2026年9月25日 美国东部时间下午5:26 / 福克斯新闻
“我始终会为我所代表的社区做最正确的事，无论党派，无论特殊利益集团”
作者：大卫·安斯沃思，福克斯新闻
佛罗里达州第14国会选区共和党候选人抨击这位连任十届的现任议员的政绩，指责她助长激进政策，并拒绝在11月大选前进行辩论。
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在抨击联邦浪费和对外援助补贴的同时，这位前佛罗里达州州议员还提及自己在塔拉哈西违抗党内领导层的记录，共和党候选人迈克·贝尔特兰承诺将以诉讼律师般犀利的盘问态度应对华盛顿的预算危机。
在接受福克斯新闻数字频道独家采访、详述其击败任职20年的民主党现任议员凯西·卡斯特尔的竞选计划时，贝尔特兰阐述了以严格财政问责为核心的竞选主张，承诺即使是共和党领导层提出的臃肿联邦预算案，他也会提出质疑，并警告民主党正拥抱社会主义。
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众议院保守派斥资数百万美元在中期选举发动闪电攻势，打击民主党“社会主义”叛乱
贝尔特兰认为，尽管凯西·卡斯特尔在国会山任职多年，但坦帕湾民众并未从她身上得到良好服务。
“坦帕湾民众在凯西·卡斯特尔20年的任期内政绩寥寥。她没有提出过任何重大立法倡议。她真正做的不过是给邮局更名而已。如果我们再次选举她，最终的结果恐怕就是她会把从坦帕到廷巴克图的所有邮局都改一遍名字。”
“她90%以上的时间都在投党派支持票，包括支持激进社会主义者。她与南希·佩洛西步调完全一致，而且有望选举哈基姆·杰弗里斯为议长。而哈基姆·杰弗里斯议长将会任命拉斯金、奥马尔和科特兹担任委员会主席，这些人将在国会推动激进政策，完全不符合坦帕家庭的需求。”
贝尔特兰表示，他在佛罗里达州议会任职期间是一名独立的保守派声音，不会盲目服从党内领导层，并承诺在华盛顿也将延续这一作风。
“我有勇气违背特殊利益集团投票，哪怕是我自己的政党偏离了正道。我曾投票反对保险公司、房屋建筑商和辩护律师，我曾在任何人做出不利于坦帕家庭的事情时，投票反对各种特殊利益集团。”
“我在2019年到2024年的任期内始终保持跨党派记录，而我的对手直到几周前才发现跨党派合作。所以我始终会为我所代表的社区做最正确的事，无论党派，无论特殊利益集团，无论压力多大。我为自己拥有这种独立投票记录感到自豪。”
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佛罗里达州民主党众议员凯西·卡斯特尔于2024年1月30日周二在 Cannon 众议院办公楼出席美国国会众议院关于美国与中国共产党战略竞争特别委员会的听证会。
贝尔特兰认为，美国需要重新审视其军事和地缘政治关系，秉持财政审慎原则：
“这不能是单方面的交换。像德国这样的富裕国家的国防开支仅占GDP的2%以下，而我们的国防预算却超过了GDP的5%，约合1万亿美元。其中很大一部分都花在了海外，保护其他富裕国家。”
“你看看乌克兰和以色列，他们在抵御外敌，做得不错。但我们每年都要从中国等国举债2万亿美元，这引发了通货膨胀。这意味着我们没有钱再向外送钱，尤其是送给德国和西班牙这样的富裕盟友。”
“这些国家有我们的军事基地，在我们需要参与的冲突中，我们在获取基地权限和飞越权方面都遇到了困难。我们不应该再补贴他们了。”
“你看以色列和韩国的国防开支都超过了GDP的10%，这些国家承担了自身国防的重担，但我们的北约盟友并非如此。他们比我们更接近这些流氓国家和冲突地区，他们应该承担更多责任，但他们做得太少，这是不可接受的。”
作为一名律师，贝尔特兰表示他将为国会山带来强大的专业技能，打破现状，为希尔斯伯勒县的公民而战：
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华盛顿特区美国国会大厦，2025年5月18日周日。（亚历克斯·弗罗布莱夫斯基/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“我的法律素养非常出色。我是一名优秀的盘问律师，我将善于审查我所任职委员会面前的证人。我曾在联邦法院打过官司，所以我了解联邦法规，知道哪些问题需要纠正。我知道如何起草能让法官轻松适用的法规，让律师能够为客户提供法律咨询，告知他们法律内容以及如何合规。”
“我为自己是一名执业律师感到自豪。近20年来，我帮助了坦帕湾地区的众多企业和个人。”
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“我的对手也是一名律师，但她已经很久没有执业了。我想她在担任县专员之前是一名土地使用律师。但我认为她没有带来同样的技能。我从未见过她能有效地盘问证人，也没见过她将法律技能应用于任何立法倡议。事实上，很难找出她为坦帕或其他地区制定过任何有实际价值的法案。”
贝尔特兰认为，凯西·卡斯特尔多次违背佛罗里达州第14选区普通美国人的利益：
“好吧，她反对针对中产阶级、工薪阶层和退休人员的减税。她反对取消小费税、社会保障税和加班费税。”
“她还希望用纳税人的资金为儿童进行变性手术。这是最近的一次投票，我们不必翻出陈年旧账。我对此投了反对票。”
“我不明白希尔斯伯勒县的单身母亲为什么要交税来支付未成年人的变性手术费用，而她自己却还要为加班费和小费缴税。”
贝尔特兰承诺，如果不同意本党领导层的政策，他将与本党领导层对抗，但同时也表示他将与民主党人合作：
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AOC称查理·柯克的“言论和信仰无知、未受教育，企图剥夺数百万美国人的选举权。”
“显然，我们也有一些共和党人花钱大手大脚。所以我会前往华盛顿，与我的政党合作，也会跨越党派界限合作，我会与任何当权政府合作，找出浪费、欺诈和滥用职权的行为，找出不必要的政府项目，找出节省开支的方法和成本控制措施，确保我们成为名副其实的保守派。”
“这是拯救这个国家所必需的，因为我们需要平衡预算，偿还债务，量入为出。因为如果我们不平衡预算，预算就会替我们平衡，那将是在我们信贷枯竭、无人再借钱给我们的时候发生的。”
最后，随着民主社会主义候选人在全美各地以及佛罗里达州的民主党初选中获胜，贝尔特兰指出，卡斯特尔始终拒绝谴责社会主义意识形态，或是谴责其党内持此类观点的候选人。
“我们看到凯西·卡斯特尔支持安吉·尼克松，她就是那些公开宣称的社会主义候选人之一。卡斯特尔说她的政党是一个大帐篷，这个帐篷需要足够大，才能容纳安吉·尼克松……我不确定任何规模的帐篷里有她会是什么样子，但我的对手张开双臂欢迎她。”
