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Florida may never recover from then-Gov. Rick Scott’s decision in 2011 to spitefully reject federal funds to connect Tampa and Orlando via high-speed rail
A major Republican travesty in modern Florida history that still hinders transportation to this day
Expansion of high-speed trains would benefit Florida environment | Commentary
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Gov. DeSantis' "Dukakis moment" graces billboard near Governor's Mansion via
@FLExtremeWatch
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Absolutely wild, insulting to any normal person
.
@GovRonDeSantis
has appointed
@TinaDescovich
, one of the founders of
@Moms4Liberty
, to the Florida Commission on Ethics, his office announced Wednesday.
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Florida politics really boils down to a small group of rich people manipulating everyone else
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Corporate monopoly FPL gouging Floridians during the hottest summer ever
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Is it fascism yet?
Overwhelmingly white Florida Republicans re-writing history to remove reference to racial segregation and Jim Crow bigotry
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Huge national story that underpins a major problem — Florida is killing its signature government transparency
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1)
@AnnaForFlorida
consistently outperforms top of the ticket in a swing District
2) any “top Democrat” talking to the FL Standard should be ashamed
3) guarantee whoever said this is responsible for many losses
4) anonymous sources are criminalized under GOP “defamation” bill
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“Exorbitant bike lanes”
A completely unserious government out of touch with reality
DESANTIS DEPOLITICIZES TRANSPORTATION
"Some activists want to make driving so miserable that people have to abandon their cars."
Leftist cities and counties will cut lanes for half-empty buses and exorbitant bike lanes.
"That's not going to happen in FL." -
@GovRonDeSantis
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These Far Right freaks getting paid $160,000 a year by Florida taxpayers ought to outrage every resident of our state
Both
@BryanDGriffin
and
@ChristinaPushaw
have returned to the State of Florida payroll after their presidential campaign assignments.
Griffin gets $160K of our taxpayer money as the "Director of Press Relations."
Pushaw receives $155K as a "Senior Management Analyst II."
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Exactly — Florida highway congestion is a legit circle of hell
Imagine I-4 traffic being alleviated by high speed rail, instead of crammed even more by more sprawl suburbs
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A major untold story is how much Tallahassee developers have recklessly polluted Wakulla Springs.
North Florida has suffered, while GOP state officials have let them off the hook.
Lots of Scott Maddox-era
#TLHpol
corruption linked to the same players
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State cops union celebrating less public oversight for local taxpayers. Shameful
Enemies of transparency and accountability👇🥊
Thank you Speaker Renner and Rep Duggan for fighting for HB 601 which eliminates the ability of civilian review boards to receive and investigate complaints. No more emotions, agendas or politics involved in this process only facts and evidence.
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🚨A major Florida journalism story this morning —
A writer for fake news rags
@theflstandard
and
@TLHReports
has been outed as a right-wing “Christian Nationalist” extremist & Confederate sympathizer who praised the founder of the KKK
#tlhpol
#sayfie
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No reason Americans are not all automatically registered to vote. We’re certainly automatically registered to pay taxes
Michigan is set to become the first state in the nation that would automatically register people to vote as they leave prison
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@AnnaForFlorida
Increasingly common tactic from Republicans. A healthy, rational public policy discourse requires public debates!
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Shame on Florida’s corrupt Public Service Commission and the FPL-funded lawmakers who nominated them.
They have NEVER rejected a rate increase requested by monopoly utilities.
Corporate monopoly FPL gouging Floridians during the hottest summer ever
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Couldn’t happen to a crueler psycho
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Wonder what records requests would discover about the taxpayer cost for outside counsel for Florida to fight its own citizen here?
DeSantis has thrown $700/hr private attorneys at so many of his petty fights, amounting to millions so far.
DeSantis admin, FL Dept of Law Enforcement, and their lawyers including private ones at taxpayer expense agreed to settle my federal lawsuit after a year & a half. They agreed to turn over unredacted surveillance docs about me & give me access to taxpayer funded press materials.
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DeSantis-appointed crony Andrew Bain must — and will — be defeated by Monique Worrell in 2024
This right-wing coup in Central Florida will fail
After only two days in office Andrew Bain said he is planning to run for State Attorney, according to a set-down interview he did with Channel 9.
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Such a great point by Rep.
@AnnaForFlorida
on WMNF —
Giving the New College presidency and general counsel jobs to Republican politicians is a money-driven grift using taxpayer dollars.
It raises serious Sunshine concerns about the obvious back-room dealings involved.
