Ron Desantis 2024

[Dr. Ken]

What a way to waste 150 million dollars.

GOD what I could do with only 100 grand

Australia Powerball is 150mil this week

They call it powerball there? I would have thought they'd have a more interesting name for it.

[tek]

Ron DeSantis has revised his entry music

[Flatpoint High]

Ron DeSantis has revised his entry music

[Frater I*I]

Australia Powerball is 150mil this week

What's that like a 100k US compared to the Monopoly money you use down there...

I kid...

[AndyinPA]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... egislation

‘We can lose more freedoms’: Florida braces for Ron DeSantis’s wrath after national rout

As the governor trudges back to finish his term, questions arise about his extremist agendas that failed to capture national interest

Ron DeSantis has fallen off the national stage and the US will not, after all, become Florida like he once envisaged. But back in his home state, opponents are bracing for the return of the Republican to serve the remainder of his final term as governor following the implosion of his presidential campaign.

Florida is where DeSantis honed his extremist attacks on a wide range of targets from the transgender community to immigrants and Black voters. Although he will no longer be carrying them to the White House, critics here say there’s probably plenty more to come.

“He’s gonna come home with a vengeance. He’s going to try to regain the mantle that he had after [his re-election in] November 2022. And he’s going to try to bring everybody back together and continue on this anti-woke, anti-democratic, anti-freedom platform,” Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democratic party, said.

“The question will be: ‘What do the Republicans do?’ Rank-and-file Republicans in Florida, elected as well as grassroots, are not having any of it. But there are those in higher-up elected positions that still have to reckon with the fact that he’s going to be governor for the next few years and are going to have to play ball in order to get their priorities accomplished.”

[keith]

Australia Powerball is 150mil this week

What's that like a 100k US compared to the Monopoly money you use down there...

I kid...

It jackpotted to 200mil this week.

[Rolodex]

I hope FL can come up with a super strong Democratic candidate. I'm in SW FL right now and have seen quite a few DeSantis stickers along with some turmp ones.

[Slim Cognito]

SWFL is a red hell hole. I know. I live here.

[raison de arizona]

Word on the street is that Casey DeSantis refuses to fly anything but private, and as a result the DeSantis campaign has spent more on private planes than it has on advertising.
The Top 10 catastrophic failures of the Ron DeSantis campaign

[AndyinPA]

Good article.

[bill_g]

Well, she would have loved her coronation as queen if her husband had succeeded. How unfortunate for her. I am sure she would have been a fair and just royal.

[Dave from down under]

She would have had more chance of being elected than Ron..

She could have been the power on the throne,
Rather than the power behind a failed claimant to the throne.

[Suranis]

"Florida Governor supports his wife as she makes bid for presidency" could have been a good story. You could have stories like "I think she would be a better fit for the job than me as I focus on the people in my state," etc.

[RTH10260]

How Ron DeSantis’s ‘chilling’ anti-immigration law hurts Florida workers
A judge blocked the governor’s law making it a felony to knowingly transport undocumented people, ruling it exceeds state authority

Richard Luscombe
Thu 6 Jun 2024 14.00 CEST

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump will this week decide whether to reinforce his ban on a key part of Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s “callous” anti-immigration law after handing the extremist Republican a humiliating courtroom defeat last month.

The Miami district court judge Roy Altman has invited written arguments from both sides after ruling that the “human smuggling” clause of a sweeping immigration bill DeSantis signed into law last year exceeded the state’s authority.

Section 10 of the law makes it a felony for anybody, even US citizens, to knowingly transport an undocumented person. It was touted by DeSantis as a robust response to “Joe Biden’s border crisis”, but assailed by representatives of Florida’s legions of immigrant farm workers for its cruelty.

It also sparked a diplomatic spat with the government of Mexico, which accused the DeSantis administration of “discrimination and racial profiling”.

“This callous and blatantly unconstitutional law’s effect has been pretty devastating for our plaintiffs and for farm workers and immigrants across the state,” said Spencer Amdur, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s immigration rights project, representing the Farmworker Association of Florida.

“It’s prevented people from doing things like visiting their families, in Florida and other states; it’s prevented people from going to work and putting food on the table; it’s prevented people from engaging in their religious practice.

“Those were all harms that our plaintiffs were experiencing while the law was in effect, and that the judge cited in blocking it. It was just such a clear and on-point ruling from the circuit court that basically states have no business enacting laws like this.”

With the injunction in place, law enforcement, including the Florida highway patrol (FHP), can no longer stop and detain drivers suspected of carrying undocumented riders. About a dozen people were arrested after the law took effect on 1 July last year, including Raquel López Aguilar, a 41-year-old from Mexico, who was stopped by an FHP officer last August while driving a minivan containing immigrant roofers. He has been incarcerated in the Hernando county jail ever since.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... w-florida-