FL-21: Diaz-Balart Touts Endorsements That He Doesn’t Have

So far, so good for Lincoln Diaz-Balart:

Locked in a competitive reelection battle, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart last week touted endorsements from several local unions.

“I am deeply honored by the broad support my campaign for reelection is receiving from the working men and women of our community,” he said in a press release, citing backing from unions such as the Fraternal Order of Police and United Teachers of Dade.

The only snag? Two of the unions that Diaz-Balart claimed the endorsements of are actually supporting his Democratic challenger, former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez:

But two of the 12 unions on the list — the Transport Workers Union Local 291 and International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1922, both AFL-CIO affiliates — say they didn’t endorse the Republican incumbent.

“Absolutely not,” transport workers local union president Wessell Clarke said.

Though the transport workers have considered Diaz-Balart “our friend in Congress for the past 15 years,” Clarke said, they and the longshoremen’s local went along with the Florida AFL-CIO, which voted last week to endorse Diaz-Balart’s Democratic rival, former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez. The union is also backing two other congressional challengers — Joe Garcia, who is running against Diaz-Balart’s brother, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, and Annette Taddeo, who is trying to oust Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Busted! Add another Republican fuckup to the list.