Love when
@AnnaForFlorida
is on the air. The younger generation of leaders in FL are fearless. Tune in at 11am to 88.5fm/wmnf.org
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There’s Always a Florida Connection™️
Wayne Huizenga, the now-deceased billionaire who at one point owned three
#Florida
sports teams, was one of several wealthy businessmen who provided lavish gifts & vacations to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
via
@camellia_elaine
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Great story by
@CallTallahassee
in
@TDOnline
about yesterday’s Wakulla gas station vote — which ended well for conservationists, with the proposal tabled + potential for Florida Forever land fund purchasing the site area!
#TLHpol
#WakullaSprings
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1) DeSantis admin continues to give right-wing fake news sites like
@FLVoiceNews
,
@theflstandard
@TLHReports
exclusive ‘scoops’ as they form a political ecosystem around carrying his water
2) absolutely insane moves jeopardizing students’ educational outcomes and harming Florida
JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis says he and the legislature will look into reevaluating Florida's relationship with the College Board, including standardized testing and colleges accepting AP courses for college credit
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Verrry strange that # of voters has gone DOWN in a growing mega-state
Intentional barriers to voting enacted by right wing legislators and our failed Gov. Ron DeSantis are making our republic less representative
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@Mdixon55
What a sham. Publicly funded grifters selling out the Governor’s Mansion.
DeSantis has been the most corrosive influence on an already highly corroded process.
This is flat-out corruption.
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HB 1 — the Scholarships for Millionaires Act — continues to advance in the most extreme Session in Florida’s modern history.
Florida Republicans are pushing HB1, a handout to millionaires and a $4B corporate giveaway designed to eliminate public schools. One of their lawmakers actually just said, “I am one of the millionaires who is going to get a scholarship under this thing.”
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Any Democrat who votes for this lobbyist-written Republican attack on labor and Florida’s child protections should be persona non grata in their district.
News from this week: More Florida Democrats are getting on board with a bill (SB460) that would allow construction contractors to hire more teenagers, despite warnings voiced by organized labor and construction workers themselves about safety on the job.
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November 30, 2023
The day it came to light that Florida’s Republican Party Chair
@ChrisMZiegler
&
@Moms4Liberty
co-founder Bridget Ziegler have been accused of sexual battery by their alleged threesome partner
Florida GOP has drunk driven this state off a cliff. Time for change
The moral high ground just had a devastating earthquake.
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Blaise Ingoglia and Corey Simon’s offices violated Florida Legislature rules by selling Florida Senate furniture on Facebook Marketplace. Widely known but unreported so far
@fineout
They should resign for violating the public trust.
This you
@AngieNixon
? I don’t seem to remember you be censored or asked to resign over this?
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The enemy of logical mass transit in Florida is exactly who you think it is👇
MAGA boomers who think being stuck on I-4 is freedom
@EvanPower
@rpetty
@Flasqueeze
I was among those with the Hillsborough GOP along with Doug Geoztloe, who torpedoed Orlando to Tampa HSR. The winning argument was FREEDOM. Our cars and roads are FREEDOM & private enterprise. The historic TRANSIT change happening NOW -autonomous vehicles including flying cars.
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Well-done story on
@CarlosGSmith
’s return to the Florida Capitol in
@WESH
👇
Carlos has already has huge momentum — we look forward to his tenure in the Florida Senate!!!
Former Rep. Smith’s campaign will also help spike turnout in Central Florida in 2024
#FlaPol
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Florida Republicans have already badly damaged our state’s public square.
Skipping debates, slow-walking or denying records requests, and no-commenting reporters have become standard practice.
But their new proposal to pin civil legal penalties on truthful speech is just evil.
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Wow — Tampa Mayor
@JaneCastor
endorses right-wing Republican millionaire Blake Casper vs her sitting colleague Councilman Bill Carlson
It was news when former Mayor Buckhorn cynically endorsed Casper, who donated $250k+ to DeSantis and Trump.
This is jaw-dropping
#FlaPol
#Tampa
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Right wing Hialeah politician
@TeamAlexRizo
has made it illegal to film any police within 25 ft in Florida
No legitimate public purpose for this hill. Just pro-police corruption and anti-Floridians’ rights…
Just a BS favor for the Ron DeSantis-endorsing cop unions. Shameful.
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This is a winning message — something Florida Democrats have needed badly for years.
@CarlosGSmith
will be a champion for working people in the Florida Senate who will push back against the divisive redneck extremism of Florida’s GOP
Proud to endorse Carlos in SD 13!
