DeSantis gets his butt kicked in court again. How many times is this consecutively -- several dozen or more. Whether it is the cruise industry or election districts -- Desantis has no "winning" -- even in courts with the majority of judges appointed by Republicans. Desantis loses over and over again. Florida high court refuses DeSantis request on redistricting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...hassee-florida-republican-black-b2012403.html
"Butt kicked". The court said the issue was too complicated to simply grant an advisory opinion. I guess when you're a DeSantis hater, you gotta take what you can get and call it a victory. Not all that much to stake your claim on.
So in summary -- The Florida Supreme Court rejected Ronnie again. He must be filling dejected after being branded with a big L over & over.
No, in summary it was exactly as the article you posted said. The court said the issue was too complicated to issue an advisory opinion. You should start to send DeSantis some bills for the amount he lives rent free in that studio apartment brain you've got.
Let's see what @Tsing Tao's hometown paper has to say... Col. Klink and the Orlando Nazis Where have you gone Gov. DeSantis? https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/02/10/col-klink-and-the-orlando-nazis-column/ Poor Ron DeSantis. The Wee Willie Winkie of Tallahassee was miffed. This hapless chap cannot catch a break. There they were, a bunch of redneck neo-Nazis tormenting and attacking a Jewish college student in Orlando, followed by hanging vile anti-Semitic banners over an Interstate 4 overpass. And before you knew it, some folks wondered if perchance the governor of Florida might find time out of his busy schedule trying to get all those pointy-headed university professors to stop talking about racism in American history to acknowledge Nazis running around Orlando are, well, you know — bad. Instead the Blue Boy of the Apalachee Parkway saw an evil plot afoot in an attempt to lure him into a trap that risked espousing an original thought. And he was having none of it. Reacting to calls from the likes of, well Jewish people, who might have appreciated their governor decrying Nazis, not exactly a Sir Thomas More moment, DeSantis stood foursquare in not taking the bait. Instead DeSantis lashed out, accusing those wanting him to condemn Nazis as an effort to “… smear me as if I had something to do with it.” Now there was a profile in gibberish for you. Ahem, we’re talking Nazis here. How tough can it be to take a bold stand against Nazis? This shouldn’t require conducting focus group research. Nobody, not even the harshest critics of the Trump Mini Me, had suggested in any way that he was responsible for a gaggle of goober goose-steppers on the loose in Orlando. This is Florida after all, where all manner of white supremacists, Klan types, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, gun nuts and your general run of the mill omnibus crazies are more common than palm trees. It is sort of part of the job description that when horrible things happen in the state people look to the governor to at the very least say a horrible thing has happened. Too subtle? Indeed, DeSantis took the soft-ball opportunity to suggest these Third Reich rednecks were a disgrace to humanity, by pivoting to attack Democrats for trying to use the presence of a bunch of Bund bozos in Orlando as “… some type of political issue. We’re not playing that game.” But governor, could you at least play with a full deck? Just asking. Even the governor’s crack spokeswoman Christina Pushaw couldn’t resist channeling her inner Baghdad Bob, wondering, “Do we even know they’re Nazis?” Perhaps they were actually Democrats posing as Adolf Hitler to embarrass the governor? Uh, Ms. Pushaw, your boss does an able enough job embarrassing himself all on his own, without the help of Democrats. What would it have taken to convince her? Did the Orlando oberfuhrers need to annex Yeehaw Junction to establish their bona fides as jack-booted boobs? You can rest easy, gentle reader, eventually Pushaw later said activities of the Sunshine State Swastikas crowd were “disgusting.” Whew, now we can sleep a little better. You know a hurricane could hit the state and Tallahassee might be a tad slow in mobilizing its emergency protocols. Fair enough. A mass shooting could occur and it might take a while to gather all the facts before a governor makes a public statement. Fine. Stuff happens. But a sitting governor and his public relations flack ought to be able to react pretty quickly when Nazis in Orlando are assaulting Jews and hanging anti-Semitic banners over an interstate highway. Perhaps DeSantis, R-Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me?, was merely getting in touch with his inner more sensitive, caring Percy Dovetonsils in taking some time to condemn Nazis. After all, Governor Snowflake has been leading the charge during this year’s legislative session, otherwise known as “Take A Lobbyist To Work,” to inveigh against stuff like critical race theory being taught in the state’s classrooms because learning about the history of systemic racism in the nation’s history might hurt someone’s (see: white people) feelings. Rather, or so the thinking goes, if there is racism, or anti-Semitism, or any other form of hate, it is hardly institutional but merely the dark handiwork of the individual. There was no red-lining by banks. It was all “It’s A Wonderful Life’s” Mr. Potter’s fault. There was no widespread Jim Crow racism. It was all George Wallace’s plot. He’s the one. He’s the one you want. There was no institutional segregation either. It was all Strom Thurmond’s doing. And maybe there were really no Nazis afoot in Orlando. It was all Col. Klink’s malevolence. It was Col. Klink all along.
DeSantis played that whole character smear attempt perfectly. The media would accuse him of supporting Nazis the same way they did Trump, despite Trump having said over and over and over again how he condemned white supremacy. But they still ran with the narrative. They're like you - they don't listen to any facts, they just make shit up as they go. So DeSantis said the obvious - that he had nothing to do with it and wasn't going to partake in the commentary. Good for him.
Ronnie should go visit Marjorie Taylor Greene -- maybe she can help him buffer up his Gazpacho. After all you know how much he wants his own special state force.
Do you mean DeSantis' Staatspolizei that will be enforcing the election laws or the brown-shirt organization he wants to start to clear the streets of anyone who disagrees with him.
