MIAMI – In a press convention Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis took intention at opponent Charlie Crist’s functioning mate, Karla Hernandez. She is the latest President of the United Teachers of Dade.
The Governor claimed she guarded former Brownsville Center School P.E. instructor Wendell Nibbs, who, in 2020, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting numerous students between the ages of 12 and 17.
“Her Union shielded him, realizing he represented a danger to learners in center college lecture rooms,” Governor DeSantis reported. “He abused, and he abused, and he abused. He last but not least received caught, and he is at last in jail, but they care far more about the ability of their Union than they did about the greatest interest of these kids.”
Crist’s Campaign Communications director, Saman Ramirez, responded with a statement saying:
“It really is a lie. And to leading it off, it is coming from a governor whose possess marketing campaign was led by accused baby sexual predator Matt Gaetz, and whose disgusting actions DeSantis still refuses to condemn. Though Ron DeSantis shields sexual predators in his personal bash, Karla Hernández is a former distinctive needs instructor who has devoted her everyday living to serving the individuals of her local community.”
Nibbs was a member of the United Lecturers of Dade.
Accusations against him date again as much as 2004, and law enforcement commenced their formal investigation in 2015. He was eventually arrested in 2017.
Hernandez was named President of the UTD in mid-2016 and served as Treasurer right before that. Ramirez famous the UTD has no investigative part when an allegation is designed against a union member and has no role in the using the services of or firing of teachers.
In his remarks, the Governor also created other accusations in opposition to Hernandez:
“This jogging mate that he picked from down in Miami,” he said, “Who is a instructor union boss and sympathetic to Fidel Castro– it was unbelievable to see that tweet– labored tooth and nail to lock young children out of faculty in 2020.”
The tweet the Governor referenced browse: “A political figure dies at 90. Most in Miami rejoice, lots of in Cuba mourn #FidelCastro”
At a marketing campaign function Saturday, an individual displayed that tweet on an digital indicator outside the house.
Hernandez resolved it on that working day, telling CBS4: “When Castro died, I was celebrating out in the streets with pots and pans with all my colleagues. Not just my colleagues, but my neighbors.”
