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Democrat Karla Hernandez-Mats Republican Governor of Florida and Lieutenant Governor “Commander DeSantis” and “Aunt Jeanette”.
Hernandez-Mats, who is running for lieutenant governor, makes a thinly veiled reference to the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale. “
She told Insider that Florida’s abortion, education and voting led to characterization.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Karla Hernandez-Mats, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Florida, said Friday that living in the state is starting to look like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the 1985 dystopian novel that exploded on the bestseller list. The presidency of Donald Trump.
In a speech at a fundraiser known as the Miami-Dade Democratic Party Blue Gala, Hernandez-Mats, No. 2 on the governor’s price ticket with Charlie Crist, swept Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez by comparing them to characters from Margaret Atwood’s novel.
“We allow Commander DeSantis and Aunt Jeanette to continue to turn Florida into a mini Gilead,” he said, referring to the book’s fictional Republic of Gilead, an army and a devout dictatorship that overthrows the U. S. government. USA
In the novel, women known as “maids” are raped and forced to produce young men for the male ruling class, known as “commanders. “Maids were allowed to read, write, or own property, and newspapers were censored. Maids
“Obviously, a lot of other people have read ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and I think we’re going backwards like that,” Hernandez-Mats said in an interview with Insider after the event, a dinner on the plate with other Democratic speakers and held at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Hernandez-Mats drew comparisons to legislation passed under DeSantis, adding an exception to the 15-week abortion ban for rape and incest, an effort to redraw the map of state Congress and the state’s resolution to reject some math textbooks that do not conform to a new school law. restricting how race is discussed in classrooms.
“Unfortunately, all of those things sound fictional and will never happen, because that’s what I think about when I read this eBook, and here we are in 2022,” he told Insider. “We see a governor who acts like a dictator, who is authoritarian, and who kidnaps us and deprives us of freedom, which is precisely what happens in Gilead. “
Hernandez-Mats said he hadn’t used the comparison in a speech before Friday, but the comparison in Washington, D. C. , when Trump was president, was not unusual.
Protesters disguised themselves as maids and piled up outdoors at the U. S. Capitol. The U. S. Senate was brought by the Republican-controlled Senate to Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and when Republicans sought to repeal the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s health care law. .
Hernandez-Mats told Insider he read the e-book but didn’t see Hulu’s version of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which won Emmy Awards and stars Elizabeth Moss.
Hernandez-Mats, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Honduras, is a former special education instructor who later became president of United Teachers of Dade, an instructors’ union.
“My purpose as an instructor is to teach children with emotional and behavioral disorders,” Hernandez-Mats said during his speech Friday night. “So I think I agree that this qualifies me to deal with dysfunctional legislators in Tallahassee. “
Crist announced on August 27 that he had selected Hernandez-Mats to appear on his awards ballot and resigned from the U. S. House of Representatives. A few days later. He served as governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011, when he was a Republican at the time.
DeSantis rarely mentions Crist in his speeches. Instead, he touts his moves during the COVID-19 pandemic to “keep Florida free” and has called the Sunshine State the “freest state. “long before other states.
It followed the national popularity of the call and the hypothesis that he will run for president in 2024.
At public events in recent weeks, DeSantis warned voters to “take nothing for granted” that Florida would have operated the pandemic the same way if he weren’t governor. DeSantis won his first term with less than half a percentage point against the Democrat. Andrew Gillum, former mayor of Tallahassee.
DeSantis criticized Hernandez-Mats for supporting pandemic-induced school closures when he led the teachers’ union. Hernandez-Mats told Insider on Friday that he supports reopening to do so safely.
However, DeSantis sees his education policies as one of his most powerful arguments for re-election. Although it faced a backlash when schools reopened for months, many blue states eventually followed suit amid reactions from parents and, although officials concluded that virtual learning is negative for social and school education. results.
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