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纽约州民主党众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯于2026年3月19日周四在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦出席新闻发布会。（丹尼尔·霍伊尔/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
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“她将与这些社会主义者步调一致，首先选举哈基姆·杰弗里斯，然后任命这些社会主义者担任委员会主席。她几乎没有与党内激进分子划清界限。尽管她最近伪装成温和派，但她仍将赋能社会主义者。”
“这才是11月大选的真正利害所在。不仅仅是我，不仅仅是凯西·卡斯特尔，而是国家的走向，我们是否要拥抱这些激进政策，还是我们要在美国实现经济增长、繁荣和安全。”
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Florida GOP nominee blasts 20-year Dem incumbent as a ‘socialist’ rubber-stamp with ‘precious little to show’
September 25, 2026 5:26pm EDT / Fox News
‘I’m always going to do what’s best for the communities that I represent, regardless of party, regardless of special interests’
By David Unsworth, Fox News
The FL-14 GOP hopeful takes aim at the 10-term incumbent’s record, accusing her of empowering radical policies and refusing to debate ahead of November.
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Calling out federal waste and foreign aid subsidies while pointing to his own record of bucking party leadership in Tallahassee, GOP 14th congressional district nominee Mike Beltran promises to bring a sharp litigator’s cross-examination to Washington’s budget crisis.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital detailing his bid to unseat 20-year Democratic incumbent Kathy Castor, the former Florida state representative laid out a case rooted in strict fiscal accountability, pledged to challenge even Republican leadership on bloated federal budgets, and warned of the Democrats’ embrace of socialism.
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Beltran argues that despite her lengthy tenure on Capitol Hill, the people of Tampa Bay have not been served well by Kathy Castor.
“People in Tampa Bay have precious little to show for Kathy Castor’s two decades of incumbency. She’s had no major legislative initiatives. All she’s really done is rename post offices. And all that’s likely to happen if we reelect her is for her to rename every post office from Tampa to Timbuktu.
“She votes with her party over 90% of the time, including radical socialists. She voted in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi and she’s poised to elect the Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. And Speaker Hakeem Jeffries would appoint a Chair Raskin, a Chair Omar, a Chair Cortez, and those folks would push radical policies in Congress that are completely out of line with what Tampa families need.”
Beltran argues that in the Florida Legislature he served as an independent conservative voice, not automatically beholden to party leadership, and pledges to continue that approach in Washington.
“I’ve had the courage to vote against special interests even when my own party had lost its way. I’ve voted against insurance companies, home builders, trial lawyers, I voted against various special interests…whenever somebody was doing something that wasn’t good for Tampa families.