The legislature has taken us in a dangerous direction and turned our classrooms into political battlefields.
I’m fighting back and running for Florida Senate to give our community HOPE that we can still elect people who care about helping people.
Together we win in 2024.
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With City Commissioner
@JackPorterTLH
set to cruise to re-election and Tallahassee’s first Black woman Mayor Dot Inman-Johnson (
@dotfortally
) likely to prevail, the State Capital has an incredible opportunity in 2024:
The first women-led City Hall majority!
#FlaPol
#TLHpol
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More undemocratic, extreme legislation from Florida Republicans.
Attacking local gov authority while mandating subsidies for hugely profitable developers is exactly the opposite of what’s needed to fight Florida’s rising rents and housing costs.
House version of the Senate’s bill that pre-empts rent stabilization programs has been filed.
Read here:
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“The Florida Republicans in the Legislature were complicit as state employees and fans of the Governor called Democrats ‘groomers’ on Twitter.”
Meanwhile, the
@FloridaGOP
Chair was having threesomes. Let’s be real.”
@senpizzo
in committee today
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🚨As predicted by TFS: a chilling new crackdown on free speech in Florida proposed
DeSantis and Florida’s far right using state power to silence critics and journalists.
Long a goal of GOP political operatives involved w/ the FPL “ghost candidate” scandal and RPOF machine ⬇️
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Research: Florida workers among America’s most unhappy
Far right wing, mean-spirited state government doesn’t create flourishing
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@FascismHeckler
@alyjo85
This phenomenon seems to not actually exist beyond a handful of onliners
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Brave Floridians fighting for what’s right in the face of a fascist regime
We salute you,
@FLImmigrant
@Dreamdefenders
@tomaskenn
@DwightBullard
Activists protesting Gov. Ron DeSantis and his policies, who were holding a sit-in at his office, are being arrested.
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Jeb Bush began the Far Right decline of our state government back in 1998.
It’s easy to see him as the hapless “please clap” old codger, but he has gutted Florida.
Racist moves killing affirmative action, starting the school “vouchers scam”… it all started with Jeb
Congrats to
@Daniel_PerezFL
on his selection as the next Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives! I’m confident he’ll build on the legacy of
@Paul_Renner
and others before him to put students and families first.
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Fantastic swearing-in speeches tonight from Democratic Leader
@FentriceForFL
& Leader Pro Tem
@RepDotieJoseph
.
The House Caucus is in good hands under their leadership + Reps.
@AnnaForFlorida
,
@AngieNixon
,
@micheleforfl
— and all the fighters for progress and justice in Florida.
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Kent Stermon was a fixture in Jax and FL Republican circles, personal friend of DeSantis
He was also a child molester who killed himself when those revelations emerged
Don’t hear much about it from “law and order” “protect the kids” conservatives but it’s a huge, major story.
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🚨 Huge
#TLHpol
news 🚨
Tallahassee City Hall and TPD brass caught lying about war criminal Eddie Gallagher’s role in training police
Official narrative unravels as new records surface
Commissioners
@JeremyMatlowTLH
and
@VoteJackPorter
vindicated by revelations
#FlaPol
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Congrats to
@FloridaRewild
, led by
@jeffvandermeer
, on their new Florida land conservation grant!
#FlaPol
#TLHpol
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Ron DeSantis went to Harvard and Yale
Make no mistake, the world is more destabilized because Joe Biden is weak, his administration is weak, they don’t project strength, and it’s loaded with Ivy Leaguers who don’t like our country.
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The humiliating death of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is one of the only good things going right now
.
@RonDeSantis
says he's 5'11" and is not wearing hidden heels in his 'standard off the rack' boots
Reporting by
@AGGancarski
#FlaPol
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Faux anti-corporate warrior Ron DeSantis has has done more to enable utility companies to raise rates and insurance companies, to fleece consumers than all his predecessors combined. That’s quite an accomplishment.
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TFS is proud to endorse
@BillyCorben
for Miami-Dade DEC Chair!
Filmmaker Billy Corben (
@BillyCorben
) says he will run for Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair
by
@KMaxGreenwood
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Interesting point lost in the shuffle:
Will
@BridgetAZiegler
be asked to step down from DeSantis’ post-Disney Central Florida Tourism Board?
@craigtimes
@Paula_Dockery
@FLCTRGA
@craigtimes
But but but but but... Bridget is going to lecture Disney on family values, right?
