Susan Valdes decided to switch parties. Victor DiMaio is the president of the Hillsborough Democratic Hispanic Caucus. “We fight every day for Hispanics to come along to our side of the tent,” DiMaio said Rep.

Constituents are divided over Representative Susan Valdes' surprise political party switch from the Democratic party to the Republican.

Valdes, elected to the House four times as a Democrat, wrote that she didn’t expect to agree with “fellow Republicans” on every issue, but “that in their caucus, I will be welcomed and treated with respect.