DeSantis and FL moving to hammer Disney

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people want Special Olympics participants punished for not vaccinating? What if they can’t medically?

Then they will have a documented medical exception.

Really?

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Anonymous wrote:Not just corporations that DiSantis is targeting.

this is dispicable

No, it's not "despicable." It is in violation of FL's law.
Glad FL stood up for the athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want Special Olympics participants punished for not vaccinating? What if they can’t medically?

Then they will have a documented medical exception.

Really?

How did they know he would have a reaction if they had never taken the vaccine? It is not a debate that some people can have a reaction it’s just that the number is so small that the benefits outweigh the risks. Nobody forced this athlete to get the vaccine. It was a choice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not just corporations that DiSantis is targeting.

this is dispicable

No, it's not "despicable." It is in violation of FL's law.
Glad FL stood up for the athletes.

Yes it’s despicable because DeSantis is harming public health in order to pander and exploit a political wedge issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Not just corporations that DiSantis is targeting.

this is dispicable

Special Olympics committee should have pulled the events and planned for next year in a different state. It would not have been the first time Olympics have been canceled or postponed.

+1. A lot of Special Olympians are high risk for Covid complications, I would imagine. Unbelievable.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want Special Olympics participants punished for not vaccinating? What if they can’t medically?

Then they will have a documented medical exception.

Really?

How did they know he would have a reaction if they had never taken the vaccine? It is not a debate that some people can have a reaction it’s just that the number is so small that the benefits outweigh the risks. Nobody forced this athlete to get the vaccine. It was a choice.

These stories are just dumb. My sister was hospitalized after her first dose but still got a second dose. Because even with the reaction, the risk of the vaccine reaction was better than the risk of Covid. The anti-vaccine folks are just dumb.

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Now he's vetoed funding for the Tampa Bay Rays because they tweeted about gun safety

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Everything is political for Ron. Everything is a political opportunity.

Gun safety is not political. COVID vaccines are not political. Health and safety are not political.

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Anonymous wrote:Now he's vetoed funding for the Tampa Bay Rays because they tweeted about gun safety

Of course the media will link the veto to the comments made by the TB Rays.

What they WON'T mention is that he planned to veto the funding prior to the comments made by the Rays and he also vetoed more than $3.1 Billion in spending.......

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he opposes tax dollars going to professional sports stadiums in explaining his decision to veto a $35 million budget proposal that was expected to benefit the Tampa Bay Rays.

DeSantis, who made the veto Thursday as he signed a $109.9 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, said cutting the stadium funding “was just a decision that was going to be made.” In all, DeSantis issued more than $3.1 billion in vetoes.

The Rays-related proposal was listed in the budget as “Sports Training and Youth Tournament Complex” in Pasco County, without mentioning the baseball team. But the money was expected to help cover a new spring-training facility for the Rays.

During an appearance Friday in Orlando, DeSantis said “we were not in a situation where use of tax dollars for a professional stadium would have been a prudent use,”

As he signed the budget and issued vetoes during a ceremony Thursday in The Villages, DeSantis pointed to a need to further brace the state’s reserves against a potential recession. Some of the largest vetoes included $650 million for a new 4,500-bed prison; $195 million for construction of a prison hospital; $75 million for the University of South Florida to build an Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences Research and Teaching Facility; $50 million for construction of a courthouse for the new 6th District Court of Appeal; and a $1 billion pot of money to serve as a hedge against increased government costs driven by inflation.

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/politics-issues/2022-06-03/veto-pasco-sports-complex-rays-desantis-objects-stadium-funding

He also vetoed funding for two new airplanes for govt. officials.

Pushaw also drew attention to one of the governor's other vetoes, in which he rejected a measure to acquire two new airplanes to be used by government leaders. The proposal would have meant spending $20 million for a pair of state-owned jets.
"The Legislature passed SB 2512, which in part, creates the executive aircraft pool for two new aircrafts that could be utilized by over 100 government officials, available 24/7, 365 days a year, requiring additional 17 staff positions within the Department of Management Services for the purpose of providing multiple state-owned aircrafts for executive air travel," DeSantis wrote in a letter explaining his decision to Secretary of State Cord Byrd.
"This is an inadvisable expense, especially under current economic conditions, and could have unintended consequences given the breath of the officials included in the authorization," the governor added. "For this reason, I withhold my approval of SB 2512 and do hereby veto the same."

