Rebekah Jones has filed to run against DeSantis's BFF Matt Gaetz. This means that DeSantis has to follow the law he just signed and sue Twitter for deplatforming Jones. Her campaign website - https://www.rebekahjonescampaign.com/
Conservatives need to rally behind Desantis. He could beat Biden or Harris. Trump should do the right thing and step aside. Trump has done more harm to conservatives than anyone in history.
Conservatives just need to run a new face, someone with experience, with a platform of no nonsense, no fringe placating, pro American blue collar worker. Biden and Harris will do all the work convincing them to walk away from the DNC.
Florida lawmakers 'dumbfounded' after Desantis vetoes bipartisan bill that would have expunged minors' records https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/desantis/ The bipartisan initiative would have offered a reprieve for nearly 27,000 minors. However, that small glimmer of hope was abruptly taken away when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) unexpectedly vetoed the bill. According to The Tampa Bay Times, a bipartisan group of lawmakers have shared their reactions to DeSantis' decision to veto a bill that would have expunged criminal records for thousands of minors across the state. "I am, frankly, dumbfounded… I don't understand why you wouldn't give an opportunity to a kid to remake their life," said Sen. Annette Taddeo, who co-sponsored Senate Bill 274. (More at above url)
Prolly lobby money from the "pre-crime" Florida companies/police departments I posted about a while ago on here.
Yo, dawg, I heard you like deplatforming, so a federal judge deplatformed law banning deplatforming. Federal judge puts Florida 'deplatforming' law on hold, citing First Amendment Former President Donald Trump helped to inspire the law, which would impose penalties of up to $250,000 a day for a social media platform that bans a political candidate. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-n...orming-law-hold-citing-first-amendme-rcna1288 In other news... I guess Rebekah Jones not be getting $250,000 per day fines imposed on Twitter.
Great job, Ron. Florida leads nation with more than 50 Capitol riot arrests https://www.wspa.com/news/florida-leads-nation-with-more-than-50-capitol-riot-arrests/
Why won’t DeSantis give Florida a shot in the arm? https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinio...0210706-zh6vpfanp5b6xlf4fdigaigqn4-story.html When it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations, Florida is failing — like most Republican-led states. As of Tuesday, according to Becker’s Hospital Review, Florida ranked just 26th in percentage of population fully vaccinated. Slightly more than 46% of the state’s residents have had both shots. Over the weekend, Republican governors of Arkansas, Utah and West Virginia urged residents to get vaccinated. They noted polls showing widespread Republican opposition to the vaccine. Jim Justice essentially pleaded with fellow West Virginians to save themselves from themselves. Even as the more contagious Delta variant rises in Florida, Gov. DeSantis has shown no similar urgency about the virus. He’s been saving Florida from other menaces. Thanks to DeSantis and the Legislature, Floridians won’t have to worry about indoctrination of students in critical race theory. The students will be indoctrinated only as DeSantis and Republicans want them indoctrinated. DeSantis has been saving the state from election fraud that he can’t identify. Female high school athletes are safe from transgender competition that hasn’t happened. DeSantis also wants to save Florida from efforts by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help the cruise ship industry reopen safely. The governor sued the CDC, claiming that vaccination requirements discriminate against children and, without DeSantis saying, Republican anti-vaxxers. Yet Royal Caribbean just announced that non-vaccinated passengers must buy travel insurance to cover $25,000 in medical expenses and pay for on-board COVID-19 testing. The company is restricting activities for the unvaccinated. Will DeSantis now sue Royal Caribbean? From the start, the way out of the pandemic has been vaccines. Now that multiple effective shots are available to so many, the state and country should be much closer to the end than we are. DeSantis could help. But while the vaccinated governor has recommended that Floridians get vaccinated, he hasn’t pushed to raise the state’s numbers. DeSantis lost interest after his rush to get those 65 and over vaccinated. Without the state’s lopsided senior population, vaccination numbers would be even worse. So as DeSantis claims that Florida “has so much immunity,” Covid Act Now ranks Florida’s risk as High. Infections are spiking among the unvaccinated. Florida lags because DeSantis is running for president. He won’t confront the Trump cultists. In the 17 counties where Trump got the highest percentages, fewer than 30% of residents had received at least one shot by late May. Florida thus aligns with GOP sentiment nationwide. According to a recentWashington Post-ABC News poll, 45% of Republicans are unlikely to get a vaccine. Among Democrats, only 6% plan to refuse. Of the 21 states that lead in vaccination rates, 18 have Democratic governors. The exceptions are Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, all states that President Biden won. Unlike DeSantis, those GOP governors don’t grovel before the insurrectionist former president. Massachusetts’ Charlie Baker supported Trump’s impeachment for his Jan. 6 attempt to subvert the Constitution. New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu called the Capitol mob “domestic terrorists.” The 15 states that trail in vaccination rates have Republican governors. Trump won all of them except Georgia. In last-place Mississippi, the rate is less than 30%. One might argue that vaccine hesitancy among African-Americans, not just Trump voters, brings down the rates in some GOP-led southern states. But Utah (43rd) and Idaho (46th) have tiny percentages of African-American residents. The development and rollout of vaccines validates the science-based response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week came news that those who received theModerna and Pfizer vaccines may not need booster shots for years. Yet the longer it takes to achieve herd immunity, the greater the risk of an especially dangerous variant emerging. The next big inflection point will come when vaccines become available for children younger than 12. Will the vaccinated DeSantis work to persuade parents that the shots are safe and the best way to fully open schools? Or will he side with the minority that opposed the masks that helped to keep Florida’s death rate at a middling 24th? As he courts the Trump cultists for 2024, DeSantis is failing Florida today.