{"id":2564,"date":"2018-05-01T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/dnc-on-rick-scotts-campaign-events-with-puerto-ricans-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:52:00","slug":"dnc-on-rick-scotts-campaign-events-with-puerto-ricans-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-rick-scotts-campaign-events-with-puerto-ricans-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Rick Scott\u2019s Campaign Events with Puerto Ricans in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DNC Spokesperson Francisco Pelayo released the following statement ahead of Rick Scott&rsquo;s campaign appearances in Kissimmee and Tampa:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A week after Rick Scott kicked out Puerto Rican evacuees from his event in Kissimmee, he&rsquo;s back with more of his usual lip service to Latinos. But his actions speak very clearly. Rick Scott will say or do anything to get elected while thousands of Puerto Ricans in Florida are in peril because of the housing crisis he created by raiding the state&rsquo;s affordable housing trust fund and gutting other programs that so many Puerto Rican and Latino families depend on. For years, Senator Bill Nelson has championed the issues that our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters care about, and he will continue to advocate for Puerto Rico in Congress while Rick Scott and Donald Trump turn their backs on the island and our fellow Americans.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>El vocero del Comit&eacute; Nacional Dem&oacute;crata, Francisco Pelayo, realiz&oacute; las siguientes declaraciones como respuesta a los eventos de Rick Scott en Kissimmee y Tampa el d&iacute;a de hoy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Una semana despu&eacute;s de que le negara la entrada a su evento de Kissimmee a un grupo de puertorrique&ntilde;os, Rick Scott vuelve a traer sus palabras vac&iacute;as a nuestra comunidad Latina. Sus acciones hablan claramente y sabemos que Scott dir&aacute; y har&aacute; lo que sea necesario para ser electo, &nbsp;mientras que miles tienen un futuro incierto gracias a la crisis de vivienda que Scott cre&oacute; al limitar el acceso a viviendas asequibles y recortar otros programas de los que tantos puertorrique&ntilde;os dependen. Durante a&ntilde;os, el Senador Bill Nelson ha trabajado para luchar por Puerto Rico en el Congreso y lo seguir&aacute; haciendo, mientras que Rick Scott y Donald Trump le seguir&aacute;n dando la espalda a la isla y a nuestros compatriotas&rdquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Spokesperson Francisco Pelayo released the following statement ahead of Rick Scott&rsquo;s campaign appearances in Kissimmee and Tampa: &nbsp; &ldquo;A week after Rick Scott kicked out Puerto Rican evacuees from his event in Kissimmee, he&rsquo;s back with more of his usual lip service to Latinos. But his actions speak very clearly. Rick Scott will say <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Rick Scott\u2019s Campaign Events with Puerto Ricans in Florida - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-rick-scotts-campaign-events-with-puerto-ricans-in-florida\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-05-01T20:52:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-rick-scotts-campaign-events-with-puerto-ricans-in-florida\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-rick-scotts-campaign-events-with-puerto-ricans-in-florida\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Rick Scott\u2019s Campaign Events with Puerto Ricans in Florida - 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