Carlos Lopez-Cantera Sworn In As Florida’s First Hispanic Lieutenant Governor

By Bill Cotterell, Reuters/Huffington Post

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb 3 (Reuters) – Florida Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera, a longtime legislative insider and the first Hispanic to hold that office, was sworn in on Monday barely eight months before Governor Rick Scott faces re-election in November.

Lopez-Cantera, 40, could give Scott a much-needed boost in heavily Hispanic south Florida at election time.

Recent polls have shown Scott, a Republican, trailing his main rival, Charlie Crist, himself a former Republican Governor but now running as a Democrat.

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