Let's see how Covid is going in Florida. Of course, DeSantis is trying to pretend that Covid doesn't even exist as more residents of his state land up hospitalized. 9 in 10 Floridians at ‘high’ risk of COVID as hospitalizations rise https://www.tampabay.com/news/healt...-high-risk-of-covid-as-hospitalizations-rise/
So after Congress demands that DeSantis explain his actions, the federal government threatens legal action, nearly every medical association in the U.S. speaks out against DeSantis, and party leaders chide DeSantis in private --- DeSantis reverses direction and decides he will allow children in Florida to have access to Covid vaccination according to the White House and media. Why does DeSantis hate the children and does not support parents rights to determine the medical care for their children? Does the entire country need to be outraged before he shows the least bit of common sense. Of course, his wacko press secretary denied that DeSantis is allowing the ordering of Covid vaccine after the information released from the White House. So the entire situation is still F-ed up beyond all belief. Maybe DeSantis believes that having the Feds coming down hard on Florida for failing the children will somehow help his political narrative for his 2024 ambitions. But screwing over parents and children is a sacrifice that DeSantis is willing to make -- especially since it is Democratic parent who tend to have their children vaccinated. Clyburn hits DeSantis: Reverse or explain ‘inexplicable’ decision over child COVID-19 vaccines https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...icable-decision-over-child-covid-19-vaccines/ Gov. Ron DeSantis Reverses Florida’s Vaccine Policy For Kids Following Pushback https://upolitics.com/news/gov-ron-...s-vaccine-policy-for-kids-following-pushback/
All this whining and shrieking is ridiculous. Parents can still get these shots if they ask their doctor or medical provider. No "choice" is being declined. You're nothing but bullshit and fake news, NPC. DeSantis Derangement Syndrome is a real thing, and there's no vaccine for it. Florida Health Policy, Not Biden Administration, Responsible for Vaccine Availability FL Children: Report TALLAHASSEE (FLV) – The Florida Department of Health told Florida’s Voice that their approach to vaccine recommendation and distribution is responsible for the wide accessibility of COVID-19 vaccines for parents, not the Biden Administration’s fast-tracking of vaccine rollouts. “The Florida Department of Health does not recommend COVID-19 vaccination for most children, and this is exactly why we put this process back into the hands of providers. This is a decision that needs to be made between parents and their child’s pediatrician,” they said. Florida’s Voice learned that the White House plans to take credit for Florida’s vaccine availability by citing their supposed ‘fast-tracking’ of the COVID-19 jab to Florida. “Contrary to disinformation circulated by the media and the White House, the vaccine ordering process has not changed in Florida. Health care providers have the ability to order FDA authorized COVID-19 vaccines through Florida SHOTS,” they continued. Since the early stages of the vaccine rollouts in the Sunshine State, Gov. Ron DeSantis prioritized vulnerable populations in distributing the vaccines. On Oct. 6, 2021, DeSantis touted putting “seniors first” was the “correct approach to vaccine distribution.” “As the COVID vaccines first became available, I made it clear that in Florida we were going to put Seniors First to make sure the most vulnerable received the protection they needed,” he noted. DeSantis explained that Florida always prioritized seniors: “Following Florida’s lead, earlier this year the federal government reversed course from prioritizing younger populations for vaccinations to recommending that states prioritize seniors age 65 and older. When I decided to put Seniors First, the data clearly showed that prioritizing vaccines for seniors would save the most lives. It was the right thing to do, and I am glad to see the federal government has continued to acknowledge this reality.” While Florida prioritized vulnerable populations, decisions of vaccination were left up to the parent and pediatrician, giving the elderly increased supply and availability. Study Finds Florida Handled COVID-19 Among the Best, California and New York the Worst This March, Florida’s Health Department released new guidance on COVID-19 vaccines for children, saying that healthy children aged five to 17 “may not benefit” from the currently available vaccine, and that the risks may outweigh any benefits. The Department lists multiple factors that “may” cause risks to outweigh benefits of the vaccine, including their already low risk of severe illness to COVID-19, high prevalence of immunity in children, absence of data supporting vaccination benefit on children with immunity, higher than anticipated adverse events in vaccine recipients, reduced efficacyin children 5-17, and the risk of myocarditis (heart inflammation) due to the vaccine. “In general, healthy children with no significant underlying health conditions under 16 years old are at little to no risk of severe illness complications from COVID-19,” the guidance said. A press release cited an HHS study that found Florida’s Senior First policy reduced senior infections by 17,000, hospitalizations by 6,700, and deaths by 2,400. DeSantis’ office also touted Florida as having one of the highest senior vaccination rates in the United Sates. Florida is the only sate to not order COVID-19 vaccines for kids aged five and under, continuing a data-based recommendation from the Florida Department of Health under Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo who advises against vaccinating young, healthy children. “There’s not going to be any state programs that are going to give COVID jabs to infants, toddlers and newborns,” DeSantis said. “That’s not something that we think is appropriate. So that’s not where we’re going to be utilizing our resources in that regard.” The Biden Administration encourages vaccinations for children, and the Food and Drug Administration authorized the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for children down to six months of age.
