Former Florida State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan Leaves GOP Over Immigration, Becomes A Democrat

By Huffington Post Latino Voices

A former Florida state representative and Republican activist has left the GOP over immigration policy.

Ana Rivas Logan will officially become a Democrat Monday afternoon when she files paperwork at the Miami-Dade Elections Department.

Rivas Logan, who was born in Nicaragua after her parents fled Cuba, said one of the reasons she is switching parties is because she was pressured by current Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera to support an Arizona-style immigration law when it surfaced in Florida in 2011.

“The GOP of today is not the party I joined; it’s not the party of my parents,” Rivas Logan said in a statement. “It’s a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists. It’s 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. It’s a party I was no longer proud to be a part of.”

Rivas Logan served on the Miami-Dade County school board before heading to Tallahassee in 2010. She lost a nasty re-election primary in 2012 after redistricting shuffled her into the same district as another incumbent Republican. Miami-Dade GOP chair Nelson Diaz suggested her switch was motivated by a desire to regain office.

“In recent months she has been meeting with [Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chair and FDP Vice-Chair] Annette Taddeo because she is desperate to return to be a candidate,” Diaz told El Nuevo Herald …

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This article was originally published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.

[Photo courtesy of myfloridahouse.gov]

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