“In a move that escalated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fight over mask mandates,” the governor threatened Monday “to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who disregard the governor’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates for school districts,R[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Florida’
“Governor Death” allows parents to defy school mask rules
Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded his war against public health by declaring “he will sign an executive order to ‘protect the rights of parents’ and allow them to choose whether their children should wear masks even if their school requires them to do so,” The Hill reported on Frid[...]
A short lesson in federal supremacy
Florida Governor Death Vader’s anti-mask, anti-vaccine policies are squarely at odds with the pro-survival approach championed by the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the conflict came to a head in a battle over cruise ship regulations in a federal courtroom where a Bush-appointe[...]
America’s worst governor declares, “I have only begun to fight”
“The applause for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from a ballroom full of Republican activists was loud and long — and it happened before the Florida governor even took the stage. … “With more than 40 months before November 2024, in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, the race for[...]
May 16th, 2021 - 1:21 pm § in Law and Courts
Ex-deputy accused of planting drugs during traffic stops
He was a bad cop, but a Florida sheriff hired him anyway, after another sheriff fired him, and it didn’t go well for that sheriff, either. Zachary Wester, 28, began his police career in Liberty County, pop. 8,354, in 2015. He lasted less than a year, and his boss warned the sheriff of neighbor[...]
Cruise line quits Florida over vaccination gag order
Florida’s GOP governor has prohibited businesses from asking patrons if they’ve been vaccinated. Norwegian Cruise Lines says it won’t do business there. The CDC, a federal agency in the forefront of the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic, won’t allow cruise lines to opera[...]
States’ rights … to be reckless
The phrase “states’ rights” used to refer to southern-Democrat segregation policies. Now it refers to Republicans-everywhere fecklessness. Conceptually, states’ rights is a subset of federalism, which has to do with the allocation of power between federal and state government[...]
Florida’s vaccinations of the elderly descend into chaos
“Florida’s county-by-county plan to vaccinate its elderly population has created a mass scramble for a limited number of doses, leading to hourslong lines at vaccination sites and overwhelmed county hotlines and websites,” CNN reported on Wednesday, December 30, 2020. One[...]
Florida Gov. DeSantis “put politics ahead of lives”
Ron DeSantis arguably is the most execrable politician sitting in a governor’s mansion since Maine’s Paul LePage (both are Republicans). Earlier this month, I wrote about DeSantis’s “swatting” of a former state employee who blew the whistle on his efforts to cover up th[...]
Did GOP governor SWAT Covid-19 whistleblower?
Police raided the home of an ex-Florida official who refused to censor the state’s coronavirus data, “escalating a feud between the state government” and a whistleblower “who has accused officials of trying to cover up the extent of the pandemic,” CNN reported. [...]