RPOF Pushes Back at Florida Democrats Over Insults to Hispanics

Florida Republicans are pushing back at the Democrats over a report that Mike Fernandez, who had been Gov. Rick Scotts campaign finance co-chair, resigned due to campaign aides doing an over-the-top Mexican accent around him.

Fernandez resigned his post on Thursday night. The Miami Herald is reporting that Fernandez quit in part due to the aides behavior. The Scott team, including Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, insists that nobody on the campaign has done anything like that.

Lenny Curry, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), weighed in on Monday afternoon, insisting the Democrats have been the party treating Hispanics badly and making fun of them. Curry pointed toward congressional candidate former state CFO Alex Sinks comment at a candidate forum at the end of February that immigration reform was needed for people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping.

Curry also cited former Gov. Charlie Crists comment that politicians need to stand up to that small Cuban community in South Florida when it comes to dealing with the Castro regime.

Today I call on all Florida Democrats to condemn the myriad of actual insults that have been continually hurled at the Florida Hispanic community by members of their own party, Curry said. These comments are insulting and intolerable and they should be harshly condemned.