{"id":1627155,"date":"2022-08-30T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627155"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:19:30","slug":"desantis-calls-for-crist-running-mate-to-be-disqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-for-crist-running-mate-to-be-disqualified\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Calls for Crist Running Mate to Be \u2018Disqualified\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-calls-for-crist-running-mate-to-be-disqualified%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627155&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014Gov. Ron DeSantis made it clear on Aug. 30 that he thought his gubernatorial opponent\u2019s running mate should be disqualified and never hold office in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Fort Pierce, DeSantis criticized Charlie Crist\u2019s choice of Karla Hernandez Mats saying that she puts \u201cunion politics\u201d first.<\/p>\n<p>He called her \u201cdisgraceful\u201d for defending a teacher who had been abusing children since 2004 and advocating that the U.S. attorney general investigate parents who speak out at school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Mats was chosen as Crist\u2019s Democratic running mate on Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p>She is a former middle school teacher and the vice president of the American Federation of Teachers.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis stated she has sent out controversial tweets about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlaMats\/status\/802522374641958912?s=21&amp;t=PdVNIgGaX6OVOruMOoh57Q\">Fidel Castro<\/a> as well as defending the actions of a now convicted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2020\/01\/23\/former-brownsville-middle-school-teacher-pleads-guilty-in-sex-assault-case\/\">child predator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The governor complained that the union boss worked \u201ctooth and nail\u201d to keep children locked out of school during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey opposed everything we did in the state of Florida to give kids an opportunity and to put parents and families first,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that there has been learning loss due to locking children out of school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already know the catastrophic damage that happened for locking these kids out of school and we know Florida is so much better off because we actually put our kids first and we understood how important it was to be in education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May of 2020 Mat\u2019s got into a war of words with parents and government officials over policies involving the pandemic and compared parents who showed up at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlaforFlorida\/status\/1451364479845941250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1451364479845941250%7Ctwgr%5Eeda85798aa5277096e69a158e98134a84a6a0d31%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fdemocrats%2Fdesantis-opponent-names-running-mate-a-teachers-union-head-who-fought-to-close-schools-compared-parents-to-serial-killers%2F\">school board meetings<\/a> to fictitious serial killers such as mass murderer Leatherface from\u00a0The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0and butcher knife slayer Michael Myers from the\u00a0Halloween\u00a0series.<\/p>\n<p>Crist served as the 44th Republican governor from 2007 until 2011; he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014Gov. Ron DeSantis made it clear on Aug. 30 that he thought his gubernatorial opponent\u2019s running mate should be disqualified and never hold office in Florida. At a press conference in Fort Pierce, DeSantis criticized Charlie Crist\u2019s choice of Karla Hernandez Mats saying that she puts \u201cunion politics\u201d first. 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