A.G. Gancarski
Rick Scott’s challenger this year is calling his bluff when it comes to his second language.
In a media release Wednesday, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign formalized its request for a “Spanish language statewide televised debate hosted in Florida to address the issues important to the Latino community in Florida and meet as many voters as possible where they are.”
Nearly 30% of Floridians are Hispanic.
“For the last 14 years, extremist Rick Scott has tried to rob women of their freedoms, seniors of their Social Security and Medicare, and working families of opportunities to get ahead,” said the Democratic nominee.
“It’s past time that he answers to the Floridians who continue to suffer under an affordability crisis he created, all while he wrote the plan to raise taxes on the middle class and made hundreds of millions of dollars overseeing the largest Medicare fraud our country has ever seen. I hope Rick Scott has the courage to meet me on the debate stage to have this important conversation in English and in Spanish.”
Scott learned Spanish as Governor from Jeri Bustamante, a trusted aide of his who was beloved through Florida politics. He has also spent time and treasure this cycle building various Latino coalitions to support his campaign.
But he has never been called upon to debate in Spanish before.
Mucarsel-Powell is open to debates on WPBF in West Palm Beach, WFLA in Tampa, and WJXT in Jacksonville, encompassing South, Central, and North Florida.
Scott’s campaign is still considering committing to those options and/or a Spanish language debate.
22 comments
Foghorn Leghorn
September 4, 2024 at 8:15 am
Sounds like Debbie is getting desperate.. Hey Debbie how about a debate in Creole? Lots of Haitians here in Florida. Do they have political debates in English in Ecuador?
Foghorn Leghorn
September 4, 2024 at 8:35 am
Debbie, your espanol stuff will work on Calle Ocho, but it won’t fly with the majority in this state. The official language of world commerce is English.
FLPatriot
September 4, 2024 at 9:25 am
Hey po tato. It is about reached everyone. Scott claims to want the hispanic vote by pandering to them. Then let them debate in Spanish. Get down to really talking to them.
Foghorn Leghorn
September 4, 2024 at 10:03 am
Disagree to ma to. This is a racist move by Debbie. Vote for the person that speaks Spanish. Vote for the Latina. Don’t vote for the white guy that might not be fluent in our language. If you live in the United States you should at least attempt to learn Englush. There are people that have been here for most of their lives and don’t speak a lick of it.
Yrral
September 4, 2024 at 10:13 am
Si Ella Puede
ScienceBLVR
September 4, 2024 at 2:29 pm
Y una mujer los guiara’!
Tom
September 4, 2024 at 10:25 am
“If you live in the United States you should at least attempt to learn Englush.”
Okay then – off you go.
Foghorn Leghorn
September 4, 2024 at 10:26 am
Ha! Ha! Well you got me there. Too bad there is no edit feature. Now here comes the Tennessee slum lord 🤣
ScienceBLVR
September 4, 2024 at 2:34 pm
Eres un idiota loco!
Alexa is Biased
September 4, 2024 at 4:08 pm
Ha! Ha! Reminds me of a story about a friend of mine. He is with a group of Hispanic people on a bus in South America. He is as gringo as they come yet fluent in espanol. A group of the. Is talking smack about the “white devil” in espanol. When they arrive at the stopping point he stands up and faces the racist idiots and dresses them down in their native tongue. He said the look on their faces was priceless.
rick whitaker
September 4, 2024 at 4:58 pm
MAGA MARK, your stupid story was like an orange turd story where he talks about things that didn’t even happen.
rick whitaker
September 4, 2024 at 5:31 pm
MAGA MARK, your comments are quite racist as usual. remember your maga motto, racism = good, woke = bad. you’ve got the maga manual memorized like a good fascist.
Alexa is Biased
September 5, 2024 at 5:47 am
I thought No Balz Walz was a weirdo. Dude you take the cake. You are weird and a stalker too. Hopefully your family took away your driver’s license because you aren’t right. Alexa agrees 🤣
rick whitaker
September 5, 2024 at 12:37 pm
MAGA MARK, you don’t have to be weird to be a maga mark, but it fits well. mark you are a weird mark for sure.
rick whitaker
September 5, 2024 at 7:56 pm
MAGA MARK, yeah, i’m weird and your not. dude get that low self-esteem thing checked. being a mark for a lame ass con, now that’s weird dude. dude you are deplorable.
Michael
September 4, 2024 at 10:03 am
Amongst people who know something, Scott is already known to be the one debating in Spanish (although apparently not fluently).
Miami Herald, August 26th….. All day every day, America’s wealthiest senator is beaming himself onto television screens around the state, telling Hispanic voters through garbled Spanish that he, Rick Scott, is fighting to protect their freedom.
David
September 4, 2024 at 12:24 pm
I don’t understand how
The people of Florida could vote for a thief like Scott you elect these morons knowing what they are
alex
September 4, 2024 at 1:15 pm
If he debates in Spanish, he will lose the debate….if he declines to debate…he loses. Go Debbie!
rick whitaker
September 5, 2024 at 12:35 pm
MAGA MARK, so you are a putin lover huh? and a scott lover too huh? as an american, i say you are a POS
MH/Duuuval
September 4, 2024 at 8:38 pm
Scott has been working the various Spanish-speaking enclaves here and in PR for years with his pidgin Spanish. Debs just wants those who were beguiled by Scott to understand his actual vacuity.
Clyde Powell
September 4, 2024 at 11:50 pm
She is only hurting herself. Bad move
MH/Duuuval
September 5, 2024 at 11:27 pm
Because you say so? Or, is there some reasonable basis for your comment?
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