A.G. Gancarski
Rick Scott’s Senate challenger is taking the case against 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.
11 comments
PeterH
September 7, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Rick Scott and our other do-nothing Republican “representatives” in Washington are solely responsible for the immigration crisis at the Southern border. The president has no authority to write strong immigration legislation…..ONLY CONGRESS IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE LAW FOR THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO FOLLOW.
Rick Scott and every Republican in Congress has failed us.
Republicans are America’s worst enemy!
Vote all Republicans out of office.
MH/Duuuval
September 9, 2024 at 10:46 pm
Rick Scott spent millions drug testing unemployed compensation applicants to cut down on unemployment compensation supporting drug habits. The effort was ruled unconstitutional, and the effort failed to locate any real measurable abuse of unemployment claims.
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.
MH/Duuuval
September 7, 2024 at 3:54 pm
In any other state of the union, being Rick Scott would be sufficient to lose an election. His primary appeal to the Latin community in Florida is his anti-communist rhetoric — completely ignoring the reality that any commie who sought power would have to run for office.
I don’t know why you are crying since Florida has no income tax. That’s a major reason why we’re getting rich raff moving here and old-time po folk struggling.
The culture war you lament that is being waged by MAGAs in lieu of dealing with serious issues is having the ultimate effect of alienating women voters who are unlikely to vote for Rick. Check out the registration numbers per gender.
Yrral
September 7, 2024 at 9:05 pm
Google Rick cometio fraude a Medicare,MAGA this translate Google Rick Scott Medicare Fraud
otoh
September 12, 2024 at 5:59 pm
Nearly half of the state’s 9 million households are now unable to afford basic living expenses. One reason so many Florida families are struggling is that the state has the most unfair tax code in the country — one that takes far more money from the working and middle class than it does from the very wealthy.
—-United Way; Jason Garcia “Seeking Rents Podcasts”
Alexa is Biased
September 7, 2024 at 2:58 pm
You can take an Ecuadorian out of Ecuador but you can’t take the Ecuadorian out of her. Bye bye socialist. 🤣
Cindy's
September 9, 2024 at 9:12 am
What does Rick Scott threaten. Escapee’s coming across the border. Parental abandonment and sever neglect
MH/Duuuval
September 9, 2024 at 9:17 am
Translated: forced family separation and mass deportation.
Alexa is Biased
September 10, 2024 at 12:26 pm
Debbie doing ads in Espanol. Hey Debbie, go hang out on Calle Ocho and Cafe Versailles. Maybe just maybe you won’t get rolled in Dade County.🤣
MH/Duuuval
September 10, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Miami anti-Castro Cubans don’t like what you say, they shout you down and attempt to physically intimidate you.
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