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Awkward. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist used to be Florida’s governor and he’d like to have the job back. In order to do that, though, he has to win the Democrat nomination in August and then go on to beat the current governor, Ron DeSantis in November. That isn’t going to happen, yet, Crist persists.

Crist was governor from 2007 to 2011. In 2010 he left the Republican Party and switched his voter registration to Independent. After that switch didn’t go so well for him, he became a Democrat. He was elected to the House as a Democrat. Now he wants to be governor again – this time as a Democrat. His opponent in the Democrat primary is Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried Crist is ahead in the polls against her.

In Tampa Bay last weekend, Moms for Liberty held a summit and Governor DeSantis was a featured speaker. At the same time, Florida’s state Democratic Party convention was being held in the same complex. On Saturday, protesters were outside, organized by Tampa Bay’s Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Tampa Bay Coalition for Women’s Rights. The socialists were protesting Ron DeSantis but also Democrats. They are angry at Democrats for allegedly not doing enough to fight back against the reversal of Roe v Wade. When Crist and State Senator Janet Cruz tried to join the protesters, they were run off.

Crist gamely continued to wave and smile to the crowd as he was driven off by a protester with a bullhorn.

The WUSF report says that the protest remained peaceful and no arrests were made.

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The station reports that the group also chanted: ‘Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Ron DeSantis go away.’

A post on Tampa Bay’s Party for Socialism and Liberation Instagram page described Moms for Liberty as a ‘fascist organization that organizes nationally for book banning, not teaching Black history in schools, not requiring vaccines or masks in schools, and any mention of LGBTQ people in schools.’

Senator Rick Scott and former Secretary for Education Betsy DeVos were also speakers at the Moms for Liberty summit. The protesters were angry about the abortion issue but that wasn’t even a topic of discussion at the summit, according to reporting by the Tampa Bay Times. The Moms for Liberty focused on education and a hot topic was books in classrooms. They promote banning books unsuitable for school children in classrooms. Governor DeSantis encouraged the attendees to run for school board positions. ‘We have a great opportunity in this election in August with the primaries in the school boards … and then in November in my election and all these other elections, to really solidify the state of Florida as this country’s citadel of freedom.’

Charlie Crist is a phony who will bend to any political position in order to win an election. His position on abortion, for example, has been fact checked many times and it appears he has changed his mind at least six times.

A pinned tweet atop Charlie Crist’s Twitter page reads: ‘On my first day as governor, I will sign an Executive Order to protect reproductive freedom in Florida.’

Although Crist is well-known for flip-flopping on abortion rights. He told WFLX in April: ‘I’m still pro-life, meaning I’m for life. I hope most people are.’ In July he told the Orlando Sentinel that he regretted appointing pro-life judges in Florida when he was the governor.

According to PolitiFact, Crist has changed his position on abortion rights on six occasions.

The fact checking site said in their synopsis of his stance: ‘He has been conflicted about abortion. In fact, we struggled to find a consistent position he’s ever held on the matter.’

In 1998, Crist told the Tampa Bay Times that he was ‘pro-choice, but not pro-abortion.’

In 2010, when Crist left the Republican Party to become an Independent, he removed much of his anti-abortion language from his website, reports USA Today.

Crist will likely win the primary but he’ll lose the general election to DeSantis. Even the socialists aren’t buying his malarkey.

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