After losing his seat, Rep. Basabe posts from Barbados that 'public service was a privilege'
In a Veterans Day post, the outgoing House District 106 lawmaker recommended Barbados to the 46% of America who he said didn't vote for jihad or communism.
State Rep. Fabián Basabe, the Miami Beach Republican who lost his House District 106 seat on Nov. 3, posted on Instagram on Veterans Day in a post tagged in Barbados. “Public service was a privilege,” he wrote.
In the post, Basabe said Barbados made coping much easier and recommended it to what he called the 46% of America who did not vote for jihad or communism, spelling both words with symbols in place of some letters. The post did not explain the figure. The rest of it honored veterans, his father and members of the armed forces and their families. It does not mention Democrat Lucia Báez-Geller, who won the seat.
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Fabián Basabe’s Nov. 11 post, from his verified Instagram account, @fabianbasabe2.
Báez-Geller beat Basabe with 30,912 votes (54%) to his 26,376 (46%), according to unofficial results from the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections. The district includes Miami Beach. Red Sidewalks’ election night story has the full results.
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