California Senate candidate Barbara Lee once praised Fidel Castro as 'a smart man'
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California Democrat Rep. Barbara Lee filed her paperwork to run for outgoing Senator Dianne Feinstein's seat, but her praise of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may come back to haunt her.
"I was very sad for the Cuban people," the California Democrat said upon learning of Castro’s death. Houston Keene is a politics writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Houston.Keene@Fox.com and on Twitter: @HoustonKeene
The Cuba Archive project estimated that by November 2016, nearly 11,000 deaths had been caused by the Castro regime.
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