Rick Scott’s Top Latino Fundraiser Leaves Campaign After Campaign Staff Allegedly Made Racist Jokes

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Rick Scott’s Top Latino Fundraiser Leaves Campaign After Campaign Staff Allegedly Made Racist Jokes
BY ADAM PECK ON MARCH 24, 2014 AT 10:46 AM


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Tensions between Scott’s campaign staff and Fernandez had been building for weeks. And the last straw, according to people within the campaign who spoke with the Miami Herald this weekend, was an incident in which several of Scott’s campaign staffers allegedly began joking around in a cartoonish, over-the-top Mexican accent while on the way to a Mexican restaurant.

Fernandez, who is Cuban, reportedly shot off an angry email to campaign leadership after word of the incident leaked out. In statements made to the press following his departure, he didn’t address the controversy at all, instead pointing to disagreements with the direction of the campaign and shouldering some of the blame himself.

But the charges of racism by members of his staff comes at a delicate time for Scott, who has been on something of an Hispanic outreach kick in recent weeks. He came out in favor of allowing in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants earlier this month, and selected Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his lieutenant governor in January, the first time a Latino has held that position in Florida.

Complaints of racial insensitivity by people in his employ could further undermine Scott’s efforts to attract more Hispanic voters in November. Republicans on the national and state level have been very public about their minority outreach in states like Florida, where non-white voters make up a huge percentage of the eligible voter population, but they continue to alienate even their own minority employees.


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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/03/24/3417977/rick-scott-hispanic-fundraiser/#

[arcane1]

1. These idiots will never grasp "outreach" when they still can't comprehend INreach!

[lunasun]

2. but they continue to alienate even their own minority employees.

Clueless!
cant even fake it til election

[Hoyt]

3. They don't care, crud like that gets out the right/white wing vote.

[leftyohiolib]

4. is he completely clueles, what did he expect

[William769]

5. Rick Scott has single handedly screwed the people of Florida that are on Medicaid.

He not only refused the Money from the Federal Government to expand Medicaid, he is moving Medicaid into HMO's June 1st.

Anybody remember where he made his fortune? Well if you guessed the major HMO that failed you would be correct.

What a piece of shit he is.