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Judi Lynn

(164,122 posts)
4. Something needs to happen to get them to spread out, resettle
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 12:29 AM
Oct 2013

around the country, rather than holding out in Florida, controlling Florida politics, controlling the entire slate of electors, which makes them so important to every Presidential election, wherein ALL candidates will end up making pilgrimages to Miami to seek favor, votes, and contributions from the Cuban "exile" reactionaries.

They have held inordinate power over US politics in the Americas ever since they ran to Florida following the Cuban revolution. Many believed the US would invade Cuba, and they would move right back and take over where they left off.

When that didn't happen, the simply ran Florida politics with the corrupt, violent, treacherous style they ran things in Cuba prior to the Revolution, the same racist, heavy-handed, entitled attitude which generated the revolution in the first place.

Many Miamians bailed out of South Florida following this power shift, and left their new leader, Jorge Mas Canosa blithely telling Spain's El Pais:

7/31/94 The Miami Herald reprints an interview with Jorge Mas Canosa from the Spanish newspaper El Pais. Mas Canosa was asked by El Pais whether he believed Americans would take over Cuba if Fidel Castro fell. The Herald quoted Mas Canosa as saying, in part, "They haven't even been able to take over Miami! If we have kicked them out of here, how could they possibly take over our own country?" (MH, 7/28/94; WP, 7/28/94)

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_126-150/doc0146b.html

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