Charlie Crist Names Annette Taddeo-Goldstein as Running Mate

Back in January, Gov. Rick Scott named Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his lieutenant governor and eventual reelection running mate. This was seen as a good move at the time to lock down the Hispanic vote. But on Thursday, Charlie Crist has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down by announcing...

By Chris Joseph

July 17, 2014

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Back in January, Gov. Rick Scott named Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his lieutenant governor and eventual reelection running mate. This was seen as a good move at the time to lock down the Hispanic vote.

But on Thursday, Charlie Crist has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down by announcing that Colombian-American-female-married-to-a-Jewish-man Annette Taddeo-Goldstein will be his running mate.

Taddeo-Goldstein is vice chair of the Democratic Party of Florida and is the first Latino named chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party.

"I'm proud to join Charlie Crist to fight for the people of Florida," she wrote on her Facebook and Twitter pages. "It's an honor and a privilege to be part of this team."

Taddeo-Goldstein, who lives in Pinecrest, is a mother of three, including an 8-year-old daughter with husband to Dr. Eric Goldstein, a clinical psychologist.

According to her bio on her website, she moved to Miami at age 17. She attended the University of North Alabama and graduated in 1992 with a degree in commercial Spanish and a minor in business administration.

In 1995, Taddeo-Goldstein founded LanguageSpeak, a comprehensive language services company that offers translations, conference interpretation, and private tutoring in more than 100 languages.

Post by Annette Taddeo.

Listening 2 Mayor Phillip Stodard @Caracol1260: 'politicians should stop playing politics with Global Warming" @MiamiDadeDems
— Annette Taddeo (@Annette_Taddeo) July 15, 2014

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