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With half of the 40 seats in the Florida Senate up for grabs on Election Day, a hotly contested race in District 38 is one that pollsters predict will go down to the wire – and could end in Miami sending a new senator to Tallahassee.
This race features incumbent Sen. Alexis Calatayud, a 33-year-old Republican who just served her first term in office, being challenged by Richard Lamondin, a 39-year-old father and CEO of ecofi, a sustainability company which focuses on reducing energy and water usage in buildings around the country…