Mel Martinez
U.S. Senate Candidate
The following is excerpted from a U.S. Senate campaign speech delivered by Mel Martinez at the Municipalities of Cuba in Exile in Miami, Florida, on February 6, 2004. Martinez served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from January 2001 to December 2003. (He was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 2, 2004.)Today is a very special day for me. Forty-two years ago, I arrived in this great country, alone on the Pan American flight that arrived in the afternoon flight. I was 15. I arrived alone, but with faith in God and the hope to be able to…
