Everything that made it a purple state is being systematically dismantled.
Has he killed enough of his supporters yet to cover that .4%?DeSantis only won 49.6 to 49.2
Everything that made the US democratic is being dismantled. Florida is just overachieving.Everything that made it a purple state is being systematically dismantled.
DeSantis only won 49.6 to 49.2
I get that; what I mean is that "Trans people not only have the right to get a sex change, we should give it to them for free, funded by taxpayers" seems like it would have been seen as the kind of radical idea that even Democrats wouldn't be unanimously in favor of until extremely recently, if that.Florida was at one time a purple state.. it's slide into right wing extremism is somewhat recent.
Records obtained through a series of public-records requests show that DeSantis’ office recently developed a sweeping plan to overhaul higher-education oversight in Florida. The governor’s proposal would have centralized more power in boards run by the governor’s political appointees, made colleges and universities more dependent on money controlled by politicians in Tallahassee, and imposed more restrictions on what schools can teach.
The DeSantis plan would have even stripped university presidents of the ability to hire professors.
Higher education isn’t the governor’s only potential target.
The records show that DeSantis’ staff also drew up proposals targeting newspapers, state attorneys and school boards. They devised plans to take control of everything from local toll-road agencies to high-school sports. And amidst it all, they wanted to make it harder to legally challenge the governor’s own authority.
All these ideas were included in legislation drafted at the request of the governor’s office in the weeks leading up to the 2022 legislative session, which began in January and ended in March. The drafts surfaced in post-session public-records requests seeking copies of communications between DeSantis’ office and the Legislature.
Only a few fragments ultimately made it into bills that were passed into law, though it’s not clear whether that was because DeSantis decided not to pursue them right now or whether legislative leaders privately objected.
But DeSantis could resurrect any of them in the future — whether through executive edict or, if he is re-elected this fall, in future legislative sessions. The governor’s office declined to answer questions about DeSantis’ intentions.
But even if he decides not to do anything further, the DeSantis drafts offer a window into the thinking of one of the most powerful Republican politicians in the United States — one who is widely expected to run for president in 2024.
In a scoop that seems to have been hand-fed to the conservative sports publication Outkick, DeSantis plans to veto a $35 million bill subsidizing the Tampa Bay Rays spring stadium. Subsidies for sports franchises are highly controversial, but there is no pretense that DeSantis is acting out of fiscal conservatism or principled libertarianism. The story reports plainly that he is retaliating against the franchise for its expressions of support for gun control: “DeSantis’s decision is in response to the Rays politicizing recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde ahead of a matchup with the Yankees in May.”