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/politics/desantis-veto-planes-rays-facility/67-1455cfe0-ebeb-45bd-b880-2169581373b3

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Desantis is a major supporter of Cancel Culture.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now he's vetoed funding for the Tampa Bay Rays because they tweeted about gun safety

Of course the media will link the veto to the comments made by the TB Rays.

What they WON'T mention is that he planned to veto the funding prior to the comments made by the Rays and he also vetoed more than $3.1 Billion in spending.......

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he opposes tax dollars going to professional sports stadiums in explaining his decision to veto a $35 million budget proposal that was expected to benefit the Tampa Bay Rays.

DeSantis, who made the veto Thursday as he signed a $109.9 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, said cutting the stadium funding “was just a decision that was going to be made.” In all, DeSantis issued more than $3.1 billion in vetoes.

The Rays-related proposal was listed in the budget as “Sports Training and Youth Tournament Complex” in Pasco County, without mentioning the baseball team. But the money was expected to help cover a new spring-training facility for the Rays.

During an appearance Friday in Orlando, DeSantis said “we were not in a situation where use of tax dollars for a professional stadium would have been a prudent use,”

As he signed the budget and issued vetoes during a ceremony Thursday in The Villages, DeSantis pointed to a need to further brace the state’s reserves against a potential recession. Some of the largest vetoes included $650 million for a new 4,500-bed prison; $195 million for construction of a prison hospital; $75 million for the University of South Florida to build an Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences Research and Teaching Facility; $50 million for construction of a courthouse for the new 6th District Court of Appeal; and a $1 billion pot of money to serve as a hedge against increased government costs driven by inflation.

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/politics-issues/2022-06-03/veto-pasco-sports-complex-rays-desantis-objects-stadium-funding

He also vetoed funding for two new airplanes for govt. officials.

Pushaw also drew attention to one of the governor's other vetoes, in which he rejected a measure to acquire two new airplanes to be used by government leaders. The proposal would have meant spending $20 million for a pair of state-owned jets.
"The Legislature passed SB 2512, which in part, creates the executive aircraft pool for two new aircrafts that could be utilized by over 100 government officials, available 24/7, 365 days a year, requiring additional 17 staff positions within the Department of Management Services for the purpose of providing multiple state-owned aircrafts for executive air travel," DeSantis wrote in a letter explaining his decision to Secretary of State Cord Byrd.
"This is an inadvisable expense, especially under current economic conditions, and could have unintended consequences given the breath of the officials included in the authorization," the governor added. "For this reason, I withhold my approval of SB 2512 and do hereby veto the same."

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/politics/desantis-veto-planes-rays-facility/67-1455cfe0-ebeb-45bd-b880-2169581373b3

He's the one who linked vetoing the Rays funding to their tweet. The media didn't make that up. I actually agree with not funding the stadium - but not like this. He's the one who made it like this. Punishing companies for free speech - and such anodyne speech at that.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2022/06/03/desantis-on-rays-gun-violence-tweets-no-funding-for-political-activism/

Asked about the Rays’ tweets and his subsequent veto, DeSantis made clear that he doesn’t “support giving taxpayer dollars to professional sports stadiums, period,” and “that was just the decision that was going to be made.” But he added that private companies shouldn’t get state money to propagate political views of any stripe.

“Companies are free to engage or not engage in whatever discourse they want, but clearly, it’s inappropriate to be doing taxpayer dollars for professional sports stadiums,” he said. “It’s also inappropriate to subsidize political activism of a private corporation. So I think either way, it’s not appropriate.”

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Time to boycott Florida until he’s gone! Florida will go broke without tourist dollars

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Anonymous wrote:Time to boycott Florida until he’s gone! Florida will go broke without tourist dollars

Good luck. People are moving to Florida in droves.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Time to boycott Florida until he’s gone! Florida will go broke without tourist dollars

Good luck. People are moving to Florida in droves.

Why would you want to educate your children in Florida schools? They get to college and the other kids are all knowledgeable about toni morrison and other important banned authors and the floridaa kids are ignorant rubes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Time to boycott Florida until he’s gone! Florida will go broke without tourist dollars

Good luck. People are moving to Florida in droves.

Why would you want to educate your children in Florida schools? They get to college and the other kids are all knowledgeable about toni morrison and other important banned authors and the floridaa kids are ignorant rubes.

Florida kids who grow up in educated households will be just fine, same as kids anywhere growing up in an educated household. It's the kids who are trying to do better than their parents who are really going to suffer under these idiotic book bans. It's basically a form of class oppression.