Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is favored to win re-election, and his Democratic opponent, Rep. Charlie Crist, appears decided to lose. On Saturday, 4 days after successful the nomination in a main, Mr. Crist selected Karla Hernández-Mats, president of Miami’s United Academics of Dade, as his working mate.
Ms. Hernández-Mats, who can also be a vice chairman of the American Federation of Academics, opposed reopening Florida public colleges. In September 2020, the UTD organized a caravan, together with a hearse, to protest reopening colleges exterior the Miami-Dade County College Board headquarters. Ms. Hernández-Mats insisted that “lives are going to be misplaced” if Miami colleges reopened. Florida’s colleges reopened in 2020, however in 2021 the AFT efficiently lobbied the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention to tighten school-reopening tips, which saved colleges elsewhere closed longer.
