Gillum: DeSantis should apologize to voters, not me

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (D) said Thursday that his general election opponent, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R), should apologize to voters, not to him, for saying they shouldn't "monkey this up" by voting for Gillum in November's election.

"He doesn't need to apologize to me, he needs to apologize to Florida voters," Gillum said on MSNBC. "If he thinks that those kinds of shenanigans are going to be persuasive enough in this midterm election to turn this their way, I think he's badly mistaken."

DeSantis, who secured the Republican nomination in the governor's race on Tuesday, has faced significantbacklash for the remarks, which he insists had "zero to do with race."

"This is not about race, this is about ideas and principles," DeSantis told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening. He added that he does not plan to apologize.

Gillum said Thursday he believes DeSantis was "playing a little bit of a race card" with his comments, but said he didn't want the campaign to devolve into name-calling.

"I think DeSantis has decided to pull a page from the Trump campaign playbook and I think it's unfortunate," Gillum said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gillum-desantis-should-apologize-to-voters-not-me/ar-BBMFgWq?li=BBnb7Kz

[Fritz Walter]

1. And then he should admit the truth about his involvement in a far-right FB group

...to which his wife still belongs.

This story is just now coming to light in the Florida mainstream media, after making the rounds in alternative weekly newspapers and ThinkProgress.

"It appears @RonDeSantisFL was moderating hate group on FB that regularly attacked on race and attacked Parkland survivors," tweeted Fred Guttenburg, whose daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland shooting, and has since become a prominent gun control advocate. "If true this is bad."

DeSantis denied through a spokesman on Thursday that he ever led the group or even knew he had been added to it. He "immediately" left it when notified of the controversy, the spokesman said.

With close to 95,000 members, the Tea Party Facebook group racks up new posts by the minute, many of them offensive and featuring articles from far right websites.

Tampa Bay Times

Ron DeRacist must apologize for this as well.