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One-on-one with former state Rep. Joe Saunders on Facing South Florida

By Jim DeFede

/ CBS Miami

One-on-one with Joe Saunders, who hopes to defeat controversial incumbent Fabian Basabe in District

MIAMI – Jim goes one-on-one with Joe Saunders, a former member of the Florida State House. The Democrat represented the Orlando area from 2012 to 2014. Saunders is on the November ballot, hoping to defeat incumbent Fabian Basabe in District 106. That district includes Miami Beach, North Bay Village and runs up to Aventura. Basabe has been surrounded by controversy before his time in the Florida House and during. Democrats are mounting an aggressive challenge to Basabe.

Guest: Joe Saunders/(D) Florida House Candidate

Jim DeFede

Jim DeFede joined CBS4 News in January 2006 and serves as an investigative reporter for the station, as well as host of its Sunday morning public affairs program "Facing South Florida."

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