Has any one asked her fellow DeSantis appointed
#CFTOD
members for comment?
Martin Garcia (chair)
Bridget Ziegler
Michael Sasso
Brian Aungst, Jr.
Ron Peri
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Another anti-democratic power grab from Florida Republicans.
They know when special interests can’t control policy debates, the people win gains for their interests.
Democrats, progressives, NPAs and reform-minded Republicans need to stand against this extreme proposal.
#FlaPol
So it begins. Bill to increase the threshold of amendments to the State Constitution from 60 percent to 66.67 percent has been filed.
If approved by the legislature and voters, it'll make the process of passing ballot amendments in FL much harder.
Link:
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Florida GOPers were the core of the January 6 insurrection.
The Republican Party of Florida just elected
@ChrisMZiegler
as Chair. Ziegler is an insurrectionist who recorded himself at the January 6th riots. Florida Republicans are doubling down on the lunacy.
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Our
@kkfla737
had a thing or two to say about Senator Brodeur’s anti-blogging bill over
@thedailybeast
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AIF is the sworn enemy of all working people in Florida.
Founded to stop New Deal progress, funded fully by the worst of the worst polluters and right-wing malefactors in Tallahassee.
At the 2023 AIF Annual Conference, Pres. & CEO
@BrewsterBevis
announced the launch of The Center for Political Strategy, a collaborative, comprehensive, political effort for the business community with the goal of ensuring pro-business candidates are elected to the Legislature.
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The worst of the worst:
-big real estate developers ✅
- the “Southern Group” corruption machine ✅
- monopoly FPL (ghost candidate election fraudsters) ✅
- Big Sugar ✅
- Crooked right-wing PBA Cops “union” ✅
The villains damaging Florida.
At the
@FloridaGOP
Statesman’s Donner where press have been told they can’t go in and out of the room, even to use the bathroom.
I kid you not, dear reader, we have to ask a Floroda GOP staffer to escort us to the bathroom
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Shame on
@LindaStewartFL
for voting Yes on right wing thinktank monstrosity SB 1530, the heartless Ron DeSantis-endorsed bill criminalizing poverty and crushing public rights
Orange County Democrats will remember when she runs for County Commission in 2024 🗳️
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HUGE endorsements for
@CarlosGSmith
’s Florida Senate campaign ⬇️
Carlos is helping everyday working people build power in Central Florida.
TFS is proud to endorse him in SD-17!
#FlaPol
#sayfie
Proud to have earned the endorsement of Congressman
@MaxwellFrostFL
and Rep.
@AnnaForFlorida
in my campaign for Florida Senate!
RETWEET with your own comment and endorsement to help continue our early momentum in this race!
#PeopleOverPolitics
#TeamCarlos
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Absolutely outrageous the Florida Senate would discourage anyone from requesting Public Records they are entitled to under Florida law
We are too, but can you two please take it easy on the post-session public records requests? Asking for a friend. 🤔
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As usual, Rep.
@AnnaForFlorida
bringing a serious, thoughtful approach to her legislative work.
Unlike the shallow GOP hacks doing bizarre right-wing performance art with their majority.
Floridians suffer as state gov is used as a prop to get DeSantis past Trump in Iowa
#FlaPol
Wow we literally just had a subcommittee meeting in the FL House focused on freight transit and I asked questions about what public notice (if any) is available when it comes to transporting hazardous materials through a city/county.
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Between DeSantis giving YOUR tax dollars to right-wing grifters to run state institutions and this — today’s GOP politics is con artists scamming each other.
George Santos would blush
Since leaving office, Donald Trump has funneled nearly $1 million worth of donor money to his own properties.
He continues to dupe his supporters into forking over money to line his own pockets.
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More dangerous, extreme right-wing GOP destruction of environmental protections.
Florida Republicans seem committed to destroying everything good about our state — and remaking it in their corporate-dominated lily white image.
A Florida Republican lawmaker just filed an unhinged preemption bill that would ban local governments from adopting “laws, regulations, rules, or policies” having to do with water quality or quantity, pollution control, and wetlands. If you don’t believe me, check it out 👇
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Ron DeSantis’ administration has been terrible for Black Floridians, specifically targeting them politically for cynical personal gain
The man wants to restore the name of a Confederate general on an American military base.
He has 1000% stoked right-wing racial animus
@AGGancarski
@GovRonDeSantis
@MayorDeegan
@MillennialPrez1
How about returning the Congressional district he stole from Black people in N Florida? Undoing voter suppression laws?Teaching the truth about our history? Restoring critical DEI efforts? Repealing permitless carry? Ending his Godless culture war?