Study Finds Florida Handled COVID-19 Among the Best, California and New York the Worst WASHINGTON (FCV) – The Committee to Unleash Prosperity conducted a study on state performance during the COVID-19 pandemic on areas like economy, education, and mortality from COVID-19 and compared states, Fox News reported. It measured how well state governments handled the virus. According to Steve Moore, the co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, “Shutting down their economies and schools was by far the biggest mistake governors and state officials made during COVID, particularly in blue states, “We hope the results of this study will persuade governors not to close schools and businesses the next time we have a new virus variant.” According to the report, New York, California, New Jersey and Illinois were among the worst in dealing with COVID-19 – they performed “poorly on every measure.” The blue states “had high age-adjusted death rates; they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shut down much longer than almost all other states,” it said. However, in stark contrast, Florida, Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, and South Dakota – governed by Republicans – received the best scores, with Florida ranking 6th. Fox noted that of the top 15 states, 13 are governed by Republicans. The study found no correlation in states that enacted strict travel and dining restrictions with death counts. “The study verifies other studies which have found that locking down businesses, stores, churches, schools, and restaurants had almost no impact on health outcomes across states,” it went on. “States with strict lockdowns had virtually no better performance in COVID death rates than states that remained mostly open for business.” Governor Ron DeSantis very briefly halted various parts of the Florida economy early in the pandemic, but after just a few weeks, the Florida economy was broadly open and DeSantis regretted opposing lockdown rhetoric. He received strong criticism from left-wing leaders and pundits for opposing vaccine and mask mandates.
The ranting coming out of the mouths of DeSantis and his cronies over denying young children Covid vaccines in Florida each day reaches a new level of unhinged. We have seen DeSantis at least twice promoting that he fully supports the policy, followed by his cronies attempting to deflect by saying this was a health department policy and not DeSantis' fault. Well which is it? Is DeSantis responsible of not. We have seen DeSantis' cronies trying to say that Europe does not have vaccination for young children. Well, duh... the approval in the U.S. for ages 6 months to 5 years for Covid vaccines with all the submitted paperwork and studies is the first world-wide. The rest of the world has been waiting for the U.S. -- where the approval process was the furthest along. Then the DeSantis clowns switch to Europe does not recommend vaccines for children nonsense (not true currently) by citing odd statements over time. Collectively EU countries only recommended not using AstraZeneca due to safety concerns (blood clots) in younger people. To top it off, we have seen the DeSantis administration trying to claim that doctors can still get their hands on Covid shots for young children -- which the pediatricians themselves have stated emphatically is completely false. The initial distribution of Covid vaccines for young children will only come via the states. It will likely be many weeks or months before doctors can get any type of direct allocation. What ever happened to DeSantis' talking point that parents should be making health decisions for their children without interference and blocking from the government. Obviously this GOP talking point is pure horseshit that changes in an instant when an authoritarian wants to shut something down to advance their personal political career.
