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It has less to do with that and more to do with the breakdown of the nuclear family. It all traces back to fathers staying home and raising their children. Single income families will never escape pov

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I really try to consider every opinion with an open mind, realizing we all have different values, thought processes, cultures, etc. But some of you make this so fucking difficult. I am a school cou

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'Desantis Using Taxpayer Funds to Campaign Against Abortion Referendum'

https://meidasnews.com/news/desantis-using-taxpayer-funds-to-campaign-against-abortion-referendum

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Ron Desantis has shown he will stop at nothing to get his way. 

He threatens to primary Republicans in the legislature when they draw a redistricting map he doesn't like, he revokes Disney's charter because they criticized him, he removes elected prosecutors he doesn't agree with. Now he is resorting to the same tactics to get his way with Florida's abortion referendum (Amendment 4), which is favored by a strong majority of voters.

First, Desantis tried to block to Amendment from even appearing on ballot in the first place by challenging it through the courts. He complained this week bitterly when his all-Republican state Supreme Court approved the amendment:

Then Desantis pushed through a bogus "economic impact" statement to be placed on the ballot next to the Amendment, which reads like a Desantis propaganda memo. You can read about that here:

Desantis Trying to Rig Abortion Referendum

Then, Desantis sent out teams of investigators from his "election crimes" police force to knock on doors to question whether voters who signed petitions to get the amendment on the ballot committed fraud. These investigators were sent to heavily populated Democratic areas. You can read about that here:

Desantis "Reviewing" Signatures on Abortion Ballot Petitions

But the forth thing that Desantis is doing to fight the amendment is possibly the most brazen and blatantly illegal step he has taken so far. This past legislative session, Desantis slipped into the budget a line for $1 million in funding to go to the state Agency for Health Care Administration for "marketing and outreach" for the state's 'Health Finder' website.

Since the Amendment has been approved, this state public health website has been turned into a Desantis propaganda machine against Amendment 4.  The site began running this ad against the Amendment along with other materials on the website.

This action taken by Desantis appears to clearly violate Florida Statute 104.31, which prohibits any state employee, elected official or appointee from using taxpayer funds for political advocacy.

104.31 Political activities of state, county, and municipal officers and employees.—(1) No officer or employee of the state, or of any county or municipality thereof, except as hereinafter exempted from provisions hereof, shall:

(a) Use his or her official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or a nomination of office or coercing or influencing another person’s vote or affecting the result thereof.

(b) Directly or indirectly coerce or attempt to coerce, command, or advise any other officer or employee to pay, lend, or contribute any part of his or her salary, or any money, or anything else of value to any party, committee, organization, agency, or person for political purposes. Nothing in this paragraph or in any county or municipal charter or ordinance shall prohibit an employee from suggesting to another employee in a noncoercive manner that he or she may voluntarily contribute to a fund which is administered by a party, committee, organization, agency, person, labor union or other employee organization for political purposes.

Ron Desantis will stop at nothing to defeat this amendment. That is because he wants to make this a campaign issue when he runs for president again in 2028. He wants to make the case to Republican primary voters that he was able to block an abortion amendment in his state where other Republican governors failed. 

With just over a year year left in Desantis's reign of right-wing madness, his final act just might be the most repulsive.

 

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  • Governor Robert Ritchie, R-FL : My view of this is simple: we don't need a Federal Department of Education telling us our children have to learn Esperanto, they have to learn Eskimo poetry. Let the states decide, let the communities decide on health care, on education, on lower taxes, not higher taxes. Now, he's going to throw a big word at you - "unfunded mandate." He's going to say if Washington lets the states do it, it's an unfunded mandate. But what he doesn't like is the federal government losing power. But I call it the ingenuity of the American people.

    Moderator : President Bartlet, you have 60 seconds for a question and an answer.

    President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. "Unfunded mandate" is two words, not one big word. There are times when we're fifty states and there are times when we're one country, and have national needs. And the way I know this is that Florida didn't fight Germany in World War II or establish civil rights. You think states should do the governing wall-to-wall. That's a perfectly valid opinion. But your state of Florida got $12.6 billion in federal money last year - from Nebraskans, and Virginians, and New Yorkers, and Alaskans, with their Eskimo poetry. 12.6 out of a state budget of $50 billion. I'm supposed to be using this time for a question, so here it is: Can we have it back, please?

