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DeSantis: The Authoritarian
- Thread starter gwb-trading
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Well it is good news that power has been restored to 98% of Floridians who had outages. Is this a good time to point out that DeSantis has nothing to do with the restoration of power. He is merely pushing his political narrative. Maybe DeSantis can tell us what he plans to do when the insurance companies in the state go broke shortly -- a problem he failed to fix prior the hurricane.
DeSantis touts speedy hurricane response, says nearly 98% of power outages have been restored
DeSantis' office said Sunday that 97.79% of power outages have been restored
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de...esponse-says-nearly-98-power-outages-restored
DeSantis touts speedy hurricane response, says nearly 98% of power outages have been restored
DeSantis' office said Sunday that 97.79% of power outages have been restored
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de...esponse-says-nearly-98-power-outages-restored
It is now obvious that using Florida state money to transport immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard is not supported in the program guidelines. When will they hold Ron DeSantis accountable for his actions?
DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard appear outside the scope of Florida transport program guidelines, state documents show
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/us/f...neyard-state-documents-contractors/index.html
DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard appear outside the scope of Florida transport program guidelines, state documents show
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/us/f...neyard-state-documents-contractors/index.html
Guess which state's Surgeon General has issued official health guidance based on junk science. C'mon, guess.
Hint #1: He is a well-known anti-vax Covid Denier.
Hint #2: His state leads the U.S. for many months now in both raw and per-capita Covid deaths. No other state comes close.
Hint #3: His state has had 5X the number of deaths from Covid over the past couple of weeks than from Hurricane Ian.
Twitter thread by a medical professional shows the absurdity of what Lapado is pushing.
Hint #1: He is a well-known anti-vax Covid Denier.
Hint #2: His state leads the U.S. for many months now in both raw and per-capita Covid deaths. No other state comes close.
Hint #3: His state has had 5X the number of deaths from Covid over the past couple of weeks than from Hurricane Ian.
Twitter thread by a medical professional shows the absurdity of what Lapado is pushing.
As Florida's Surgeon General, how badly do your Covid anti-vax claims have to suck to have the right-wing Daily Signal refute the information and mock you?
So Ladapo put forward a pre-print, non-peer reviewed paper with no listed authors which follows no recognized scientific procedure as his "evidence" for his policy to reject Covid vaccinations for men aged 18-39.
What Is The Truth About Florida’s COVID-19 Vaccine Study?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/10/...l-joseph-ladapo-cardiac-heart-related-deaths/
So Ladapo put forward a pre-print, non-peer reviewed paper with no listed authors which follows no recognized scientific procedure as his "evidence" for his policy to reject Covid vaccinations for men aged 18-39.
What Is The Truth About Florida’s COVID-19 Vaccine Study?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/10/...l-joseph-ladapo-cardiac-heart-related-deaths/
This is how authoritarians operate... they don't really care about democracy and voting --- and do everything possible to suppress it.
How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law
https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-desantis-florida-redistricting-map-scheme
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was incensed. Late last year, the state’s Republican legislature had drawn congressional maps that largely kept districts intact, leaving the GOP with only a modest electoral advantage.
DeSantis threw out the legislature’s work and redrew Florida’s congressional districts, making them far more favorable to Republicans. The plan was so aggressive that the Republican-controlled legislature balked and fought DeSantis for months. The governor overruled lawmakers and pushed his map through.
DeSantis' office has publicly stressed that partisan considerations played no role and that partisan operatives were not involved in the new map.
A ProPublica examination of how that map was drawn — and who helped decide its new boundaries — reveals a much different origin story. The new details show that the governor’s office appears to have misled the public and the state legislature and may also have violated Florida law.
DeSantis aides worked behind the scenes with an attorney who serves as the national GOP’s top redistricting lawyer and other consultants tied to the national party apparatus, according to records and interviews.
Florida’s constitution was amended in 2010 to prohibit partisan-driven redistricting, a landmark effort in the growing movement to end gerrymandering as an inescapable feature of American politics.
Barbara Pariente, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who retired in 2019, told ProPublica that DeSantis’ collaboration with people connected to the national GOP would constitute “significant evidence of a violation of the constitutional amendment.”
“If that evidence was offered in a trial, the fact that DeSantis was getting input from someone working with the Republican Party and who’s also working in other states — that would be very powerful,” said Pariente, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Democrat Lawton Chiles.
A meeting invite obtained by ProPublica shows that on Jan. 5, top DeSantis aides had a “Florida Redistricting Kick-off Call” with out-of-state operatives. Those outsiders had also been working with states across the country to help the Republican Party create a favorable election map. In the days after the call, the key GOP law firm working for DeSantis logged dozens of hours on the effort, invoices show. The firm has since billed the state more than $450,000 for its work on redistricting.
A week and a half after the call, DeSantis unveiled his new map. No Florida governor had ever pushed their own district lines before. His plan wiped away half of the state’s Black-dominated congressional districts, dramatically curtailing Black voting power in America’s largest swing state.
