Second GOP ad rips Eskamani for using vulgar language

Florida Republicans really want people to know that Anna Eskamani curses – and this time, they’re targeting her for using a word famously said by the Republican president.

One day after Eskamani, running for the state House in District 47, tweeted about a mailer funded by the Republican Party of Florida quoting her saying “I don’t take [expletive] ever,” “Look at the [expletive] we have to put up with,” and “[Expletive] the patriarchy,” she tweeted Friday about a second mailer that adds another quote: “P*ssy power!”

“Anna Eskamani: She’s everything wrong with politics today,” the ad states. “Extremely partisan, extremely vulgar.”

The first ad questioned if Eskamani “is the example our leaders should be setting for our children.”

“Oh, the irony,” Anna said on Twitter, tagging President Trump in a tweet.

Trump famously was caught on tape by Access Hollywood saying, “grab ‘em by the pussy” in a recording released in 2016, leading to protestors wearing pink “pussy hats” at the 2017 Women’s Marches. Trump has also reportedly called African counties “shitholes” in a White House meeting.

“Also real talk: Republican men can say they want to ‘grab [‘em] by the pussy’ and be president, Democratic women talk about #PussyPower and we are explicit and vulgar?” Eskamani said on Twitter. “That ain’t right!”

On Thursday, Eskamani called the original ad an attack on her character.

“It won't work, but this mailer has some truth to it, because I refuse to back down when it comes to fighting for the hardworking families of Orange County, and I’m not going to take advice from Reeves or the entrenched lobbyists who back him,” Eskamani wrote in an email to supporters.

Eskamani faces Republican Stockton Reeves, who in another Republican mailer is described as “restoring civility [and] common sense” to politics.

Reeves said Friday he did not see the new mailer and was out of state on Wednesday and Thursday.

The general election is Nov. 6.