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9 minutes ago, pacman said:

It's amazing the far right idiots continue to set the bar lower and lower..

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This is Fascism. I know it doesn’t seem as scary.

Florida isn’t rounding up Jews by the 10’s of millions. It isn’t waging war.

But this is what it is. You think this is ok? sure. But it will come for you if you don’t toe the line.

Descent won’t be tolerated so you better get on board with everything. Everything.
 

Your kids birthday parties? Toe the line.

Your Reddit posts? Toe the line.

Your banter after drinks on thanksgiving? Toe the line.

That’s where this leads. 

 

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On 9/27/2024 at 3:31 PM, Mo Horn said:

Sorkin knows what's what

  • Governor Robert Ritchie, R-FL : My view of this is simple: we don't need a Federal Department of Education telling us our children have to learn Esperanto, they have to learn Eskimo poetry. Let the states decide, let the communities decide on health care, on education, on lower taxes, not higher taxes. Now, he's going to throw a big word at you - "unfunded mandate." He's going to say if Washington lets the states do it, it's an unfunded mandate. But what he doesn't like is the federal government losing power. But I call it the ingenuity of the American people.

    Moderator : President Bartlet, you have 60 seconds for a question and an answer.

    President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. "Unfunded mandate" is two words, not one big word. There are times when we're fifty states and there are times when we're one country, and have national needs. And the way I know this is that Florida didn't fight Germany in World War II or establish civil rights. You think states should do the governing wall-to-wall. That's a perfectly valid opinion. But your state of Florida got $12.6 billion in federal money last year - from Nebraskans, and Virginians, and New Yorkers, and Alaskans, with their Eskimo poetry. 12.6 out of a state budget of $50 billion. I'm supposed to be using this time for a question, so here it is: Can we have it back, please?

 

On 9/27/2024 at 4:12 PM, South Austin said:

Fuck yeah, President Bartlet.

That's the kind of exchange I expect when President Buttigieg is debating Gov. Gaetz in the lead up to PB's reelection in 2036.

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On 9/27/2024 at 1:31 PM, Mo Horn said:

Sorkin knows what's what

  • Governor Robert Ritchie, R-FL : My view of this is simple: we don't need a Federal Department of Education telling us our children have to learn Esperanto, they have to learn Eskimo poetry. Let the states decide, let the communities decide on health care, on education, on lower taxes, not higher taxes. Now, he's going to throw a big word at you - "unfunded mandate." He's going to say if Washington lets the states do it, it's an unfunded mandate. But what he doesn't like is the federal government losing power. But I call it the ingenuity of the American people.

    Moderator : President Bartlet, you have 60 seconds for a question and an answer.

    President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. "Unfunded mandate" is two words, not one big word. There are times when we're fifty states and there are times when we're one country, and have national needs. And the way I know this is that Florida didn't fight Germany in World War II or establish civil rights. You think states should do the governing wall-to-wall. That's a perfectly valid opinion. But your state of Florida got $12.6 billion in federal money last year - from Nebraskans, and Virginians, and New Yorkers, and Alaskans, with their Eskimo poetry. 12.6 out of a state budget of $50 billion. I'm supposed to be using this time for a question, so here it is: Can we have it back, please?

Please note that Robert Ritchie is also kid rock’s real name. 

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DeSantis and Florida must be running scared about the abortion amendment. Perhaps polls showing they’re going to lose. However states legislatures often find methods to ignore public referendums especially if they feel voters have short memory.

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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

DeSantis and Florida must be running scared about the abortion amendment. Perhaps polls showing they’re going to lose. However states legislatures often find methods to ignore public referendums especially if they feel voters have short memory.

It’s probably too close to the election for them to do much and they risk a backlash if they remove it, and on top of that they’ve got a bigass hurricane bearing down on them again, which means they’ll have to beg the feds for help.

I have no doubt the polls are bad for the, hence their attempt at censoring the TV networks.

