Charlie Crist Draws Fire From Carlos Lopez-Cantera on Cuba

Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera is increasingly going on the attack as he looks to defend Gov. Rick Scott against former Gov. Charlie Crist, the favorite in next months Democratic gubernatorial primary. Having hit Crist earlier in the week on his economic record, Lopez-Cantera went after the new Democrat on Wednesday for supporting more ties to Cuba.

While Gov. Scott has been building upon the 600,000 jobs created under his term and sharing his vision to grow Jobs for the Next Generation this week, the only jobs plan Charlie Crist has offered is for Florida to do business with Cuba, a state sponsor of terror, Lopez-Cantera said on Wednesday. Despite the Castro brothers increased repression of the Cuban people, orchestration of Nicolas Maduros brutal actions in Venezuela, and growing relationship with Vladimir Putin, Charlie Crist's continued advocacy for greater engagement with the Cuban dictatorship exposes a flippant and shallow attitude that is not only a very worrisome world view, but it is not in Floridas best interest."