The Miami Herald is reporting that former state House Repbublican leader Carlos Lopez-Cantera is now the heavy favorite to be picked to be Gov. Rick Scott’s lieutenant governor, and an announcement could be made within a week or so.
According to the Miami Herald’s source, which “indicated that Lopez-Cantera and Scott met Sunday in Miami, where the governor attended the Three Kings parade,” the two got along well, and “Scott indicated he wanted Lopez-Cantera for the job.”The meeting between Scott and Lopez-Cantera was not by chance, as ‘CLC’ interviewed for the job with Scott’s chief of staff, Adam Hollingsworth, several weeks ago in Orlando, Florida.
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In late December 2012, the same sources close to the governor’s office told the Shark Tank that prior to the meeting that took place between Hollingsworth and Lopez-Cantera, Lopez-Cantera spoke to Scott himself about the job.
If Lopez-Cantera is picked for the job, the political calculous changes significantly. Republicans would then have a well-versed, articulate, “white Hispanic” with a hyphenated last name to boot.
Oh, and don’t forget his amigo, Senator Marco Rubio, who is quietly rooting for his friend to be picked.