Ahead of Rick Scott’s Abortion Ban: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell Launches Mobile Billboard & Spanish Language Ad

Ahead of Rick Scott’s Abortion Ban: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell Launches Mobile Billboard & Spanish Language Ad

In the days ahead of Florida’s abortion ban, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell launched a mobile billboard in Naples and a Spanish-language digital ad holding Rick Scott accountable for his extreme record on reproductive freedom and his support for the dangerous ban.

Florida Politics: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell dispatches mobile billboard attacking Rick Scott in Naples

• “Rick Scott knows he will have to answer for his proud support of a near-total ban on abortion that will put countless women’s lives at risk this November,” Mucarsel-Powell said in a statement. “That’s why he’s desperately trying to con his way out of his toxic record on this issue.”
• “But Rick Scott can’t run from his radical agenda to sign away women’s reproductive rights and control their bodies. Florida voters know exactly what Scott stands for, and they are ready to hold him accountable this November.”
• The broad side of the billboard truck shows a somber black-and-white photo of the Senator, with bold type declaring, “Rick Scott’s Abortion Ban Starts May 1.” It also features a quote from a Spectrum News interview in which Scott said, “I’ve always said I would sign it.”
• The back signage on the mobile billboard shows the same image and calls Scott “anti-choice” and “anti-freedom.”
• But the law has prompted questions of Scott as he seeks re-election to the U.S. Senate. In the Spectrum News interview, he noted he had signed “every abortion, pro-life bill” that the Florida Legislature sent him during eight years as Florida’s Governor.

Florida Politics: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell Spanish language spot says Rick Scott hates ‘freedom’

• “My mother brought me here from Ecuador for freedom. And it’s freedom that Rick Scott wants to take away,” Mucarsel-Powell professes in the digital spot.
• “He supports banning abortion and risking women’s health and lives. My family lived under a dictatorship. When corrupt politicians like Rick Scott attack one freedom, they never stop there. So I’m running for Senate to stop him.”
• “Rick Scott will never understand what it means to leave your home in search of freedom and democracy. He will never understand what it means to live under authoritarianism and dictatorship, but we do,” said Mucarsel-Powell. “While Rick Scott pushes extremist bans that infringe on Floridians’ fundamental rights, I will always protect our freedoms from radical politicians that threaten them.”

Newsweek: Florida Democrat Likens Rick Scott to Dictator in Abortion Ad

• With Florida’s 6-week abortion set to take effect Wednesday, Democratic Senate candidate and former Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell will start the week off with a new ad campaign casting incumbent Republican Senator Rick Scott as an opponent of freedom.
• Control for the Senate could hang on Mucarsel-Powell’s ability to sell this message. In 2024, Democrats must defend seven seats in red and purple states to have a shot at keeping the Senate.
• However, the Florida Supreme Court’s April 1 ruling approving a ballot measure that could overturn the abortion ban has energized Democratic efforts to flip the Sunshine State.
• “My mother brought me here from Ecuador for freedom, and it’s freedom that Rick Scott wants to take away,” Mucarsel-Powell says in the ad. “He supports banning abortion and forcing the government into our doctor’s offices.”
• “My family lived under a dictatorship,” she continues in the ad. “I know when corrupt politicians like Rick Scott attack one freedom, they never stop there, so I’m running for Senate to stop him.”

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