In a 2016 clip uploaded to YouTube, North Miami's Democratic state Senator, Daphne Campbell, told an interviewer that her mother and father were dead. She added that her husband's parents were also dead. In fact, she said basically everyone close to her either was deceased or lived far away.

"His father and his mother died," she says just after 2:15 in the clip above. "My father and my mother died. I don't even have one family [member] in Miami here."

One year later, Campbell sent a text message that became infamous. Soon after Hurricane Irma ripped through Miami-Dade, cutting off electricity to tens of thousands, she typed a note to a Florida Power & Light lobbyist begging him to help turn the power back on at her house.