Republican Governor-elect Byron Donalds has selected Manuel “Manny” Kadre, the chairman of the University of Miami Board of Trustees and CEO of a luxury car dealership chain, to lead his transition team.
While the business executive and Republican donor was not a high-profile surrogate of the Donalds campaign, he was spotted at a campaign retreat in Miami Beach in September, according to reporting by Florida Politics, and gave $25,000 to Donalds’ campaign that week.
Kadre had also been present at early discussions between Ken Griffin and Gov. Ron DeSantis about funding a Republican primary challenger against Donalds, according to reporting by NBC News last year. Griffin later became Donalds’ biggest campaign donor, contributing $15 million to his political committee…