Carlos Lopez-Cantera Draws Fire From DSCC

National Democrats are starting to take Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera seriously as a potential U.S. Senate candidate in 2016. On Tuesday, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) hit Lopez-Cantera for bringing in Washington lawyer Charlie Spies to set up his super-PAC. Spies had set up former Gov. Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC. 

Sadie Weiner, the national press secretary for the DSCC, tried to tie Lopez-Cantera to questions about how Bush has used Right to Rise. 

“It’s no surprise that Carlos Lopez-Cantera is already flirting with the boundaries of campaign finance law even before he announces his candidacy for Senate,” Weiner said on Tuesday. “Lopez-Cantera knows that he will need his own personal super-PAC to prop up his candidacy, and it’s clear that he’s willing to push any legal boundary to boost his campaign.”