A former Republican congresswoman in Florida has left the GOP and joined the Democrats, citing her former party’s increasing attacks on women and other minorities. Ana Rivas Logan said: “The GOP of today is not the party I joined. It’s not the party of my parents. It’s a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists.”
After joining the Democrats, Ana Rivas Logan tweeted
Proud to be a member of a compassionate party. Today I became a Democrat!
— Ana Rivas Logan (@anarivaslogan) February 10, 2014
She then sent this other tweet, a picture showing just how disgusted she is with the Republicans;
— Ana Rivas Logan (@anarivaslogan) February 10, 2014
Charlie Crist welcomed Rivas Logan to the party with a tweet reading:
Bienvenida @anarivaslogan to the Democratic Party! Glad you are here my friend. http://t.co/Jm62kCFOMf
— Charlie Crist (@CharlieCrist) February 10, 2014
Rivas Logan explained that she felt she could not, in good conscience, continue carrying the flag for the Republican Party as both a woman and an Hispanic-American. She dismissed the modern Republican Party as nothing more than:
“a party that attacks women and minorities — and one that asked me, and my former Hispanic Republican colleagues in the Florida legislature, to turn on their own people by supporting extreme anti-immigrant policies.”
h/t AATTP
