UPDATED: “Sex Offenders” are the new political grenade!
Want to try and blow up a political campaign? Try and toss a grenade. No, not a literal grenade – the small hand-thrown bomb – but a political grenade… an association with a “sex offender”.
“Sex offenders” have become the latest ammunition political opponents like to toss at each other in order to damage an opponents campaign. In Florida’s gubernatorial race, current Governor Ron DeSantis criticized challenger Charlie Crist’s running mate, Karla Hernández, for alleged ties to a former member of the Miami-Dade teachers union who is serving jail time for sexually assaulting students. He was quoted as saying, “They cared more about the power of their union than they did about the best interests of these kids,” he continued. “That is disgraceful. You do not put union politics ahead of middle school students who are in danger of being sexually abused. I think that’s disqualifying to be in any political office, much less Lieutenant Governor of the state of Florida.”
In return, Crist’s camp lobbed back another grenade, criticizing DeSantis for his association with a Florida Representative currently under investigation for trafficking a minor.
Who knew? We should have been endorsing candidates we don’t want in office!
UPDATED: OMG! This has risen to a new level. In Wisconsin a registrant happened to be at a campaign event for a Sheriff’s candidate and took a picture. The opponent immediately used that against him. https://empowerwisconsin.org/evers-appointed-dane-county-sheriff-photographed-partying-with-convicted-pedophile/
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It has been an issue for a while. Even in my early days of activism it was not uncommon to see pols, even presidential candidates, boast of their tough record against Registered Citizens as well as attacking the other candidate as being soft on crime or being a friend of Registered Citizens.