Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Gillum’s Remark About Opponent DeSantis: ‘He Had The Nerve To Address Me Only As Andrew’

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Speaking to supporters at Florida Memorial University, Andrew Gillum, Florida Gubernatorial Candidate and the current Mayor of Tallahassee said,

I met [DeSantis] for the first time the other night, and then all of a sudden, without invitation, he was calling me only as Andrew. Between the two of us, he quit his job in Congress — I’m a sitting mayor, and he had the nerve to address me only as Andrew?

Does he not understand how badly arrogant statements like that play out with constituents? How does he think Rep. DeSantis should address him, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Gillum? This remark said more to the voters of Florida about his character than any speech ever could.

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This has been a contentious race from the beginning. Within hours of winning the Republican gubernatorial primary, the media pounced on DeSantis’ unfortunate choice of words uttered during an interview on Fox News. He said, “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state.”

It’s no surprise that DeSantis was questioned about his “racism” during last week’s debate.

“Gillum said that while he’s not explicitly calling DeSantis a racist, he’s “simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist.””

Afterward, Gillum told students “I wanted to correct him, y’all, but I didn’t want to be petty. So, we just we pushed all the way through.”

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) represented his district in Congress for nearly three terms, resigning in September to devote his time to his gubernatorial campaign. Prior to serving in Congress, DeSantis earned a BA from Yale University, a JD from Harvard and spent four years serving in the Navy.

Former Senator George Allen (R-VA) can certainly relate to DeSantis’ current woes. A similar slip of the tongue sunk his reelection bid in 2006. He famously called his opponent’s campaign tracker by the name “macaca.” Even now, when you google “George Allen,” the third result to appear is “George Allen macaca.”

As for Gillum, he repeated a mistake made by former Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in 2009. She is the only other politician whom I’ve ever heard correct an equal for not addressing them with their proper title. During a senate hearing, she corrected a Brigadier General who had addressed her as ma’am, saying, “Do me a favor, can you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am. It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title, so I’d appreciate it. Thank you.”

Yes, Senator,” said the General. And then Boxer’s comment went viral.

As Gillum’s has. Hopefully, but unlikely, it will damage his current (average) lead over DeSantis of 4.5 points.

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Trump was correct in exposing the jihadi mayor of London http://bit.ly/2svuNZ3

Of course as usual he was called “racist” for it ! LOL !

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

What was wrong with that?
Gillum lies like a rug with a smile on his face.

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
5 years ago

The dignity, comfort and avowed superiority of the black male is all that matters now.
Elect Gillum King of Florida.
Then all other blacks males can go about ascending to each their own personal prepared thrones and have at all their collective throats.
When you elect black men, you get Zimbabwe, South Africa, Congo, Nigeria, Libya.
When you elect white men you get Great Britain and The United States of America.
Take your pick.

harbidoll
harbidoll
5 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

you mean Black Dems as apposed to Black Reps.

ed
ed
5 years ago

Mr. DeSantis can call Gillum “Mr. Prisoner” when the feds lock him up……

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago

Petty is the word for lefties and Muslims as well. Given the habit of Americans for using first name almost immediately upon meeting a stranger, which non Americans find rather disturbing by the way, I see nothing remarkable in this

Janet
Janet
5 years ago

What does this jackass Gillum want to be addressed as? Lord and master? Oh that’s right “Mr. Mayor” lol. He is a socialist through and through. He is also as crooked as they come. Another Democrat with the ethics of cockroach. He’s already been caught lying. Florida needs him like it needs another bad hurricane!

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago

Gollum is leading in the polls … reminds me of ‘no way to 270.’

I can believe Gollum has a lead … in the cemeteries.

But I cannot believe Florida is now majority Pod People.

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