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NYPD officers moving to Florida in droves

CBS New York
21 Dec 2022

Trained in New York but working in Florida? Many NYPD officers are handing in their badges and then heading south. For a little over a year, Florida's governor has been luring them, and now moving companies are even partnering with him.

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White House blasts DeSantis for deploying National Guard to deal with Cuban migrants

Alexander Nazaryan·Senior White House Correspondent
Thu, January 12, 2023 at 12:15 AM GMT+1

WASHINGTON — In the midst of implementing its own controversial new program for dealing with the flow of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, the White House on Wednesday criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida for deploying the National Guard to handle the arrival of undocumented immigrants from Cuba.

“We are talking about people who are coming from countries, who are dealing with political strife,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at Wednesday’s press briefing. “They’re trying to find asylum — and he’s treating them like pawns.”

She charged that DeSantis was “not dealing with the problem. He’s actually creating a problem.”

Last week, DeSantis deployed the National Guard to deal with what his office described as an “alarming influx of migrants landing in the Florida Keys,” though it was unclear just what the Guard’s role would be.

According to the governor’s office, 300 migrants fleeing Cuba and other countries landed at Dry Tortugas National Park last week, and another 45 made landfall at Key West.

DeSantis’s office did not answer a Yahoo News request for comment. But when he deployed the Guard, the governor lambasted the White House.

“As the negative impacts of Biden’s lawless immigration policies continue unabated, the burden of the Biden administration’s failure falls on local law enforcement who lack the resources to deal with the crisis,” he said.

The governor’s move came after President Biden announced a new “parole” plan that would allow up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to receive asylum in the United States, provided they applied from their home countries via smartphone app, without making a perilous overland journey to the border. The plan also includes an agreement from Mexico to accept 30,000 deportees from those countries apprehended in the United States.




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I give it a week before DeSantis starts stacking shipping containers in the Strait of Florida.
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Judge rejects DeSantis administration’s bid to toss lawsuit over migrant flights

Mary Ellen Klas
Fri, January 13, 2023 at 9:36 PM GMT+1

A Leon County Circuit Court judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis brought by a North Miami Beach state senator who has accused Florida’s governor of illegally using taxpayer funds to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts last September.

Judge John C. Cooper set a Jan. 30 trial date to hear the constitutional challenge brought by Sen. Jason Pizzo, a Democrat who is suing in his capacity as a private citizen. Cooper rejected attempts by DeSantis’ lawyers to dismiss the case, although he did agree to release Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis as a defendant.

Pizzo argues that the 2022-23 state appropriations bill that financed the controversial flights improperly used the budget to create a substantial new program instead of authorizing it through a separate law. Under long-standing principles of the Florida Constitution, substantial policies and programs must be first authorized in a separate law so that they can be widely discussed and reviewed by lawmakers.

DeSantis signed the budget on June 8, including the provision that allocated $12 million in interest the state earned from COVID relief funds to pay for “relocation services” run by the Florida Department of Transportation “to facilitate the transport of unauthorized aliens from this state.”

Records obtained by the Florida Center for Government Accountability, the Miami Herald, and other news organizations have shed light on the covert operation involving the governor’s staff, who worked with a politically connected vendor to wriggle around the budget requirement that Florida use the money to export Florida migrants — not those living in some other state.

Pizzo argues that in addition to violating the Constitution by using the budget language to create a new program, the Florida Department of Transportation violated another law when it created written “guidelines” for the contract, rather than requiring vendors to submit a sealed bid as is required by state law for contracts over $35,000.



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FL could pay attorneys nearly $1.5M for lawsuit defense over migrant flights

Wed, January 11, 2023 at 4:53 PM GMT+1

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is turning heads again over his decision to privately fly nearly 50 asylum-seeking migrants in Texas to the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard back in September. This time, it’s over costs Florida taxpayers are expected to pay for state officials, including the Governor, to legally defend themselves in court over the headline-making move. “We take what happens at the southern border very seriously, unlike some,” Governor DeSantis said back in September after taking credit for the controversial flights.



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DeSantis' 'Freedom Blueprint' for Florida is taking shape, and it's widely viewed as paving the way for a 2024 presidential run

Kimberly Leonard
Sat, January 14, 2023 at 2:30 PM GMT+1
  • DeSantis will be laying out his second-term 'Freedom Blueprint' in the weeks ahead.
    It's widely viewed as a blueprint for the
    He has already made some of his intentions clear, on areas from Disney to anti-China policy.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rocketed to Republican stardom thanks to his high-profile battles with the Biden administration, the millions he raised from donors, and his policies in Florida.

Today, he's the only Republican that polls close to former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 nomination race for the White House.

After handily winning reelection in November, his work in Florida isn't finished. The next few months of proposing and implementing his agenda are widely viewed in political circles as representative of the issues DeSantis plans to run on if he seeks the GOP nomination.

"I think you have seen that over the last four years when we say we are going to get something done we get it done," DeSantis said during a press conference Thursday.

