Karla Hernández-Mas, Rep. Charlie Crist’s (D-FL) working mate in Florida’s gubernatorial race, just lately insulted college students with particular wants, asserting that her expertise as a particular ed instructor will help her in coping with the “dysfunctional legislature” if she will get elected.
Hernández-Mats made the comment on Tuesday throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Cape Coral, boasting of her expertise as a particular ed instructor earlier than making the unseemly comparability.
“I’m a instructor. I’m a sp-ed instructor, so my main was emotionally-handicapped training, okay?” she mentioned. “That by itself qualifies me to take care of the dysfunctional legislature.”
“[It’s] a novel set of, uh, you already know, talent set with the intention to take care of them,” she continued, prompting a response from Florida’s first woman Casey DeSantis.
“Sickened by callous phrases from somebody who claims to be an advocate for youngsters. Karla, saying kids w/ distinctive skills are ‘dysfunctional’ & equating them to political opponents is a brand new low,” DeSantis mentioned.
“I’ll make it my mission to let all mother and father know of the ‘hate in your coronary heart,’” she vowed, echoing the language Crist used to explain the governor’s supporters, because the Democrat said final month that they’d large “hate” of their hearts:
Sickened by callous phrases from somebody who claims to be an advocate for youngsters.
Karla, saying kids w/ distinctive skills are “dysfunctional” & equating them to political opponents is a brand new low.
I’ll make it my mission to let all mother and father know of the “hate in your coronary heart.”
— Casey DeSantis (@CaseyDeSantis) September 14, 2022
That is removed from the primary controversial assertion Crist’s working mate has made. In October 2021, as an illustration, she insulted involved mother and father attending faculty board conferences, basically evaluating them to characters from horror movies:
For any of you following the varsity board conferences, you already know that the craziness is actual. God be with us. #antivaxxers #disinformation #misinformation pic.twitter.com/FczrhSebGb
— Karla Hernández (@KarlaforFlorida) October 22, 2021
Her divisive rhetoric matches that of Crist, who final month instructed DeSantis supporters to not vote for him, as in line with him they apparently have “hate” of their hearts. He later went on to reward President Biden for having the “braveness” to assault MAGA Republicans in a speech.
“God love him. God love him, and I do,” Crist mentioned of Biden. “And he’s advised it straight. Democracy is at stake. … Our freedoms are at stake. And the President laid it out, and he couldn’t maintain again and I’m so rattling pleased with him for it.”
