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2019-06-28 Home Front: Politix

De Blasio Angers Fellow Democrats by Quoting Che Guevara at Miami Rally

[Miami Herald] New York Mayor Bill de Blasio became the latest presidential candidate to flash a little español this week when, during a political rally Thursday, he pulled out a Spanish phrase he thought might motivate workers striking at Miami International Airport.

But instead of endearing himself to South Florida’s Hispanic diaspora, an apparently unwitting de Blasio uttered a revolutionary rallying cry deeply associated with Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution and a man viewed by hundreds of thousands of Cuban exiles as a sociopath and mass murderer.
"apparently unwitting" is far too generous
In a gaffe that forced him to apologize hours later, de Blasio quoted notorious Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara as he spoke Thursday in Terminal D to contract workers protesting poor pay and unsafe conditions. The big-city mayor apparently thought he was saying something akin to the United Farm Workers’ co-opted Si se puede! and instead dropped Che’s most famous quote ‐ instantly enraging Florida Democrats and illustrating concerns that some of the Democratic Party’s biggest figures remain ignorant to the intricacies of Miami politics.

"This is the problem that we run into all the time," Annette Taddeo, a Colombian-American state senator who spoke at the rally before de Blasio, said of the nuances of campaigning in South Florida. "The left has [some] people that are just clueless as hell."

De Blasio, who was in Miami this week to participate in the presidential debates, got into trouble Thursday when he appeared at the airport for a rally for ramp and cargo workers. With a crowd of around 100 chanted behind him, de Blasio urged them to unionize. "The eyes of the world are on this airport, the eyes of the world are on Miami-Dade."

Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-28 01:11|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-28 02:57|| 2019-06-28 02:57|| Front Page Top

#2 De Blasio probably checked with Booker, O'Rourke or Castro for a pithy Spanish quote to use before the debates. I guess he could default to the Dem ploy "It was Russian collusion--Orange Man." Most likely De Blasio was DOA before the debates; IMO he will get booted. One backer the last I heard--some mayor in NC.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-06-28 07:38|| 2019-06-28 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes. Che worship is a very personal thing to democrats. Not meant to be shared with the public at large. Except on college campuses.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-28 07:58|| 2019-06-28 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 De Blasio Angers Fellow Democrats by Quoting Che Guevara at Miami Rally

Because they were jealous. "Heh Butthole, we should have thought that one up first"!

Posted by Woodrow 2019-06-28 08:28|| 2019-06-28 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Bill de Blasio decided to address the largest anti-Castro community in America with a Che quote. You might start to think these are all agents working to get the biggest landslide in history for Trump in 2020.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-28 15:46|| 2019-06-28 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Said dumb little Donald, "I wanna
Someday run a New York Ukraina
And ply folks with scotch
But not listen or watch
With my very own neo-Okhrana!"

Posted by Pheresing Ebbang5654 2019-06-28 20:58|| 2019-06-28 20:58|| Front Page Top

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