A.G. Gancarski
It may be late in the game for direct mail related to the Legislative Session, but AFL-CIO front group Fight for Florida is targeting Sen. Travis Hutson anyway.
The charge: Hutson is involved in a “big government takeover,” for not opposing SB 7096.
The AFL-CIO opposes the legislation, which would tighten up requirements for petition collection for constitutional amendments.
The bill stalled out in the committee process.
An interesting coincidence: there is a Fight for Florida political committee, but it is largely funded by Northeast Florida Republican interests.
Hutson’s own Sunshine State Conservatives political committee was among them.
In short, these are two different operations. And it appears that the union front group did its best to mimic the kind of hyperbolic conservative rhetoric that so often animates these mailers.
The mailpiece serves up right-wing red meat against Hutson, a Republican from St. Johns County.
One side shows Hutson and pictures of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The avoidance of former Vice President Joe Biden, the union candidate in the early going of the 2020 Democratic Presidential scrum, may or may not be coincidental here.
The flip side makes the textual argument.
Hutson “has formed a sinister alliance with big-government ideologues through a sinister new bill that destroys your ability to fight against higher taxes, more welfare handouts, and outright attacks on your Constitutional rights.”
“Less individual liberty … less access to our government … more power for politicians” are among the charges.
