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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now he's vetoed funding for the Tampa Bay Rays because they tweeted about gun safety

[twitter]https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/1532828197884248065[/twitter]

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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.......

[quote]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.[/quote]

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

[twitter]https://twitter.com/AaronParseghian/status/1532747675636051969[/twitter]

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

[quote]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."

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

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