ON THE FRONT PAGE: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is “Fighting for All Floridians”

ON THE FRONT PAGE: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is “Fighting for All Floridians”

Following her swing through Florida’s Panhandle, Floridians are reading about Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s fight to lower costs and protect freedom in Florida.

InWeekly: Fighting for All Floridians

• Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell spent last week in the Florida Panhandle building support for her bid to win the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Rick Scott.
• Mucarsel-Powell said her coalitions include Independents, Republicans and Democrats. “I’m really proud that I’ve been receiving the support of 10s of thousands of people. This campaign is bringing Floridians across political lines.
• I’m having conversations with Republicans who may not vote for a Democrat at the top of the ticket, but they’ll vote for a senator that will work for them and represent them in Washington D.C., and that’s the campaign I’m running.
• I am never going to leave any community behind. It’s impossible to be everywhere, but I’m trying to be in as many communities as I can.
• Rick Scott wrote the plan to eliminate Medicare and Social Security. He has said multiple times that he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and raise taxes on middle-class families. He thinks that everybody has to pay, even if you’re in the poverty line. Instead of thinking, ‘How do we lift up our communities?
• We’re living under extreme attacks on all our liberties. We have these attacks on women’s reproductive freedoms. Rick Scott supports the six-week abortion ban. Why do I want to run for Senate? Because someone has to stand up to these attacks.
• Mucarsel-Powell wants to create jobs with a living wage and believes solar panel manufacturing may be a solution.
• ​​Her patriotism feeds her public service.

La Costa Latina: First South American-born immigrant to serve as a member of Congress visits Northwest Florida

• Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who immigrated from Ecuador with her family when she was 14-years-old, is running for Senate against Rick Scott.
• Mucarsel-Powell is also the first Spanish-speaking Florida Democrat to run for U.S. Senate.
• [Mucarsel-Powell] is on a unique Latino-outreach endeavor with unprecedented early advances.
• While in Congress, Mucarsel-Powell highlighted needs in the Latino community by launching the first Latina Equal Pay forum.
• [Mucarsel-Powell] led the charge to pass legislation to secure TPS for Venezuelans and passed a bill that facilitated $400M in aid to the Venezuelan people and neighboring countries.
• Her story of having worked her way from a minimum wage job in a donut shop to serving in Congress, is resonating with Latino voters, and her campaign is prioritizing reaching Florida Latinos.
• Through a seemingly non-stop tour around the state, Mucarsel-Powell is meeting with Latino community leaders to discuss concerns like affordability for working families and Latino-owned businesses.