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South Florida mayor confronts Marco Rubio on climate change at NH town hall

Mitch PerryFebruary 5, 20161min

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Last month, a bipartisan group of 15 mayors in the South Florida region released a letter to Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, asking both Miami-based GOP presidential candidates to meet with them regarding the risks that climate change presents to their communities.

One of those mayors, Pinecrest Village’s Cindy Lerner, confronted Rubio at a town hall meeting Thursday night in Salem. Lerner is part of a group organized to challenge the Florida GOP candidates on climate change organized by the group ClimateTruth.org. You can watch that exchange here:

 

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Mitch Perry

Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served five years as political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. Mitch also was assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley and is a San Francisco native who has lived in Tampa since 2000. Mitch can be reached at [email protected].

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