What If You Run and Nobody Knows?

A candidate will probably figure he's in trouble if voters at the polls have never heard his name. That seems to be the situation in which Dean Santoro finds himself.

The first-time candidate for the Florida Senate is running in District 35, which runs up eastern Miami-Dade into southern Broward counties. In Coral Gables and downtown Miami, voters seemed oblivious to his existence.

Santoro did not seem surprised, saying in a telephone interview that he ran an "underground campaign with a "very limited budget."

Lorena Estrada