One of the districts, held by Democrat Al Lawson, had been created by the Florida Supreme Court just seven years before. Stretching along a swath of north Florida once dominated by tobacco and cotton plantations, it had drawn together Black communities largely populated by the descendants of sharecroppers and slaves. DeSantis shattered it, breaking the district into four pieces. He then tucked each fragment away in a majority-white, heavily Republican district.
(Much more at above url)
How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law
https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-desantis-florida-redistricting-map-scheme
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was incensed. Late last year, the state’s Republican legislature had drawn congressional maps that largely kept districts intact, leaving the GOP with only a modest electoral advantage.
DeSantis threw out the legislature’s work and redrew Florida’s congressional districts, making them far more favorable to Republicans. The plan was so aggressive that the Republican-controlled legislature balked and fought DeSantis for months. The governor overruled lawmakers and pushed his map through.
DeSantis' office has publicly stressed that partisan considerations played no role and that partisan operatives were not involved in the new map.
A ProPublica examination of how that map was drawn — and who helped decide its new boundaries — reveals a much different origin story. The new details show that the governor’s office appears to have misled the public and the state legislature and may also have violated Florida law.
DeSantis aides worked behind the scenes with an attorney who serves as the national GOP’s top redistricting lawyer and other consultants tied to the national party apparatus, according to records and interviews.
Florida’s constitution was amended in 2010 to prohibit partisan-driven redistricting, a landmark effort in the growing movement to end gerrymandering as an inescapable feature of American politics.
Barbara Pariente, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who retired in 2019, told ProPublica that DeSantis’ collaboration with people connected to the national GOP would constitute “significant evidence of a violation of the constitutional amendment.”
“If that evidence was offered in a trial, the fact that DeSantis was getting input from someone working with the Republican Party and who’s also working in other states — that would be very powerful,” said Pariente, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Democrat Lawton Chiles.
A meeting invite obtained by ProPublica shows that on Jan. 5, top DeSantis aides had a “Florida Redistricting Kick-off Call” with out-of-state operatives. Those outsiders had also been working with states across the country to help the Republican Party create a favorable election map. In the days after the call, the key GOP law firm working for DeSantis logged dozens of hours on the effort, invoices show. The firm has since billed the state more than $450,000 for its work on redistricting.
A week and a half after the call, DeSantis unveiled his new map. No Florida governor had ever pushed their own district lines before. His plan wiped away half of the state’s Black-dominated congressional districts, dramatically curtailing Black voting power in America’s largest swing state.
One of the districts, held by Democrat Al Lawson, had been created by the Florida Supreme Court just seven years before. Stretching along a swath of north Florida once dominated by tobacco and cotton plantations, it had drawn together Black communities largely populated by the descendants of sharecroppers and slaves. DeSantis shattered it, breaking the district into four pieces. He then tucked each fragment away in a majority-white, heavily Republican district.
(Much more at above url)
Becoming?
Is Florida Becoming a Failed State?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/florida-hurricane-ian/
Is Florida Becoming a Failed State?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/florida-hurricane-ian/
As Florida's Surgeon General, how badly do your Covid anti-vax claims have to suck to have the right-wing Daily Signal refute the information and mock you?
So Ladapo put forward a pre-print, non-peer reviewed paper with no listed authors which follows no recognized scientific procedure as his "evidence" for his policy to reject Covid vaccinations for men aged 18-39.
What Is The Truth About Florida’s COVID-19 Vaccine Study?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/10/...l-joseph-ladapo-cardiac-heart-related-deaths/
The entire scientific community is dumping on the nonsense pushed by Ladapo. This is the quality of "science" you get from anyone appointed by DeSantis.
Scientists pan analysis Florida's surgeon general posted on COVID-19 vaccines
Experts say his warning of cardiac risk in young men is dangerously misleading.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scien...urgeon-general-posted-covid/story?id=91294952
Long overdue to investigate DeSantis' illegal diversion of taxpayer funds.
The entire scientific community is dumping on the nonsense pushed by Ladapo. This is the quality of "science" you get from anyone appointed by DeSantis.
Scientists pan analysis Florida's surgeon general posted on COVID-19 vaccines
Experts say his warning of cardiac risk in young men is dangerously misleading.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scien...urgeon-general-posted-covid/story?id=91294952
Yep... DeSantis' state surgeon general puts out totally anti-scientific nonsense. Who in their right mind would appoint an anti-vax clown like Ladapo who peddles pseudo science to a state office? Only an authoritarian who does not believe in facts and reality but wants to push his political agenda would have someone like this as a science advisor.
That Florida “analysis” on COVID vaccines is—you guessed it—total garbage
This dumpster fire of an analysis is just what you'd expect from Florida's Ladapo.
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...vid-vaccines-is-you-guessed-it-total-garbage/