Democrats called on the Republican candidate for Florida’s governor to stop associating his opponent with Yasser Arafat. Charlie Crist’s campaign has run commercials featuring a 2002 photograph of U.S. Rep. Jim Davis (D-Fla.) meeting with the late Palestinian leader as part of a congressional delegation. Rudy Giuliani, a Republican star and the former mayor of New York, chided Davis for the meeting while stumping for Crist this weekend.
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