Let's see the type of person DeSantis typically recommends for positions in government. Florida Judge recommended by Ron DeSantis lied on an application to be on the state Supreme Court — a misdemeanor. Judge Renatha Francis lied on her application to join the Florida Supreme Court https://www.floridabulldog.org/2022...s-lied-on-application-florida-supreme-court/ Renatha Francis falsely certified on her application to join the Florida Supreme Court that she’s never been on the receiving end of an ethics complaint, a possible crime under Florida law. Francis, a family court judge in West Palm Beach said to be Gov. Ron DeSantis’s favorite for the job, answered “No” when asked: “Has a complaint about you ever been made to the Judicial Qualifications Commission?” If so, the applicant must provide details to the JQC, a state agency that investigates allegations of judicial misconduct. Francis signed the application which she submitted to the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission, declaring she answered all questions “truthfully, fully and completely.” In fact, at least one – and as many as three – JQC complaints have been filed against Francis. Florida Bulldog detailed one of those complaints, filed by Angela Bentrim of Loxahatchee, last week. A screenshot of Judge Renatha Francis’s Supreme Court application showing the JQC question and her answer. Making a “false official statement in writing with the intent to mislead a public servant in the performance of his or her official duty” is a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a fine of up to $500 under Florida Statutes Section 837.06. Francis did not respond to an emailed request for comment. JQC LETTER ABOUT CASE Francis’s Supreme Court application is dated May 18. Five weeks earlier, the JQC, the state’s judicial watchdog, sent a letter to Bentrim saying her ethics complaint against Francis had been “reconsidered” and rejected. Investigators looked at Bentrim’s complaint twice and “declined to take any further action,” JQC executive director Blan Teagle wrote in the April 12 letter. She’s the ex-wife in an ongoing post-divorce case on Francis’s Palm Beach Circuit Court docket. In response to emailed questions from Florida Bulldog, Teagle wrote that he could share only general information and nothing specific about the Francis complaint. The commission’s Investigative Panel reviews a complaint a second time when there’s a request for reconsideration, he said. Teagle would not address whether a Supreme Court candidate should be disqualified for certifying a false statement in an application. “The whole thing is a charade,” said Rep. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, in an interview with Florida Bulldog. “You don’t want a person who’s proven to be dishonest on the Florida Supreme Court.” But “the crux of the matter,” Thompson said, is whether Francis knew about any complaints that had been filed against her. “Did they inform her?” Under JQC rules, investigators must have informed her. The letter from Teagle to Bentrim indicates her complaint was reviewed twice. That cannot happen unless the judge who is the subject of a complaint is notified and offered an opportunity to respond. Thompson has said she’s aware of two more ethics complaints against Francis. At the end of Francis’s June 11 interview, Judicial Nominating Commission chair Fred Karlinsky asked her if there was anything concerning in her background. “I’ve been vetted a lot and there’s absolutely nothing in my background,” Francis responded. JNC DIDN’T ASK ABOUT FRANCIS COMPLAINT The Judicial Nominating Commission’s job is to scrutinize Supreme Court candidates. Were its members aware of the JQC complaint/complaints against Francis? No one asked Francis about it during her June 11 broadcast interview, and her application was misleading. Florida Bulldog asked Karlinsky, a partner in the Greenberg Traurig law firm, if he and the JNC were aware that a JQC complaint had been filed and whether that is concerning to him. He did not respond to requests for comment over two days. Bentrim’s complaint accused Francis of violating her due process rights. She claimed the judge failed to properly notify her in advance about dozens of hearings and other procedural matters, then ruled against her at every turn. Francis retaliated against Bentrim because she went to the Fourth District Court of Appeal and argued that Francis is biased against her, according to Bentrim. The higher court did not agree. During the two years Francis has overseen the Bentrim litigation, which dates to 2009, Angela Bentrim has appealed a half-dozen times. She was the clear winner in only one of those appeals, none of which was contested by her ex-husband, Jeffrey Bentrim. In a dissent to an order favoring Jeffrey Bentrim, senior appellate Judge Martha Warner criticized Francis for making factual findings without evidence to support them; also, for denying Angela Bentrim the right to mediate an issue even though the Bentrims’ marital settlement agreement requires mediation. The Bentrim case must have been top of mind for Francis when she filled out her Supreme Court application because she put it on a list of cases where she was reversed on appeal. On March 9, the Fourth District reversed Francis’s sanction of Angela Bentrim and upheld Francis’s refusal to sanction Jeffrey Bentrim in a fight about confidential records. DISPLAYING CONSERVATIVE CREDENTIALS At her JNC interview