Category Ron DeSantis
DeSantis Twitter shot reinforces sad reality – Florida is no longer a destination for tech companies
Governor DeSantis centralized statist approach to governing and regulating business is right out of the playbook of Joseph Stalin. DeSantis said this on Tuesday:“We’re gonna be looking at ways the state of Florida potentially can be holding these Twitter board of directors accountable for breaching their fiduciary duty.” Problem is for DeSantis, Twitter is based […]
The DeSantis map – The Voting Rights Act, Fair Districts Amendment, African-American representation and the coming legal hurdles
Powerful Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s latest congressional redistricting map has taken center stage in political circles this week as Florida’s legislators gather in Tallahassee for a special session called by the governor to consider whether to adopt the new map. This the latest and most brazen map yet submitted by Governor DeSantis and his team […]
Dear Governor DeSantis – You may want to know the history of Catholics in Florida before you keep manipulating the teaching of history
Editors Note: Timing is everything. The below column ran about a year ago and got very little traction. But this week we have our ongoing Albion Florida podcast series, dealing coincidentally with Catholicism (podcast will release Tuesday and was taped a month ago) and the State of Florida, banning textbooks, albeit math textbooks. And it’s […]
Why are Florida Republicans ignoring the housing crisis?
While Governor Ron DeSantis plays performative artist, pushing bans on reproductive freedom, attacking the LGBTQ+ community, personally drawing a partisan reapportionment map and undermining workplace safety and freedom of speech, he’s ignored the raging housing crisis in the state. The cost of living has increased as has property insurance and especially rent. But the GOP […]
DeSantis map is flowing with hypocrisy and potential legal problems
Following up on my initial post from Wednesday night, the map proposed by Governor DeSantis is flowing with hypocrisy, if compact, race-neutral districts was really his goal. Here are some quick points: We discussed CD-14 last night. It’s a clear attempt to pack Democrats in a single district and dilute the voting strength of two […]
DeSantis lays the hammer down with his map – but look closely at CD-14…it undermines his case.
Two days after the legislature confirmed that Governor DeSantis, can continue to play god, by ceding its authority to draw the state’s Congressional Districts, the Governor produced a map which would push the GOP’s partisan advantage to 20-8 if each seat went according to form. It would also wipe out at least two majority-minority access […]
On April 11, it was confirmed that representative democracy is dead in Florida – The Orbán model that DeSantis built is now complete
In the other forty nine states, Congressional maps in reapportionment are either drawn by legislators, independent commissions or courts – except of course those states that have only one Congressional District. But in Florida, that power now rests with one man – Governor Ron DeSantis. In Florida, the State Legislature has as of Monday April […]
“New Cold War” coming if Georgia elects Stacey Abrams? Florida previously had years of hot wars with Georgia
Governor DeSantis on Friday claimed if Georgia elected Stacey Abrams as Governor, a Cold War looms between the states. “If Stacey Abrams is elected governor of Georgia, I just want to be honest, that will be a cold war between Florida and Georgia,” The Governor sais. Georgia and Florida have been, very recently locked in […]
NYC v Florida – DeSantis will rack up yet another W
New York Mayor Eric Adams may have just made Ron DeSantis an even bigger juggernaut in the Sunshine State. DeSantis specializes in attacking elites and western democracies abroad, New York and California while pushing racially & gender-coded rhetoric that even Donald Trump would not get away with. Adams decision to place advertisements on billboards in […]
TFS+ – Disney v DeSantis: The Governor’s assault on local government and the history of special taxing districts and public benefit corporations
Over at TFS+ , Tim Smyth sat down with Kartik Krishnaiyer to discuss Governor DeSantis recent usurpation of local government authority as well as the history of special taxing districts & public benefit corporations. With Governor DeSantis advocacy of repealing Disney’s special status in Florida, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Tim Smyth sat down to discuss the […]
The Florida Squeeze 