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Open-ended grift with costs in the unknown billions.
This will dilute/defund your alma mater, launch thousands of shady unaccountable schools, and subsidize millionaires sending their kids to private school.
Florida Republicans’ education policy in 2023
Florida lawmakers pass universal school vouchers, despite critics saying it will cost $4 billion
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🚨NEW: Bombshell story in today’s
@TDOnline
🚨
Officer drug use covered up by Tallahassee Police Chief, City Manager
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Free Tim Burke. He did nothing wrong, simply accessed a publicly available URL
Damn.
"Tampa media consultant Tim Burke was charged Thursday with 14 federal crimes related to alleged computer hacks at Fox News.
Federal law enforcement officials arrested Burke, 45, on Thursday morning. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Tampa this afternoon."
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This Elections Bill is not just cynical, rascally, partisan or whatever
It’s corrupt. This is corruption.
The State Legislature is making Florida more corrupt and less accountable, breaking with decades of bipartisan consensus on transparency
The Florida Senate has proposed a bill that would allow politicians (including Gov. Ron DeSantis and members of the Legislature) to disclose their campaign donors LESS frequently.
The bill would require campaign-finance reports to be filed quarterly instead of monthly.
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Harassment and official abuse of the press is a hallmark of the post-democracy, fascist New Right
Meanwhile, the apparatchiks feed “scoops” (i.e. propaganda) to fake pay-to-play outlets who clap for DeSantis like seals at the circus
Being a d*ck to a reporter advances absolutely zero conservative policies & does nothing for the people of Florida. They could always just say, “Thanks, no comment,” but the trolling is a higher priority than actual good governance. Pathetic and embarrassing.
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TFS proudly endorses State Rep.
@AngieNixon
over her establishment challenger
She’s been a strong force on the right side of history within Florida’s extremist Legislature.
We admire her moral clarity standing up against racist Florida GOP redistricting, and support her in 24!
Redistricting contrast:
In Tally,
@AngieNixon
staged a sit-in protest of the governor's congressional map that a court found violated Black voters' rights.
In City Council,
@Priestjax
was primarily responsible for a map that another court found violated Black voters' rights.
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Schools in Florida banned more books than any other state | Miami Herald
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Florida and Australia have similar populations (OZ slightly larger). Florida has suffered 42 times as many Covid deaths as Australia.
Governor Ron DeSantis slams Australia over Covid19: "dramatically off the rails"
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Fascism pretends to be democratic right until it seizes enough power to execute its far-right agenda.
Then it bares its fangs for what it is and displays its contempt for democracy.
Not to beat this drum again, but claims that public comment was skewed toward supporters of the ban are true, based on the board's own records. They've never had to face this much opposition before because they didn't give those folks a platform.
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Obvious back room deal.
Also — a $699,000 state salary!
Right-wing kleptocracy under way here. Florida taxpayer money heisted by extreme zealots in broad daylight
#FlaPol
At
@NewCollegeofFL
, student trustee Grace Keenan presses the Sunshine issues again. She seems to be alluding to our report at
@Fla_Pol
that
@RichardCorcoran
's lobbying firm announced his hire before trustees met.
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Under Republican rule, SAT scores are declining, water quality is worsening, housing has become unaffordable for millions, insurances markers are out of control and backwater social values have been foisted on a once-cosmopolitan state
@EvanPower
@JasonFischerFL
@FloridaGOP
Looking forward to the big celebration when Republicans outnumber Dems by 1M!
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Antisemitic and xenophobic, plain and simple
🚨A major Florida journalism story this morning —
A writer for fake news rags
@theflstandard
and
@TLHReports
has been outed as a right-wing “Christian Nationalist” extremist & Confederate sympathizer who praised the founder of the KKK
#tlhpol
#sayfie
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The Koch Brothers are going all-in on Ron DeSantis.
The governor is auditioning for them to be the same kind of far-right corporate despot on the national stage — showing them he would privatize Social Security and essential public functions the same way he’s doing in Florida.
The donor network created by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch is preparing to get involved in the presidential primaries in 2024, with the aim of turning “the page on the past” — a thinly veiled rebuke of Donald Trump.
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More right-wing Republican politicians grifting via Florida’s public colleges and universities — feathering their nests with your tax dollars.
DeSantis also using state assets to secure 2024 primary support from extreme MAGA loons like Stargel
#FlaPol
Former state Sen. Kelli Stargel of Lakeland has been hired by
@FLPolyU
as senior advisor for strategic relationships.
