Obama Florida supporters slam McCain
Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:10 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC/NJ’s Athena Jones
The
Obama campaign hosted a call with Florida legislators to slam
McCain as a poor candidate for South Florida who would have a big, uphill climb if he is to appeal to voters there.
On the roughly 25-minute call -- which the campaign called to discuss what it called McCain’s upcoming “tele-town hall with “Independent and Democratic” voters” -- were U.S. Reps. Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz (FL-D), formerly a staunch Clinton backer, and Robert
Wexler (FL-D).
Wasserman-Schultz said South Florida had never supported a Republican as a presidential candidate in the 20 years she had lived there and argued McCain was “not a candidate that shares any of the prior that Democratic and Independent women care about in South Florida.” She spoke specifically about his opposition to Roe v. Wade.
She also mentioned McCain advisor Charlie Black’s comment that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil could benefit his campaign. She said using terrorism as a political tool was “disgusting” and suggested McCain’s association with Black raised questions about his judgment.
The congresswoman said Obama had work to do in Florida because he had not campaigned there very much, but argued his positions on the issues of concern to the state’s voters would put him in good stead.
Wexler called McCain the “most anti-Florida candidate in modern history” citing among other things his support for lifting the moratorium for offshore drilling along Florida’s “pristine” coastline.
