she is a lobbyist representing special interests in Miami, and a member of the law firm "Rosario Kennedy and Associates.
[7] This money came from Kennedy's involvement in a proposed luxury condominium that was never built, and was the subject of a criminal investigation by the state attorney's office.
[8] If the allegations were true, this would be ironic due to the fact that Kennedy's time as a Commissioner of Miami saw the demolishment of over 400 abandoned buildings in a controversial program that she called "Rosario's Crack Attack.
[2] Her great-uncle, Mario Garcia Menocal, was President of Cuba, and she counts three uncles and cousins as former Mayors of Havana.
She founded the South Florida Women's Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Center.