TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Charlie Crist’s running mate Karla Hernandez-Mats should be disqualified from running for office, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday, after alleging the Miami teachers union chief protected a middle school teacher convicted of sexually abusing several students for years. The Crist camp called it “a lie.”
“They had their top henchman … sexually abusing children for years and years,” DeSantis said at the end of a news conference in Fort Pierce to award a job training grant. “But they cared more about the power of their union than they did about the best interests of these kids. That is disgraceful. … I think that’s disqualifying to be in any political office much less than governor of the state of Florida.”
DeSantis left without giving reporters a chance for a followup about his accusations, which were first posted over the weekend on Twitter by Helen Aguirre Ferre, executive director of the Republican Party of Florida.