Story to come
@theledger
.
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Right-wing Florida GOP is all about reducing public input.
Hiding in back rooms, limiting debate and operating by force is their way.
Florida deserves so much better.
Yet another move to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments in Florida via
@FLPhoenixNews
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@srl
A huge part of Florida Republicans’ strategy is voter suppression.
Everyone involved with these efforts shares a tradition with Bull Connor and George Wallace
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Republican Mayors like
@FrancisSuarez
+ developer $$$ = a classic Florida corruption combo
Just saw Miami Mayor aka Ponzi Postalita Francis Suarez outside the Trump arraignment and asked why he is here and not addressing the FBI investigation on the bribes he took to advance developer projects. Miami Police pushed me against a wall despite me being peaceful.
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Grow Tallahassee: An Extreme Right-Wing Takeover Looms in Florida’s Capital
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Florida has a unique landscape with sensitive ecosystems and varied local needs
Ron DeSantis, at the behest of his rich developer friends, are running roughshod over everything special about our beautiful state
Column: As
@GovRonDeSantis
OKs a shutdown of citizen-driven growth referendums, I imagine how this will be a turning point for
#Florida
. My latest for the
@FLPhoenixNews
also features shout-outs to Darth Vader, Yosemite Sam and the alien in "Alien."
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GOP Florida recount rules since 2000: play dirty and without mercy in building an autocracy via
@Fl_Political_Sq
by
@kkfla737
#FlaPol
#Sayfie
#FloridaRecount
#FloridaRecount2018
#FloridaElection
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Constant GOP “groomer” accusations at all gay people obscure — intentionally — Florida Republicans’ very real issues with elected GOP pedophiles
The Greenberg/Gaetz, Chris Dorworth, Kent Stermon issues are actual powerful immoral Republicans behaving sickeningly
EXPLOSIVE new allegations about former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg were just made in court during the bribery trial of his former consultant Michael Shirley. A 🧵… 1/
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Police corruption in Florida is out of control
"Disbanded Starke Police Department missing thousands of evidence items, including drugs, money, guns."
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It’s not enough for Sen. Corey Simon (
@csime90
)’s office to steal Florida Senate furniture and sell it on Facebook Marketplace (true story!)…
Now he wants to drive down workers’ wages and put minors in dangerous working conditions!
DeSantis crony has no shame 😑
NEW: Records obtained by
@OrlandoWeekly
show lobbyists for major industry groups wrote legislation, filed by a Florida state senator, that'd allow older teens to work jobs in roofing & construction, currently deemed too dangerous for youth.
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Important reporting here by
@cityandstatefl
DeSantis’ circle is replete with far right wing extremists whose views have no place in American government
@njhochman
, the former DeSantis staffer fired for retweeting a fan cam of Florida's Governor with Nazi imagery, had praised a fascist leader, cited fascist thinkers and questioned the difference between fascism and conservatism before ever working for the campaign.
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Florida Republicans are 100% pursuing a hateful anti-gay crusade — the most cynical, disgusting form of “politics”
Shame on every single GOP pol using or not speaking out against these destructive far-right tactics
“When you come after our kids, we fight back…there’s nothing we won’t do to protect our children. They’re not yours,” -Casey DeSantis, 2023
“Save our children! Homosexuals don't reproduce! They recruit! And they are out after my children and your children." -Anita Bryant, 1977
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Before this, GOP
@RepMcClure
was best known for making strawberry shortcake the State Dessert
Now he’s famous for taking $25k from corporate waterway polluter
@MosaicCompany
— after shepherding their bill to allow radioactive material in Florida’s roads
#FlaPol
🍓🍰☢️
NEW: Records show Tampa fertilizer giant Mosaic paid nearly $25K for a fundraising event for the lawmaker who sponsored the “radioactive roads” bill recently approved by the Florida legislature
Mosaic lobbied for Rep. McClure's bill
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@TB_Times
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Police unions are a major source of government corruption in Florida
Never a credible voice!
Updated story with background on Worrell's public back-and-forths with DeSantis and local law enforcement: via
@orlandosentinel
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Absolutely atrocious, anti-democratic bill to dull Floridians’ voices as right-wing lunatics continue to assault our rights in the state government!
Happening now in Ethics, elections, and open government subcommittee is HRJ 335. This would raise the threshold to for a constitutional amendment from 60% to 66%.
Tune in to the Florida channel now.
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