We’re holding our nose and endorsing Val Demings over Marco Rubio for US Senate

Remember when she sicced the cops on our friends at Orlando Weekly?

by Ray Roa October 26, 2022August 3, 2023

Marco Rubio doesn’t even want the job, and kowtowed over and over again to former President Trump after saying a bunch of disparaging stuff about him in the Republican primary eons ago. Our friends at La Gaceta say that Demings has bigger cajones than Marco. We agree, and even though she’s the same former police chief who sicced the cops on our sibling paper Orlando Weekly, we’re holding our nose and voting for Val.

See all of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s election 2022 endorsements on this handy ballot cheat sheet.

This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2022.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief... More by Ray Roa