Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera will run in 2016 for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by presidential candidate Marco Rubio. Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez Cantera’s office is in the state Capitol, but as Mike Vasilinda tells us, the Lt. Governor has managed to arrange work related state paid trips to and from his Miami home most every weekend…and when he hasn’t traveled, it’s because he never made it to the Capitol that particular week.
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“As a family, we’ve decided I’m running for the U.S. Senate, so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers”, Lopez-Cantera says on the two-minute video.
Lopez-Cantera is the third prominent Republican in the race that has two others, U.S. Reps. Lopez-Cantera has supported in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, wasteful spending at the state level, and former Governor Charlie Crist’s budget that raised taxes by a whopping $2.2 billion. After his announcement, the Democratic Party of Florida packed its Twitter feed with, er, memories from his tenure in the legislature.
Democratic Congressmen Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson are also running for the seat.
Lopez-Cantera supporters chuckled at the notion of an outsider like Cuccinelli – a failed 2013 gubernatorial candidate in Virginia – opining about what’s considered electable in Florida.
On the Republican side, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis of Ponte Vedra Beach and Todd Wilcox, an Orlando businessman and military veteran, are already in the race. “These are conservative accomplishments, so I challenge anybody whose running to put their record of actual legislation that they sponsored and passed against what I’ve been able to accomplish as a public servant over the last 10 years”. “I’m Carlos Lopez-Cantera“, he said.
“He’s an honest man”, said 60-year-old James Williams, 60, of Miami, a longtime friend of Lopez-Cantera who attended the rally.
Lopez-Cantera also said that the campaign won’t interfere with his duties as lieutenant governor.
“But what record does Lopez-Cantera have to point to since he’s been serving Florida as LG?”
Meanwhile, New Times reported last week that the American Democracy Legal Fund filed a complaint against Lopez-Cantera with the Federal or his allegedly violating the Federal Election Campaign Act. That’s a decision he’ll make.
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In a Web video, Lopez-Cantera pitched himself as a Washington outsider.
