It was carried into the ER on a litter and pronounced “really, really, dead on arrival.” Florida House Bill 7, a Gov. DeSantis venture passed in 2022, in essence banned critical race theory from schools and DEI training from workplaces, characterizing these forms of education as discrimi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Florida’
July 26th, 2024 - 11:49 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
What just happened to Florida’s “anti-woke” law?
July 19th, 2024 - 6:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOPers hijack ballot statement on Florida abortion rights
Florida Republicans tried but failed to keep an abortion rights initiative off the November 2024 ballot, losing by 4-3 in the state supreme court (read the court’s opinion here). It would amend the state constitution as follows: “SECTION __. Limiting government interference with abortio[...]
Florida’s gunning for “Cocaine Bear”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “signed a bill on Friday that makes it legal for people to kill ‘crack bears’ in self-defense,” News Nation reported on Sunday, June 23, 2024 (read story here). The story continues, “The bill was dubbed ‘the cocaine bear bill’ on so[...]
June 13th, 2024 - 12:00 am § in Environment, Politics
Florida’s social contract with climate change
Opinion by the Miami Herald Editorial Board, June 12, 2024: “It’s like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their h[...]
June 1st, 2024 - 2:32 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP campaign ad, circa 2024
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May 22nd, 2024 - 9:43 pm § in Politics, Republicans
DeSantis escalates war on rainbows
Gov. Ron DeSantis is escalating his war on Pride by imposing more political color correctness on Florida. As part of his relentless campaign to turn gay people into non-persons, he banned rainbows from schools (see my posting here). Now they’re banned from bridges, too. NBC News reports (her[...]
Colorado offers new evidence the GOP is turning off its own voters
Do Republicans’ problems go beyond voter antipathy to Trump? Is the GOP a Superfund site? At this point, that’s a belief and attitude among Democrats, but there’s not a lot of hard evidence. GOP candidates underperformed in 2022, but the high-profile losers were almost exclusively [...]
DeSantis does squat for non-wealthy Floridians
Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, who wants to be president, is wildly popular at the ballot box in his home state. One wonders why. While the stereotypical Floridian is a well-heeled East Coast retiree, in reality Florida ranks in the bottom third of average household incomes, and DeSantis has done almost[...]
Florida bans Ruby Bridges movie
A couple days ago, I posted that Florida banned a book about Rosa Parks for school libraries (see posting here). Now, Florida has also banned a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the little black girl in the Norman Rockwell painting below (read story here). Why? Because “a parent complained ab[...]
Florida bans “The Life of Rosa Parks”
Technically, it’s under review. But the book was pulled from school library shelves months ago, which effectively prohibits students from reading it, unless they obtain a private copy here. (Read story here.) Florida is a retirement haven for rich (and not-so-rich) East Coasters. The stateR[...]