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It’s probably too close to the election for them to do much and they risk a backlash if they remove it, and on top of that they’ve got a bigass hurricane bearing down on them again, which means they’ll have to beg the feds for help.

I have no doubt the polls are bad for the, hence their attempt at censoring the TV networks.

Apparently the Harris Walz campaign is opening another office in Duval.  I think there are a couple things that factor in to this, 1. the DNC and the campaign clearly has excess financial means to do this, 2.  The internal polling indicates that Florida is tighter than people think, perhaps not tight enough for a Harris win, but maybe enough to get rid of Rick Scott.  

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It’s probably too close to the election for them to do much and they risk a backlash if they remove it, and on top of that they’ve got a bigass hurricane bearing down on them again, which means they’ll have to beg the feds for help.

I have no doubt the polls are bad for the, hence their attempt at censoring the TV networks.

Down 27 millibars in 2 hours.  Normally, rapid intensification is 24mb in 24hrs. 
Not a matter of IF cat 5, it’s how SOON

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Oh, and also....Florida was already becoming uninsurable.  Within 24 months, it will be functionally entirely uninsurable.  We're going to need a national (subsidized....by everyone else.....you know, SOCIALISM) insurance mechanism to be an "insurer of last resort" for property owners in Florida.

That's right.  Every one of us is going to have to pay part of the bill to insure Florida property owners - all while that state continues to vote GQP because NO SOCIALISM!, all the while gorging on all the socialism we spend on our fellow countrymen.  I fucking hate them.  

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh, and also....Florida was already becoming uninsurable.  Within 24 months, it will be functionally entirely uninsurable.  We're going to need a national (subsidized....by everyone else.....you know, SOCIALISM) insurance mechanism to be an "insurer of last resort" for property owners in Florida.

That's right.  Every one of us is going to have to pay part of the bill to insure Florida property owners - all while that state continues to vote GQP because NO SOCIALISM!, all the while gorging on all the socialism we spend on our fellow countrymen.  I fucking hate them.  

We could always ask Spain if they want to take it back.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh, and also....Florida was already becoming uninsurable.  Within 24 months, it will be functionally entirely uninsurable.  We're going to need a national (subsidized....by everyone else.....you know, SOCIALISM) insurance mechanism to be an "insurer of last resort" for property owners in Florida.

That's right.  Every one of us is going to have to pay part of the bill to insure Florida property owners - all while that state continues to vote GQP because NO SOCIALISM!, all the while gorging on all the socialism we spend on our fellow countrymen.  I fucking hate them.  

When my son graduated Flight School, the GF and I drove from Ft. Rucker down to Tallahassee (she's FSU alum).  We drove passed many small towns...places that weren't affluent at all...places where you could tell it was just a bunch of rednecks scraping by.  I'm thinking that many of those places will be gone forever.  Either they are uninsured or underinsured, and won't be able to get coverage in the future.  One good storm, the town is blown away, and will never be rebuilt because nobody's willing to invest there. 

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6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

fuck desantis and this other cunt too …

 

I too would like to pound her Congressional seat

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2018 was such an inflection point in Florida politics.

My first political donations were to the Andrew Gillum in 2018 Florida governor race. That same year, we also donated to the FL prop 4 ballot initiative which would've reinstated the franchise to 1.4 million people with a prior felony conviction. That's more than 10% of registered voters in the state.

Gillum lost to Desantis by ~ 0.4% (35k votes). Prop 4 easily won (needed 60%, got 64%). Desentis instituted penalties and red tape that put franchise restitution out of reach for most people who could benefit from it.

Florida is a purple-to-blue state that's been pulled to the GOP by voting restrictions.

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Not DeSantis related but this feels like a good place to post as it’s hurricane related. Basically in the recent past the NC GOP (and a few willing Dems) lowered NC building codes at the behest of home builders.

https://www.wbtv.com/2024/10/05/north-carolina-lawmakers-erode-building-code-years-before-helene-hit/

and it’s not just having more unsafe homes, NC estimates that they lost out on $70m in FEMA grants this year to help small towns reduce disaster risks. And unknowns in higher insurance premiums because insurers are aware of the impact of lower building codes.

but hey, home developers can increase their profits. Insurers probably as well.

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