in Tampa, Francis, 45, showed why she’s a perfect fit for a court with a far-right agenda. Like his predecessor Gov. Rick Scott, DeSantis has stacked the court with ardently conservative justices, some of them young enough to reshape Florida law for decades to come. During her brief opening statement, Francis declared herself a believer in “textualism” and “originalism,” buzzwords for pledging her allegiance to conservative principles. Later she said she admires Chief Justice Charles Canady and Justice Ricky Polston, two prominent conservatives she hopes will soon be her colleagues. And Francis indicated she takes a reformer’s approach to settled law, or precedent. If a previous court “got it right,” she said, the precedent must be followed. But if an earlier ruling is “clearly erroneous,” the Supreme Court is duty bound to “revisit” the issue, especially when it involves the Constitution. Francis echoed a controversial opinion from January 2020, State vs. Poole, when the Supreme Court majority reversed a four-year-old precedent in a death penalty case. The majority accused the liberal 2016 court of ignoring “decades” of settled law by supporting jurors’ role in sentencing. “Under these circumstances, it would be unreasonable for us not to recede from [the previous court’s] erroneous holdings,” the unsigned opinion says. Justice Jorge Labarga dissented “in the strongest possible terms.” Labarga, the court’s lone remaining moderate, has sharply criticized his colleagues for disrespecting precedent in other cases as well. FRANCIS’S LAW SCHOOL NOW DEFUNCT One topic that came up during Francis’s JNC interview was her law school, Florida Coastal in Jacksonville. But the school’s recent history went unmentioned. Francis graduated in 2010; she finished in the top third of her class, she wrote in her Supreme Court application. She said during the interview that she chose Florida Coastal because the school offered her free tuition her first year. Since Francis’s time there, Florida Coastal has declined to the point where it’s best described as defunct. Though technically still accredited, the school stopped accepting new students a year ago. The for-profit school struggled to meet federal fiscal responsibility standards. Florida Coastal “operated recklessly and irresponsibly, putting its students at financial risk rather than providing the opportunities they were seeking,” Richard Cordray of the U.S. Department of Education said in a May 2021 news release. Florida Coastal was the last standing of three law schools in a consortium called The InfiLaw System. Before InfiLaw gave up its ownership of the Jacksonville school, it shuttered the Charlotte School of Law in North Carolina and Arizona Summit Law School in Phoenix.
DeSantis or his administration hasn't changed their tune once. Not a single time. Posting in colored, bold font doesn't make your post more truthful. It just makes you more hysterical.
More winning! New Florida Law Aims to Combat Organized Retail Theft Rings By Lydia Nusbaum June 20, 2022 Updated 1:48 P.M. ET TALLAHASSEE (FLV) – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation that helps Florida prosecutors dismantle organized retail theft rings. Cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco have seen an uptick in mobs stealing and raiding businesses. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody worked with lawmakers during the session to pass Senate Bill 1534 which gives prosecutors more tools to prosecute members of organized retail theft rings. “We continue to be proactive in making sure organized retail theft rings do not have a free pass to pillage retailers in Florida. While prosecutors in other states may turn a blind eye to these massive retail crimes, in Florida we enforce the law to protect our citizens and visitors,” Moody said. This new law will help us continue this important work and enhance public safety.” The new law creates second-degree and third-degree felony retail theft crimes for multiple retail thefts happening in a limited time period in different merchant locations. Under the new law, someone who steals 20 or more items, through five or more separate thefts within a certain period, can be charged with a second-degree felony. A person who steals 10 or more items, through at least five thefts within a certain period, can be charged with a third-degree felony. “Under the leadership of Attorney General Moody, Florida continues to lead the nation in the fight against organized retail crime. We thank Governor DeSantis and the Legislature for supporting and protecting Florida retailers,” said Florida Retail Federation President and CEO Scott Shalley. Rep. Chuck Clemons, R-Newberry, said prosecutors need tools to keep this “brand of crime” out of Florida. “The passage of this critical legislation sends out the strongest of messages that our state is not going to tolerate our communities’ retail establishments being terrorized,” Clemons said.
Every time you see Desantis , he has this vacant look on his map. Trump says he thinks he would win in potential 2024 matchup with DeSantis I don't know if Ron is running, and I don't ask him," Trump said. "It's his prerogative. I think I would win." "If I didn't endorse him, he wouldn't have won," Trump added, referring to DeSantis' successful bid for governor. Trump has said similar things in the past. In October, Trump said, "If I faced [DeSantis], I'd beat him like I would beat everyone else."