When Republican lawyer Monique Pardo Pope announced her candidacy for the Miami Beach Commission in May , she described herself as coming from a working-class “Cuban family that believed in deep sacrifice, service of others, and standing up for what’s right.”

She omitted a rather important detail: her father was Manuel Pardo , a former police officer who murdered nine people in the 1980s, idolized Adolf Hitler and left behind newspaper clippings detailing his crimes, Nazi memorabilia and a swastika-tattooed dog.

Documentarian Billy Corben was the first to make the connection Thursday in a three-minute video that’s well worth a watch. The Miami New Times posted a report soon after.

In a statement shared with Florida Politics, Pardo Pope — one of seven candidates r

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