So what’s new in DuhSantistan?

The C-TAL are at it again!

 

Trump Brought Nazis Into the GOP. DeSantis Won’t Expel Them.

. . . . But to conceive of this episode as a mere failure to properly vet the Mar-a-Lago guest list, or even more broadly as an indictment of Trump’s leadership of the party, misapprehends its scope. The issue is that Trump has expanded the Republican coalition to the right, activating and encompassing undisguised white supremacists, who, through their entry into the two-party system, have gained newfound influence. This is a dangerous and historically significant change to the American political scene. And hardly anybody in the GOP — certainly not Ron DeSantis — intends to reverse it.

. . . . But far from restoring the party’s pre-Trump identity, DeSantis would reify its Trump-era transformation. One way he would do this would be to carry forward Trump’s goal of turning the state into an Orbanist weapon to entrench Republican rule. But the other is to preserve the new coalition Trump created.

DeSantis is quite deliberate about this. He has reached out to QAnon supporters and insurrectionists and suggested January 6 was a setup by the FBI. He has denounced Liz Cheney for participating in the January 6 hearings but refused to denounce a gang of Nazis who showed up in Orlando and menaced local Jews. This is a clear signal of whom DeSantis sees as inside the coalition (white supremacists) and who is out (pro-democracy Republicans like Cheney.)

 

Florida, DeSantis dump BlackRock over 'woke' ESG investing policies

. . . . In August, DeSantis, widely expected to challenge former president Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, pushed through a resolution calling for Florida to stop considering “the ideological agenda” of the ESG movement when investing state funds.

“I need partners within the financial services industry who are as committed to the bottom line as we are – and I don’t trust BlackRock’s ability to deliver,” Patronis, who oversees the Florida Department of Financial Services that manages about $60 billion in taxpayer money, said in a statement.

 

Like I said, he abuses the authority of the office to make political statements. First Disney and now Blackrock. I suspect that Blackrock doesn't have a short memory and they have quite the rolodex.

 

The Blackrock divestment is “immediate”. Being against racism is intolerable. Meanwhile, slow approach over divestment from Russia. This was the last I found with a search. Russia is ideologically aligned

Don't rush to divest Florida's pension plan of its Russian shares

 

The state treasury will freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and remove BlackRock as the manager of about $600 million worth of short-term overnight investments with the goal of giving that business to other money managers by the beginning of 2023, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said in a statement Thursday.

Anybody want to bet that these "other money managers" who are picking up the $600M short term investments are friends of DeSantis?

 

Just think of how many immigrant flights he could fund with all those savings...smdh.. locked up for less than an ounce of weed..

 

But, I thought fla was the land of freedom.

 

Disney punishment...headed towards reversal
Don't teach Woke...struck down by a federal judge as a 1A violation
Immigrant trafficking flights...under federal investigation

Ronnie is all hat, no cattle.

 

Photographer posted this from Jacksonville today

 

DelusionalLand more like. LOL.

 

Such overwhelming freedom that the DeSantis administration, after being repeatedly smacked down by courts for violating the First Amendment, again has decided to try and attack Floridians' First Amendment rights.
Florida Gov. DeSantis wants to limit protests at State Capitol

 

This has to be illegal. FOIA documents will likely require legal action to secure

Records show more Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights. Where did $3.4 million go?
As Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration continues to withhold details about the program, documents show two additional payments have been made to the vendor, bringing the total spent on the yet-to-be disclosed activity to $3.4 million. Two new purchase orders, each for $950,000, were made for payments to Vertol Systems Company on Oct. 11 and Oct 17, according to the state website that tracks contract payments. Two previous payments were made for $615,000 and $950,000 — on Sept. 8 and Sept. 21 — but the governor’s office has accounted for only a fraction of those payments
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Repeated questions from the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times about the purchase orders have been greeted with silence from both the Florida Department of Transportation and the governor’s office. Despite months of public records requests, and two pending lawsuits from the Florida Center for Government Accountability, the state has produced only one record detailing how the millions paid to Vertol were spent.

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For years, the man the governor hired to handle the migrant relocation program, Larry Keefe, represented Vertol Company Systems as its chief litigator when he was still in private practice in his Destin law firm. After he served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Keefe was hired by DeSantis to be his “public safety czar.”
The two newest purchase orders appear to show that the state has paid Vertol for organizing flights that have yet to happen.

 

This is interesting. At the Andrew Warren trial, DeSantis's General Counsel had to define what "woke" means generally. Here was his answer:
In Andrew Warren suspension trial, Gov. DeSantis officials answer: What does ‘woke’ mean?
Asked what “woke” means more generally, Newman said “it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”
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That's what DeSantis is railing about when he's ranting about the "wokeness" and that's what DeSantis was targeting with his "Stop W.O.K.E. Act." Despicable.

 

At least they are being honest and open about it?