GOP megadonor pledges $2M to register Florida Latinos to help beat Trump

[malaise]

http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/09/top-florida-republican-donor-to-pump-2-million-for-hispanic-voter-registration-105631
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Mike Fernandez, the billionaire heavyweight Republican donor who says he’s voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton because he loathes Donald Trump, says he’s ready to spend as much as $2 million to an unspecified nonprofit to help register new Hispanic voters in Florida and turn them out in the election.

In giving the money, Fernandez doesn’t have to support the Democrat directly. But he knows that, for every 10 new Latinos registered to vote, at least six will probably vote against Trump. If polling trends hold and black and Latino voters turnout relative to their current registration numbers, strategists say, Clinton is likely to win Florida and therefore the White House.

“As a lifelong Republican, I cannot support a Party I no longer recognize,” Fernandez wrote in an email, saying he could not understand how the GOP “could not distance itself from a man who has taken such liberties with the facts that calling him a liar would not suffice.”

Fernandez — who backed Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential bid this cycle with his own millions and has supported comprehensive immigration reform plans that Trump has trashed — said that he has never met Hillary Clinton.

“She is far from perfect but benign in comparison to Trump,” said Fernandez. “I specially call on all Latinos to reject a man who encourages violence against you [as] he has done in Iowa and other places.”

[NightWatcher]

1. "Far from perfect but benign in comparison", says it all

It should be pretty easy for most people to figure out.

[malaise]

3. Yep that's the line that grabbed me

[NightWatcher]

5. The people who refuse to vote for Hillary because she's not perfect are similar

to someone who would burn down their house because they dislike the wallpaper in the kitchen.

[malaise]

6. Yep

Good analogy

[lpbk2713]

2. Muy interesante.

[malaise]

4. Yep

[Wednesdays]

7. Help Hillary, but also help Rubio?

Could be a wash.

[Egnever]

8. Nah I'll take that deal every day of the week and twice on sundays

The rube can only do so much as a lone senator. Trump would be disastrous.

[superpatriotman]

9. Guess that makes us 'Benigners'

Better than being a deplorable' I suppose