'Dictatorial' Ron DeSantis blasted over 'legally suspect' state attorney suspension DeSantis is waiting for his handlers to tell him what to say. A few hours after Warren's appearance on CNN, the South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board blasted DeSantis for his "legally suspect" decision. "DeSantis is driven by partisanship and a zeal to use the powers of his office to silence critics — and wants voters to give him four more years in November so he can continue to run roughshod over his critics. Who’s next?" the editors wrote.
Let's see what is up with voting in DeSantisLand.... Florida Republicans targeted Black voters, justice department says in filing The agency claims the restrictions, including a ban on providing water and food to those lining up to vote, are racially motivated https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/17/florida-republicans-black-voters-justice-department
First... Wall Street firms had to put Florida over their knee and educate the DeSantisLand crowd that banks would no longer support bond issuance in Florida if the state backed out of the RCID agreement with Disney -- forcing DeSantis and his legislature to back-down and quietly announce they would merely rename the Disney RCID district next year. Now little Ron is picking a fight with Wall Street banks over their investment strategies and trying to force new rules on them --- simply to further his political career. This will not end well for Ron. Of course, he will quietly back down after making a big fuss. After all this is just posturing by DeSantis. DeSantis' proposed new rules for pension investments push Florida into fight against Wall Street https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/politics/desantis-pension-rules-esg-investing/index.html
Fidel De Santis announces the his Voter Suppression Police have claimed their first victims, charging 20 former felons with voting illegally. Oddly all of them from Democratic stronghold counties in Florida. The Authoritarian did not even send his secret election police to perform any investigations in Republican counties. Florida officials arrest and charge 20 people with illegal voting, DeSantis says https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...rge-20-people-with-illegal-voting/ar-AA10Okzy
20 felons whose voting rights were restored by the democratic will of the people of FL and DeFascist and his congress goons stripped back by imposing a poll tax. But you knew that already GWB and were on board w/disenfranchisement:
Let me state that I generally do not support the restoration of voting rights for felons -- I would support exceptions for non-serious ("E class") felonies plus exceptions for restoration of rights for pardons, etc. plus exceptions when the felon pays the victim back fully for financial crimes, etc. We have had discussions on this subject in the past. However the real problem in the U.S. history of not allowing voting rights for felons is the association with the deliberate disfranchisement of blacks from voting in the 1860s/1870s. There is an underlying need to ensure in the modern era that disallowing the vote for felons is not being used to disfranchise a group of voters in a targeted manner -- but is merely an alignment of defined rules for felony offenders (for example in the same manner that those released for sex crimes must register as sex offenders for life based on their crimes). IMO the rules on voting rights for felons should not be done state-by-state but defined at a national level with clear oversight and rules -- so every state has the exact same voting rules in regards to felons.
Ron DeSantis just had a very bad day https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-2657885189/ To be fair every day in Florida with Ron DeSantis is a bad day for the majority of the residents.