Posted on 02/25/2020 10:40:59 AM PST by rktman
Following Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ comments Sunday defending Fidel Castro, the city of Miami’s elected officials responded by officially sponsoring an anti-communist concert scheduled for April.
Sanders said during a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night on CBS that he opposed “the authoritarian nature” of the Cuban regime, but that it was “unfair to simply say everything is bad.”
“When Fidel Castro came to office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program,” Sanders said to Anderson Cooper on the show. “Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Joe Carollo agreed to promote the “anti-communist concert” Monday alongside all of the elected city officials, who agreed to waive up to $21,500 in rental costs, broadcasting fees and police fire services, the Miami Herald reported.
Suarez censured Sanders over his remarks on Castro.
“Sadly, even now, we see individuals defend and even promote communism and socialism,” he said, according to the Miami Herald. “Just yesterday, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders glorified socialism in a 60 Minutes interview by defending elements of Castro’s regime.”
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The SC voters will probably have something to say about this, too.
Not looking good for BurnUsAndMe in Florida...
Mayor is a Trumper Republican and I think the majority of Miami/Dade supervisors are too.
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Crazy Bernie and Friends need and deserve an overwhelming, unambiguous national rebuke on election day.
Wow - This seems like a pretty significant and weighty rebuke. Am I wrong? The mayor of a county home to nearly 3M people.
“well that’s pretty surprising from the officials in Miami. But, good on you”
Not really...most cubans in Miami hate Castro with the the power of 10,000 suns.
When are we going to start reminding Americans that Barack Obama ,(moderate Democrat, yeah, right) VISITED Cuba and fawned over the Castros, and posed, grinning, in front of a mural of Che Guevara?
Miami is not a leftist city...it has areas of kookiness, but Miami is a nice city...
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