DeSantis, 44, has an enviable perch for a presidential run in his role as Florida's chief executive, one that includes a supportive GOP supermajority in the legislature that's likely to be deferential to his agenda.

More specifics about what the governor has called his "Freedom Blueprint" are expected in the weeks ahead, including when DeSantis delivers his State of the State address ahead of Florida's legislative session that begins in March. In that speech, he'll formally ask state lawmakers for changes to policy and the budget.

From cutting taxes to new policies on schools, here's what DeSantis has said so far about what Floridians should expect this year. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.




https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-fre ... 00992.html
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I really liked this opinion piece by Lulu Garcia-Navarro in The New York Times. I'm including a gift link, and quoting a few paragraphs that I was very surprised by -

Republicans Are Getting It Wrong About DeSantis and Florida

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While my home state’s popularity might indeed seem like good news for a governor with presidential ambitions, a closer look shows that Florida is underwater demographically. Most of those flocking there are aging boomers with deep pockets, adding to the demographic imbalance for what is already one of the grayest populations in the nation. This means that Florida won’t have the younger workers needed to care for all those seniors. And while other places understand that immigrants, who often work in the service sector and agriculture, two of Florida’s main industries, are vital to replenishing aging populations, Mr. DeSantis and the state G.O.P. are not exactly immigrant-friendly, enacting legislation to limit the ability of people with uncertain legal status to work in the state.

All of the new arrivals have contributed to a growing unaffordability crisis in Florida. You can see it everywhere, but I noticed it most distinctly on a recent visit to the waterfront in the popular neighborhood of Coconut Grove in South Florida. Over the holidays, I went to what had once been a beloved bar and casual restaurant called Scotty’s Landing. It had been one of the few affordable places left to have a bite on Biscayne Bay, and it’s where I had spent many Sundays listening to live music while sitting on white plastic chairs, eating fried fish sandwiches. It is now home to a vast complex centered on a high-end restaurant inspired by the motto “vacation as a state of mind” topped by an Instagramable sign flashing “Miami” in neon lights. Eighty-year-old wooden bungalows nearby now go for almost $2 million, and glitzy new projects have moved into historically Black neighborhoods like Little Haiti, pushing out local people.

While Mr. DeSantis has been busy limiting what can be taught in schools, flying immigrants to Northern states and punishing “woke” Disney, working-class Floridians are being priced out of many Florida cities. Miami now surpasses Los Angeles and New York City as the least-affordable city for housing in the United States, and joining it in the top five is the once working-class South Florida Cuban-American bastion of Hialeah. Miami is also second in income inequality, with levels roughly comparable with Colombia’s and Panama’s. Rents are soaring across many other parts of the state as well. And health care costs are unbearably high compared with those in other parts of the country because workers in the state have to shoulder a higher percentage of premiums.
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Desantis announces he will seek to have the legislature authorize him to appoint a State Board to take over the district where Disney World has had self-governing authority since it was created.
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RTH10260 wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 2:00 pm
FL could pay attorneys nearly $1.5M for lawsuit defense over migrant flights

Wed, January 11, 2023 at 4:53 PM GMT+1

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is turning heads again over his decision to privately fly nearly 50 asylum-seeking migrants in Texas to the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard back in September. This time, it’s over costs Florida taxpayers are expected to pay for state officials, including the Governor, to legally defend themselves in court over the headline-making move. “We take what happens at the southern border very seriously, unlike some,” Governor DeSantis said back in September after taking credit for the controversial flights.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/fl-could-pay ... 54409.html
(original: WSFL)

A state that spends $35,000 for a coach ticket from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard when Jet Blue would do it for $88 isn't worried about legal bills.
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Brand new item! ‘Kids Guide to Ron Desantis’
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"Mike Huckabee, Co-founder, The Kids Guide"

Really?

Seriously?
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tek wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 2:50 pm "Mike Huckabee, Co-founder, The Kids Guide"

Really?

Seriously?
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Everything does these days, but this will likely be another thing that infuriates the orange marmalade. Huckabee had a "kids guide to President Trump" out a few years ago. He will see this as a betrayal.

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/politics ... index.html
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced a policy proposal banning many pandemic mitigation efforts involving mask mandates and vaccine requirements in the state.

The proposal would permanently prohibit Covid-19 vaccine passports in Florida, prohibit Florida schools from instituting Covid-19 vaccine or mask requirements, forbid businesses in the state from requiring masks and bar “employers from hiring or firing based on mRNA jabs.”

“When the world lost its mind, Florida was a refuge of sanity, serving strongly as freedom’s linchpin,” DeSantis said in a news release. “These measures will ensure Florida remains this way and will provide landmark protections for free speech for medical practitioners.”

DeSantis has been an outspoken critic of most Covid-19 pandemic mitigation measures. In December, he asked the Florida Supreme Court to approve an investigation of “any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to Covid-19 vaccines.”

