A.G. Gancarski
Rick Scott’s Senate challenger is taking the case to him in Spanish this weekend.
“My mom brought me to the United States from Ecuador for the opportunities that only exist here,” said Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, explaining her new “The Important Things” spot.
“Those opportunities allowed me to go from working a minimum wage job to becoming the first South American immigrant in Congress and running for the U.S. Senate. But now, those opportunities are disappearing under 14 years of Rick Scott’s failed leadership. Our affordability crisis began under his leadership, but instead of lowering the costs of living, Rick Scott wrote the plan to raise taxes on the middle class, end Social Security and Medicare as we know them, and take away women’s freedoms. Rick Scott is threatening the important things for Floridians – that’s why they’ll retire him in November.”
The ad comes as new polling of the Senate race from Emerson College shows a one-point race, with Scott out front.
It also represents the challenger’s second attempt to goad Scott about Florida’s second language. She challenged Scott to a debate in Spanish, but the challenger hasn’t committed to any debates yet, regardless of the language.
She also has claimed Scott seeks to exploit the “traumas” experienced by survivors of Latin American dictatorships.
One comment
Javier
September 7, 2024 at 2:04 pm
She’s saying this in Spanish because she can’t say them in English or would get laughed out. The only thing she has going for her is that she’s not Rick Scott. But she sure thinks we’re stupid. Thanks, DMP for pointing out the problems originate under Democrat rule since 2008. Desantis and the idiot legislature put the nails in the coffin with his culture war nonsense and getting everyone from New York and California to move to Florida and turning it into a corporate welfare state but it doesn’t mean we want your insane leftist tax and spend policies either which will pretty much finish us off. No somos estúpidos. Te vemos.