“And I had that bipartisan record throughout my time, starting in 2019 and continuing through to 2024, unlike my opponent who discovered bipartisanship merely weeks ago. So I’m always going to do what’s best for the communities that I represent, regardless of party, regardless of special interests, regardless of pressure. And that’s what I’m proud of, having that independent voting record.”
Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., takes her seat for the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party hearing in the Cannnon House Office Building on Tuesday, January 30, 2024.
Beltran argues that the United States needs to reexamine its military and geopolitical relationships, with an eye to fiscal prudence:
“It cannot be a one-sided exchange. You cannot have a wealthy country like Germany spend under 2% of GDP on their military when we’re spending over 5% of our GDP on our military budgets, about a trillion dollars. And a lot of that is spent overseas protecting other wealthy countries.
“You see Ukraine and Israel, they’re defending themselves from their adversaries. They’re doing a good job of that. But we are borrowing $2 trillion a year from countries like China. And that’s causing inflation. And what that says is that we don’t have money to be sending, particularly to wealthy allies like Germany and Spain.
“These are countries where we have bases, where we’ve had trouble getting basing privileges or overflight rights for the conflicts that we do need to engage in. And we shouldn’t be subsidizing them anymore.
“You see Israel spends over 10% of GDP on defense, as does South Korea. Those countries are carrying the weight of their own defense, but we don’t see that from all of our NATO allies. And they’re a lot closer to these rogue states, to these conflict regions than we are. They should be doing more, and they’re doing less, and that’s unacceptable.”
As an attorney, Beltran makes the case that he will bring a strong skill-set to Capitol Hill, to do away with business as usual and to fight for the citizens of Hillsborough County:
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, May 18, 2025.(Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“My legal skills are quite good. I’m a good cross examiner. I’ll be good at scrutinizing witnesses who come before committees that I serve on. I’ve litigated in the federal courts, so I know the federal statutes. I know issues that need to be redressed. I know how to write statutes so that they can be easily applied by judges, so that attorneys can counsel their clients on what the law is and what they need to do to comply with that.
“I’m proud to be a practicing attorney. I’ve helped a lot of businesses and individuals throughout Tampa Bay for almost 20 years.
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“And my opponent is also an attorney, but she hasn’t practiced in a very long time. She was, I think, a land use attorney, she says, before she was a county commissioner. But I don’t think she brings that same skill-set. I’ve never seen her cross-examine a witness to any effect. And I haven’t seen her apply her legal skills to any legislative initiative. In fact, it’s kind of difficult to identify anything that she’s enacted that’s of any particular value to Tampa or otherwise.”
Kathy Castor has repeatedly voted against the interests of ordinary Americans in Florida’s 14th district, Beltran argues:
“Well, she opposed tax cuts for the middle class and working class and retirees. She opposed removing taxes on tips, removing taxes on Social Security, removing taxes on overtime.
“And she wanted to pay, through taxpayer funds, for trans surgeries for children. And that was a very recent vote. That wasn’t something that we have to reach into ancient history to find. And I opposed that.
“I see no reason why a single mother here in Hillsborough County should be paying taxes to pay for trans surgeries for minors while she actually is being taxed on her overtime or her tips.”
Beltran pledges to confront the leadership of his own party if he disagrees with their policies, but also notes he will work with Democrats:
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“Obviously, we’ve had Republicans who have also spent too much money. And so I’m going to go to Washington. I’m going to work with my party, and I’ll work across the aisle, and I’ll work with any administration that’s in power to identify waste, fraud, and abuse, identify unnecessary government programs, identify savings, and identify cost controls, and make sure that we are the fiscal conservatives that we say we are.
“That’s what’s necessary to save this country because we need to balance the budget and we need pay down the debt and we need to live within our means, because if we don’t balance our budget, then the budget will be balanced for us and it will be done when somebody cuts off our credit and people stop lending to us.”
Finally, as democratic socialist candidates have won Democratic primaries across the nation and in Florida, Beltran notes that Castor has consistently refused to condemn socialist ideology, or candidates with such views in her own party.
“We see Kathy Castor, who’s embraced Angie Nixon, who is one of those avowed socialist candidates. She said that her party was a big tent party, and that needs to be a very big tent to accommodate Angie Nixon…I’m not sure I’d like to be in a tent of any size with her, but my opponent welcomes her with open arms.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 19, 2026.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“And she’s going to vote in lockstep with these socialists, first to elect Hakeem Jeffries and then to appoint these socialists to committee chairmanships. She’s done very little to distance herself from the radicals within her party. Even as she masquerades recently as a moderate, she will empower the socialists.
“And that’s really what’s at stake in November. It’s not just me, it’s not just Kathy Castor, it is the direction of the country and whether we’re going to embrace these radical policies, or whether we are going to have economic growth and prosperity and safety here in the United States.”
David Unsworth reports on Latin America. You can follow David Unsworth on Twitter @LatinAmerUpdate
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