In the petition filed with the court, the Republican governor requested the empaneling of a grand jury to investigate a broad group of entities associated with the development, distribution and promotion of the vaccines, including pharmaceutical manufacturers and their executive officers, as well as medical associations.
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'Makes him look very small': GOP strategists question DeSantis’ 'ridiculous' anti-woke campaign against the NHL
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DeSantis’ latest target is the National Hockey League (NHL). As he sees it, the NHL’s push for diversity is an example of “wokeness.” But some GOP strategists, according to Daily Beast reporter Jake Lahut, are questioning the wisdom of making the NHL a target of his “anti-woke” wrath.

Lahut, in an article published by the Beast on January 18, explains, “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is squaring off with an unlikely opponent: the NHL. In the latest battle of the culture wars, the NHL — where gloves-off fighting still brings just a five-minute penalty, where the player base is 93 percent white, and until the hiring of Mike Grier by the San Jose Sharks earlier this month, there had yet to be a Black general manager in the history of the sport — has somehow become the new epitome of woke culture gone awry.”

The DeSantis Administration, according to Lahut, “got the NHL to fold on a local hiring event aimed at diversifying the league’s workforce ahead of its annual All-Star Game.” In an official statement released on Friday, January 13, DeSantis spokesman Bryan Griffin said of the NHL, “Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic.”
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Stevens told the Beast, “I've been in these rooms where political consultants get together, they try and say, ‘Well, what can we do to appeal to white voters without being just super-blatantly racist?’…. Republicans are losing culture wars at an exponential speed…. What the NHL is doing bothers absolutely nobody in America. A lot of politics is defining yourself by what you’re not for.”

Stevens, who worked on the presidential campaigns of President George W. Bush, now-Sen. Mitt Romney and the late Sen. John McCain, added, “There was a time with Ronald Reagan, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’ So, here’s Ron DeSantis standing in front of a hockey rink in Florida saying, what, exactly? I mean, it’s just ridiculous. It makes him look very small.”
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Here's hoping DeSantis gets waaaaaay out over his skis...

seems to be heading in that direction..
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The dude is already pissing off goddam Disney. How much more of a hole does he need to dig? Taking on Sports is just another rung on the ladder of arrogance that this buffoon is scaling.
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Yeah, but everyone knows the NHL is just a bastion of Affirmitave Action. I mean, they even play some foreign National Anthem before the games, like, is that even legal?
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DeSantis Blocks AP African-American Studies Course for Breaking Florida’s Anti-CRT Law
‘LACKS EDUCATIONAL VALUE’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected a College Board request to approve an African-American Studies course in his state on the grounds that the course violates state law, according to a report. The Advanced Placement (AP) program, of which a pilot has been launched, was reportedly rejected by DeSantis’ administration in a letter to the College Board from the Florida Department of Education’s Office of Articulation. The rejection letter dated Jan. 12 said “as presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value,” according to National Review. The letter reportedly added: “in the future, should College Board be willing to come back to the table with lawful, historically accurate content, FDOE will always be willing to reopen the discussion. DeSantis’ controversial “Stop W.O.K.E. Act,” signed into law last April, aimed in part to combat the teaching of critical race theory in Florida.
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Any governor, political by nature, should have no say over the content of college studies.
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To be clear, AP courses are Advanced Placement Courses that one takes in high school to earn college credits (after taking a test specific to the course work)— so these are high school level courses. (I took every test I could for college credits and, being good at taking tests, started at Texas A&M with 62 hours).

I still agree it is not the governor’s place to jump in.
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DeSantis seeks details on transgender university students

BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Thu, January 19, 2023 at 1:13 AM GMT+1

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number and ages of their students who sought gender dysphoria treatment, including sex reassignment surgery and hormone prescriptions, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Why he's conducting the survey wasn't completely clear. DeSantis has been criticized by LGTBQ advocates for policies seen as discriminatory, including banning instruction on sexual and gender identity in early grades and making it easier for parents to remove books related to the topic in public schools.

“We can see cuts in funding for universities to treat students with this condition, and I think an all-out elimination of services is certainly on the table,” said House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell.

The survey was released the same day the university presidents voted to support DeSantis’ anti-woke agenda and to reject “the progressivist higher education indoctrination agenda” and committing to “removing all woke positions and ideologies by February 1, 2023,” according to a Department of Education news release.

The survey is being sent to the university board of trustee chairs by DeSantis’ budget director, Chris Spencer.

“Our office has learned that several state universities provide services to persons suffering from gender dysphoria," Spencer wrote. “On behalf of the Governor, I hereby request that you respond to the enclosed inquiries related to such services.”

The governor's office did not respond to emails and a phone call seeking information about the purpose of the survey, which must be completed by Feb. 10. Spencer told the chairs the survey is to be completed as part of their obligation to govern institutional resources and protect the public interest.

Driskell said DeSantis is trying to remake the state's universities “in his own image” as far as what can be taught and how students can be treated.




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HIPAA?
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tek wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:01 amHIPAA?
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I will admit that I'm wondering how the university would have such info under HIPAA. Unless it was a university medical center or something providing the treatment. Or does the article cover this and I just have to read the damn thing?
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