Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has selected Carlos Lopez-Cantera as the new Lieutenant Governor-Florida-Politics


florida-politics.comFlorida Governor Rick Scott (R) has selected Carlos Lopez-Cantera as the new Lieutenant Governor.

Lopez-Cantera, 40, will be the state’s first Hispanic lieutenant governor and the first person from Miami-Dade to hold the position since it was re-established by voters over 45 years ago. He replaces Jennifer Carroll, who resigned last March.

Lopez-Cantera, a former state House Republican leader who served in the state House for eight years before winning the appraiser’s position in a nonpartisan Dade County-wide election in Florida-Politics.

Born in Madrid and raised in Miami, Bilingual, Lopez-Cantera served in the state house from 2004 to 2012, when he was forced out by term limits.

Lopez-Cantera should be well received by Hispanics, who make up a large and growing segment of the Florida electorate.

In his first interviews shortly before his appointment was announced in Miami, Lopez-Cantera said he took the job with assurances that he would have input on policy decisions.

Lopez-Cantera will take office Feb. 3, 2014 as another milestone in Florida-Politics occurs.

 


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