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  Cash woes force Perez to leave mayor's race
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Last EditedQbanito  May 28, 2004 06:39am
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News DateWednesday, May 19, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionSchool Board member Marta Perez dropped out of the Miami-Dade mayoral race Tuesday, citing an inability to raise enough money to compete with better-funded opponents.

''The life blood of any campaign is money, and I have been unable to raise the kind of money necessary,'' she told a room full of supporters at the Renaissance at the Gables in Miami, ``in part because the county's campaign finance reform ordinance is not effective and has not solved the problem of check-bundling by power brokers.''

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