First thing about Charlie Crist: A Republican governor of Florida from 2007-2011, he broke with the GOP first by declaring himself an Independent in 2010 and then a Democrat in 2012. In 2016 he won election to represent Florida’s 13th District in the U.S. House, and has since been twice re-elected.
Crist also served as Florida’s attorney general from 2003 to 2007 and its state education commissioner from 2001 to 2003.
Yesterday, he announced the choice of Karla Hernandez – president of the Miami-Dade County teachers union – as his running mate. Hernandez’s selection drives home Crist’s focus on education in a state where DeSantis has polarized voters with his hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic and his policies limiting classroom discussions of race and LGBTQ issues.
The ticket has been endorsed by the Florida Teachers’ Union and the AFL-CIO.
Crist – who has called out DeSantis as a “bully” who exploits cultural divides on gender, sexuality and race – is also campaigning to make it easier to vote in the state, including reversal of 2021 changes to the state’s mail ballot policies.
In Congress, he’s voted for:
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