So what’s new in DuhSantistan?

When Florida needs disaster relief cash due to Ian, Biden should subtract the cost of Ronnie's Vineyard stunt from the total.

 

Does anyone know if DeSantis is your standard militaristic neocon ? Has he made any statements on Ukraine ?

 

The DeSantis position on disaster aid is pretty much a standard of the Republican playbook. Governor Ron wasn't the first and probably won't be the last Republican politician who opposed aid following Hurricane Sandy to states in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast with Democratic governors and then came begging for aid from the same Federal government when their states experienced disasters. Some other examples:
Oklahoma senators embrace disaster aid after opposing Sandy relief bill
Amid Harvey havoc, northeastern politicos sourly recall Texas "no" votes on Sandy aid
Texas Republicans hit by Hurricane Harvey voted against Sandy aid for N.J.

Correction: New Jersey actually had a Republican governor (Chris Christie) although I guess even that didn't matter since the majority of its Congressional delegation was Democrat and that to punish the Democratic governors of New York and Connecticut the Republican in Congress also had to punish NJ, too.

 

If you're in Florida, that could certainly come back to bite you in the ass.

 

Funny you should post this because Floridians pay income tax to the federal government, I think disaster aid is probably coming from those taxes......What I don't understand is why everybody was jumping all over Trump when aid was slow getting to Puerto Rico who pays no income tax.

 

Floridians pay income taxes to the federal government as did residents of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut back in 2012 and 2013 yet Republicans from Florida, Texas and Oklahoma felt that residents of those state should somehow be treated differently than residents of their own states regarding federal aid following a natural disaster.

 

I have questions I don’t know the answer to.

What did the people who voted against it say was the reason? Was it a straight up relief package?

Lots of proposals get turned down due to attached items that have nothing to do with the issue.

If something is important enough it should stand alone.

 

The Republican rationale at the time was that they wouldn't support the disaster supplemental unless there were corresponding cuts elsewhere in the budget to offset the additional spending for disaster relief. Obviously hypocritical since they didn't apply the same standard when their own states needed disaster relief. It was obviously a political stunt considering that the condition was never applied to federal disaster relief either prior or subsequent to that one request for additional disaster spending for Hurricane Sandy. Apparently it didn't matter to the Republicans in Congress that one of the affected states specifically New Jersey actually had a Republican governor although it had a Democrat majority congressional delegation

 

Well, DeSantis could always identify as Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Money would be rolling in...

 

I'm sure money and even troops would be rolling in if Vladimir Putin decided to attack Florida or maybe even if Nicolás Maduro decided to do so. Maybe DeSantis thought that the Venezuelans in Texas were only masquerading as refugees but were really an advance party sent by Maduro to attack Florida so he shipped them to Massachusetts where they would be further away.

 

According to the closed captions today on ABC, the governor of Florida is Rhonda Santos.

 

If DeSantis hadn’t removed lockdown and mask and vaccine mandates this hurricane would never have happened.

 

And there would be more people still alive after it did happen.

 

If that’s the case and there wasn’t any pork then they should have approved it.


Thank you for the clarity.

 

Just one bit of fallout from the partisan political intrusions in FL higher ed. Failed searches happen quite often, but it appears the candidate pools are shrinking. Hmm . . . I wonder why

2 College-Leadership Searches in Florida Struggle to Field Candidates

“It would be naïve to not consider that high-profile state political climates are a major factor in possible candidates’ shying away from applying,” said Felecia Commodore, an associate professor of educational foundations and leadership at Old Dominion University. “Florida has had a lot of press lately regarding what some would call a heavy-handed approach to governance from the state executive branch in relation to its public institutions,” Commodore said. A Chronicle analysis this year called it the “red-state disadvantage.”

Among the issues Florida’s public colleges have faced under DeSantis are new laws that require them to: survey the campus on issues of “intellectual freedom”; restrict instruction on issues of race, racism, and gender; enshrine a stricter post-tenure review system; force faculty members to post their entire syllabi online before the start of each semester; and change accreditors within the next decade.

 

The Californication of Florida ...

https://www.bizjournals.com/jackson...KbU060E5uT3wseaUn4vXiNH6YnuspB5CbJTFtivqJNMdI

 

1st four paragaphs:
The number of California residents moving to Florida accelerated last year and surged to a new monthly high in August of this year, as measured by data tied to Florida driver's licenses.

The number of former Californians exchanging their driver's licenses for Florida ones offers immediate insight into migration patterns that won’t be picked up by Census data for some time. The figures also show the most popular destinations in Florida for former Californians swapping their licenses, since Florida tracks the data by county.

In August, 3,059 former Californians swapped their driver's licenses for ones issued by Florida — the first time ever that the monthly figure exceeded 3,000, according to data from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

That occurred against a backdrop of accelerating migration from the Golden State to the Sunshine State. In the first eight months of this year, 20,319 former Californians made the swap for a Florida license. In 2021, there were 27,081 swaps made for Florida licenses, up sharply from 2020’s figure of 17,504 licenses and the highest annual level reported in data from the state of Florida that goes back to 2016.