Billionaire leaves Gov. Rick Scotts campaign after racist incident.

[elleng]

On late Thursday, billionaire Mike Fernandez abruptly resigned his post as the finance co-chair of Governor Rick Scott’s (R-FL) reelection campaign.
Do you know how hard a campaign has to work these days to court billionaires? And now you've lost him, Scott. Hope it was worth it.

Tensions between Scott’s campaign staff and Fernandez had been building for weeks. And the last straw, according to people within the campaign who spoke with the Miami Herald this weekend, was an incident in which several of Scott’s campaign staffers allegedly began joking around in a cartoonish, over-the-top Mexican accent while on the way to a Mexican restaurant.
Fernandez, who is Cuban, reportedly shot off an angry email to campaign leadership after word of the incident leaked out.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/24/1287036/-Billionaire-leaves-Gov-Rick-Scott-s-reelection-campaign-after-racist-incident?detail=email#

[Ecumenist]

1. WHY IS HE SURPRISED? When a person tells you who they are........

BELIEVE THEM!

[rhett o rick]

2. Non-white and/or non-male billionaires have a problem. They really want to belong

to the Republicans Billionaires club, but sooner or later they have to deal with the bigotry and sexism.

[pacalo]

3. So true, rhett.

[BrotherIvan]

4. So the fact that Scott is an evil prick didn't bother him?

Another IGMFU Republican. Yay! Until you find out they hate you too?

[polichick]

8. IGMFU - exactly. Looks like HIS feelings were finally hurt.

[Cha]

5. Bet those idiots on scott's campagin staff think they're better

cause they speak lyingese.

A telephone press conference featuring Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera was abruptly ended Monday morning after reporters kept asking about the departure of Mike Fernandez from the Gov. Rick Scott re-election campaign, rather than about the new TV commercial the campaign was launching.



thanks ellen~

[flamingdem]

6. Good! Even though from what I've seen

many Cubans think they're above the Mexicans at least this billionaire has a clue.

[polichick]

7. Really, this is what it took for Fernandez to figure out who Rick Scott is?

[Skittles]

9. so....he is hurt that republicans behave like the racist assholes they are

*got it*

[Sunlei]

10. The campaign lets the billionare play " campaign finance co-chairman", then when he asks for

"an hour a month" for "Clarity and accountability" about where campaign donations were spent....he is out of the loop.

How does it feel Mr. Mike Fernandez to know they wanted you only for the donations you could bring in. How those donations were spent was none of your "campaign finance co-chairman" business. You were used.


ref his email- http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2014/03/in-his-own-words-exceprts-from-fernandez-email.html