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TALLAHASSEE -- Before he abruptly resigned as a top fund-raiser for Gov. Rick Scott, health care executive Mike Fernandez complained to top Scott advisers about a homogeneous team of campaign advisers who dont understand the culture of Hispanic voters he needs to win re-election.
Fernandezs politically explosive complaints were in an email he sent last month that foreshadowed his abrupt resignation last Thursday as co-finance chairman of Scotts re-election effort. A billionaire owner of and investor in health care plans, Fernandez remains a strong Scott supporter, and hosted a $25,000-per-couple fund-raiser at his Coral Gables mansion Monday that featured 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
But the aftershocks of Fernandezs resignation are a major distraction for Scotts campaign and underscore a key part of the Democrats opposition strategy: that Republicans cant relate to Hispanic voters. The most explosive part of Fernandezs Feb. 20 email was his claim, first reported in the Miami Herald, that two Scott campaign aides imitated a Mexican accent.
When Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera said Monday there was no validity to the Herald report, it prompted Republicans sympathetic to Fernandez to release a copy of the email, which in broader terms reveals Fernandezs uneasiness with the direction of Scotts campaign.
Fernandezs email indicates that he never heard the comments he complained about. A business partner named Luis apparently did on the way to a Chipolte Grill, a Mexican restaurant.
Its culturally insensitive for him to hear a senior staff members [sic] mimicking a Mexican accent on the way to Chipotle. It shows that the team does not understand the culture YOU need to win, Fernandez wrote on his iPad.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/25/4017667/email-foreshadows-exit-of-mike.html#storylink=cpy
FSogol
(45,529 posts)What is the point of helping total asshats win an election, Mr. Fernandez?
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)The GOP is so full of racist idiots that these efforts are doomed to fail
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and he is just figuring this out?
How the Hell do someone so stupid make so much money?