"DeSantis for the win" -- He is violating both Florida's sunshine laws and the first amendment by excluding particular press outlets for official acts of state. Experts explain how DeSantis violated the Constitution by blocking outlets from bill signing https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/ron-desantis-first-amendment/ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) turned heads on Thursday, May 6 when he only allowed Fox News to cover his signing of the state's newly-passed voting restrictions bill. Now, experts say he may have violated the U.S. Constitution by doing so. DeSantis' move blocked all news outlets from covering the bill signing with the exception of Fox News. And it may be a violation of the First Amendment, according to Pamela Marsh, the executive director of the open-government advocacy firm First Amendment Foundation. On Friday, May 6, Marsh offered her assessment of DeSantis' stunt during an interview with The Tampa Bay Times. "The law leaves no question as to the impropriety of banning certain media while allowing only friendly media," said Marsh. "That is viewpoint and content discrimination." Prior incidents of similar nature also affirm that elected officials have no authority to prohibit specific news outlets from releasing reports on public events simply for the sake of preference. The Tampa Bay Times highlighted a number of past incidents where First Amendment violations were identified. When a local mayor in Louisiana attempted to exclude news reporters from certain publications from attending press conferences in the 1980s, he ended up in court. A federal judge ultimately ruled in favor of the publications, deeming the mayor's actions, "the essence of censorship forbidden by the First Amendment and so abhorred by the founding fathers." Then in 2007, a federal judge in Ohio ruled against a former Toledo mayor who refused to notify certain radio stations prior to his news conferences. In that case, the federal court insisted that the mayor was attempting to "manage the news by manipulating who comes to hear what's to be said and therefore who reports it." In DeSantis' case, the publication notes that the signing of the bill is considered a "public proceeding." Clay Calvert, a law professor at the University of Florida, weighed in with his take on the ordeal as he agreed that it does appear to fall under First Amendment violations. "Unless you're watching Fox, you're going to be denied access to information," Calvert said. "That's troubling regardless of the First Amendment issues."
People are dying like flies in Florida but Jem will want to dissect and deny this report word for word, to shield his hero .......DeSantis.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida Department of Health released the data as a part of a legal settlement with the Orlando Sentinel after the paper sued in March to obtain a county breakdown of variant cases. A judge ended up agreeing with the paper’s claim that the data was vital “to understand how the virus continues to spread and affect Floridians.” Florida reports more than 10,000 COVID-19 variant cases, surge after spring break Variant COVID-19 infections skyrocketed following spring break in Florida and there have been more than 10,000 variant cases reported throughout the state, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported based on data from the Florida Department of Health. A total of 753 variant cases from three strains -- the B.1.1.7, the P.1, and the B. 1.3.5.1. -- were reported on March 14, according to variant infection data shared with ABC News. The Florida Department of Health does not disclose variant cases on its public dashboard. That number swelled to 5,177 cases from five types of variants on April 15. Just two weeks later, the number of variant infections exploded to 9,248 on April 27, according to local ABC affiliate , WFTV. The surge falls in line with mid-March into April spring break celebrations, when college students and vacationers flock to the sunshine state. Florida is home to the most variant COVID-19 cases in the country. State health officials reported more than 11,800 cases of COVID-19 variants on Wednesday, according to the Sun Sentinel. In total, variants have led to the hospitalization of 243 residents and the death of 67 people in Florida, the Sun Sentinel reported. Only 1% of all COVID-19 cases in Florida undergo testing to study their genetic coding, meaning the number of variant infections is likely much higher than reported. The data regarding variants was first released Monday hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the lift of all local COVID-19 restrictions.
So no wager, then? I can always tell when you're back peddling because you can't answer a yes or no question without paragraph upon paragraph of "justification".
The cruise industry is shortly going to demonstrate that Ron is their little biatch. How is that for a short form of the statement.
It's much shorter. But still lacks whether you would wager on it. Apparently you won't (or won't answer that question - shocking).
Your wager is if the cruise industry is going to sail from Florida. No takers on this. They will sail from Florida AFTER they demonstrate that Ron is their little biatch.
Ok, so your claims that the cruise industry would leave Florida are, like many other claims, horseshit. Got it. I don't give a shit if DeSantis backtracks or not. I care if the cruise industry leaves Florida - which I said was very unlikely (it is).