FL Senate Candidate Booted From Talk Show

The Daily Caller reports:

Florida Senate candidate and current state Senate president Mike Haridopolos issued a statement Wednesday afternoon clarifying his stance on Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan’s span style="color: green;">budget plan< and cuts to Medicare.

The statement walks a fine line between supporting the budget proposal and promising to protect the incredibly popular entitlement program in the state of Florida.

“While I support almost every provision of the Ryan Plan, I believe that it must be amended to provide greater protections for Seniors, ” said Haridopolos in his statement.

“Fighting for Seniors is not new to me, ” he continued. “One of the main reasons I fought ObamaCare, including passing Florida’s span style="color: green;">Health Care< Freedom Act, is because of the devastating cuts it dealt to Seniors, cutting $500 billion from Medicare to fund ObamaCare-Welfare programs.”

The statement was issued after a conservative radio host in Orlando essentially kicked Haridopolos off his radio program when the candidate dodged answering questions about whether or not he supports Ryan’s budget proposal.

The host, Orlando-based Ray Junior, pressed Haridopolos several times with questions about how he would vote on the proposal if he was a senator today.

A spokesperson for Haridopolos, Tim Baker, told The Daily Caller the radio interview was an “ambush.” ...