RPOF: Alex Sink's Immigration Comments 'Narrow-Minded' and 'Insulting'

Republicans continue to pummel former state CFO Alex Sink for comments she made about immigrants at a candidate forum on Tuesday. Sink is the Democratic nominee in the special congressional election. Shell take on Republican David Jolly and Libertarian Lucas Overby on March 11.

Immigration reform is important in our country, Sink said at the forum. Its one of the main agenda items of the Beaches Chamber of Commerce for obvious reasons. Because we have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? And we dont need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.

Lenny Curry, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), went after Sink on Wednesday.

"Alex Sink's comments are as shocking as they are narrow-minded, Curry said. Floridians are people who want to work hard to make their dreams come true, and in our state no dream is out of reach. For Alex Sink to make such an implication about those who immigrate to Florida is insulting."