Rosario Kennedy

Rosario Arguelles y Freyre de Andrade (Rosario Kennedy) is a Cuban American politician, lawyer, advocate, and special interest lobbyist. She was the first Cuban American woman to hold any elected office in the city of Miami. 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. Currently, she is a lobbyist representing special interests in Miami, and a member of the law firm "Rosario Kennedy and Associates." In her government consulting, she claims to have "insider knowledge of the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County."

In 1997, Kennedy was involved in a situation in Miami known as "Stallone Gate," because her client was Sylvester Stallone.

In 2007, Kennedy's business paid Carey-Schuler $75,000. 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.

Biography Rosario Kennedy is from a high-class Cuban family.

In 1985, Governor Bob Graham appointed her to the Hospital Cost Containment Board, which has regulatory authority over hospitals' budgets, and was elected chairperson by her peers. She founded the South Florida Women's Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Center. She created "United Against Crime", an organization that purchased non-budgeted items for the Police Department.

She then ran for the City of Miami Commission against the incumbent, Demetrio Perez. She won that election and was later elected by her peers on the commission as Vice Mayor of Miami.

In 1987, Rosario and David Kennedy divorced.

In 1989, after the death of Claude Pepper, Kennedy resigned her commission seat to run for the Florida's 18th Congressional seat. She lost in the Democratic primary to Gerald Richman, who would eventually lose to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.