The tweeting, deleting operative who does DeSantis’ distorting https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opi...0220211-7hujv6ovg5fy7iqogxw4jbk37y-story.html Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, attends a press conference as the governor announces the opening of a monoclonal antibody treatment site for COVID-19 patients at Lakes Church in Lakeland. Pushaw has previously seen her Twitter account temporarily suspended for encouraging harassment and has used the account to attack journalists and question whether neo-Nazis rallying in Orlando were planted by Democrats. (SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty)(SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) Christina Pushaw is a combative, divisive and highly partisan political operative whose keyboard rants carry great weight for one reason: She’s the governor’s press secretary. When she tweets and retweets, likes and dislikes, she’s speaking on behalf of Ron DeSantis, the governor of the third-largest state and a likely 2024 presidential candidate. True to her flawed form, Pushaw implied on Twitter that neo-Nazi demonstrators in Orlando might be Democrats in disguise. They were not, of course, and she soon deleted the tweet. (The Sun Sentinel has asked for all of her deleted tweets, contending they were public records created by a state employee. So far, no response. No surprise.) The deletion only called more attention to how her boss wouldn’t say anything about the repugnant outburst of racism in one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. When he finally did, it was to wallow in pretentious self-pity, complaining that Democrats were “trying to smear me as if I had something to do with that.” No one suggested anything of the sort. DeSantis’ silence was the issue — and Pushaw’s knee-jerk response highlighted it. Nazi ideology, the greatest evil in modern history, committed the genocidal murder of millions and devastated Europe with war and is resurgent in the U.S. The numbers may be relatively small, but antisemitic attacks are rising. History demands, and Americans expect, that their leaders denounce Nazi racism whenever it erupts from the sewer. Other Florida politicians in both parties spoke up swiftly and loudly against the outrage in Orlando, making DeSantis’ silence all the more conspicuous. Nazism and other manifestations of white nationalism are a clear and present danger here, encouraged by the former president’s remark about “fine people” among the “Unite the Right” thugs at Charlottesville four years ago. A Palm Beach County rabbi, Jeffrey Salkin of Temple Israel, called Pushaw’s comments “reprehensible.” The rabbi, who’s also a columnist for Religion News Service, told POLITICO: “This is the time for the public to be aware of the dangers of anti-Semitic extremism and not to traffic in the denial of that extremism.” In an era of endless spin, Pushaw takes things to new lows. She lights up social media with incendiary and off-base remarks that would have embarrassed previous governors and gotten press aides fired. DeSantis seems to relish them, and that’s the problem. Twitter suspended Pushaw for 12 hours for violating rules on “abusive behavior” in her criticism of an AP story last summer linking DeSantis’ largest campaign contributor with investments in Regeneron, a drug the governor was promoting for COVID-19 treatment. She warned the reporter that if he didn’t retract it, she would “put you on blast” and retweeted: “Light. Them. Up.” AP said the reporter was a target of threats and stood by its story. She set off a firestorm of criticism in November after peddling a conspiracy theory that linked new COVID-19 rules in the Republic of Georgia with a visit by a member of the Rothschild banking family. She took down that post and said she had not known that the Rothschilds have been perpetual targets of antisemitic propaganda. She accused Ben Frazier, a Black social organizer in Jacksonville, of intending to disrupt a DeSantis press conference where he was handcuffed and charged with trespassing for demanding to talk to the governor about his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Frazier, she said, “is an activist, not a member of the press,” which should not have mattered. The trespassing charge was quickly dropped. After Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried compared DeSantis to Adolf Hitler, Pushaw attacked the media as “DNC stenographers,” a partisan slur that referred to the Democratic National Committee. (This newspaper’s opinion page editorialized against Fried’s comments.) She retweeted a post that said, “The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to make it so that people in Florida die of COVID. They’ll kill people to harm Republicans.” Often too quick on the draw, she attacked Glenn Kessler, a respected Washington Post fact-checker, for Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, MSNBC analyst and critic of Donald Trump. Yes, she deleted it. The traditional role of the governor’s press secretary is to announce, explain and defend policies and field inquiries. The prudent ones usually kept in the background and let the boss do the talking. Pushaw is a one-off spokeswoman who strays far beyond that. She verbally attacks private citizens, picks fights with the media, and routinely blasts the Biden administration. She’s a full-time propagandist for DeSantis’ ambitions, and he gets to stick Florida taxpayers with her $120,000 salary. DeSantis, who seems to regard his reelection this year as a given and as a way station to the presidency, should pay Pushaw from his political committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis. He can afford it and it’s an abuse of the public treasury to make taxpayers pick up the tab for her daily partisan warfare. A freelance journalist previously published in conservative media like Human Events Pushaw hitched herself early to DeSantis’ rising star. Before asking him to hire her, she auditioned of sorts, with articles attacking Rebekah Jones, a DeSantis critic fired from her job at the Department of Health and charged with illegally accessing state computers. Pushaw and DeSantis rarely miss an opportunity to elevate his profile by attacking Democrats and the national media. “If the corporate press nationally isn’t attacking me, then I’m probably not doing my job,” DeSantis has said. In many respects, he’s mimicking the divisive tactics that Donald Trump used to win the presidency, where he boosted DeSantis to the governor’s mansion from an obscure seat in Congress. DeSantis doesn’t bother to deny that the White House is his goal, and he won’t rule out running against Trump himself in 2024, which means that the platform for Pushaw’s distortions, attacks and flouting of Florida’s public records law may only get bigger.