So what’s new in DuhSantistan?

Because there are ways to free people after being wrongfully convicted when there is new evidence or testimony. If new evidence emerges 15 years after someone's conviction, isn't it worse that we already killed them?

 

Have to wonder if this may have been a factor?
Ron DeSantis Chartered Planes From GOP-Allied Donor to Fly Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

 

head of the department that wrote the RFQ gave the company, his former employer, language to insert into his qualifications submittal, from a private email. FDOT deemed both bids incomplete, which 99% of the time results in a bidder beign considered non-responsive = new bid, but contract was awarded to former employer anyway. I don't think I have ever seen a clearer cut case of corruption

FDOT, contractor face lawsuit over Gov. Ron DeSantis' migrant flight stunt | Florida News | Orlando | Orlando Weekly

DeSantis’ safety czar used private email, code name ‘Clarice Starling’ to plan migrant flights | WFLA
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Amid ongoing legal battles over September’s migrant flights from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, paid for by Florida tax dollars, the Office of Open Government reported Larry Keefe, the public safety czar, had used a private email with a codename while planning parts of the flights.

Using a private email, Keefe and Montgomerie discussed different aspects of the planned flights from Texas. Keefe told OOG that it was an account he sometimes used during his days of private law practice
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Communications from Keefe to Montgomerie using the “Heat19” email show he communicated with Montgomerie’s own private email, rather than one for the Vertol company he owned.

Their correspondence contained discussion of invoice drafts for the flights, as well as the proposal by Vertol to the Florida Department of Transportation to bid on the relocation program. The emails show Keefe sending Montgomerie draft language for the program submission, detailing the pitch.


DeSantis ‘Czar’ Used Alias, Private Email As Contractor Sought Migrant Flights’ Deal – NBC 6 South Florida (nbcmiami.com)

As his former client was seeking the contract to relocate migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “public safety czar” gave Vertol Systems Company CEO James Montgomerie a private “email channel to use,” according to records released Thursday by the governor’s office.

For three weeks after that Aug. 26 instruction, records show the two men exchanged invoice and proposal language as Vertol was about to win a contract that has so far paid it more than $1.5 million. None of that official state business was included in any of Larry Keefe’s state email records released so far.
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But an attachment to the previously undisclosed email shows that -- 45 minutes before Montgomerie’s “draft sent” text -- Montgomerie sent Keefe a draft of what would become Vertol’s proposal to FDOT to run the relocation program.

That draft contained eight paragraphs that were nearly identical to language Keefe had sent Montgomerie from the Gmail account two days earlier – language that also wound up in the proposal Vertol sent to FDOT on Sept. 2.

 

Seems to be text book corruption. Nothing will happen to the corrupt.

 

DeSantis to defund diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at Florida universities - The Independent Florida Alligator

 

the fact that is so well documented gives me hope though

 

from the article, professors are now subject to direct review by the university trustees in addition to the president..this can't be good for faculty recruitment

University trustees and the president may call for a post-tenure review of a faculty member at any given time, he added.

 

Yep, the 1930s right before our eyes and we refuse to see it.

 

Shocker. I totally didn't see this coming when he requested the funding information. DeRacist strikes again. I'm also laughing that he got some right-wing UF student to whine about how it's unfair that her classmates think she's a racist at the press conference for defunding DEI. Way to show them you're not a racist, Young Karen.

Something tells me that Florida universities are going to see an uptick in First Amendment retaliation cases in the coming years.

 

The higher ed community is viewing these developments with a magnifying glass. Every issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed has one or more articles on DeSantis and the developments in FL.

 

If it becomes a legal issue, and it should, some low-level functionary who was told to approve the contract will have problems

 

Who or why does anyone support the death penalty? There is no value to the act unless you are a big mouth sheriff or politician needing a shock value tool to provide the facade of "being tough on crime".
The court system has been wrong so many times and will continue to error so we must, at the very least, allow the system to not be fashioned after very ignorant knee jerk people.
Am very sure that if one were in the wrong place at the wrong time that all of this would be real. Being jailed wrongly is not new and villifying the innocent to get a conviction is also not. The death penalty prevents zero crimes and for a nation that claims a high road morally it is an embarrassing legacy.

 

The bigger story is what the megalomaniac is going to do in 2 years if he is swept into office.

 

Agree with your other points. I will say that I do think there could be a deterrent effect if we executed people for lesser crimes like shoplifting. Of course, almost no one supports that, and I just don't think people are deterred when it comes to the most heinous crimes which are often committed in the heat of the moment or by people who are severely mental ill or who are willing to die.

 

Suddenly invitations like this one, which would have seemed innocuous in earlier times, feel like an invitation to danger. Publicly marking yourself as a reader. I suddenly worry about my admittedly liberal checkout list, I clouding a lot of what they would label CRT. Could it be used negatively? Likely not, but feels more possible every day.

 

Ron DeSantis demands congressional probe on OANN, Newsmax being dropped

Gov. Ron DeSantis, who served three terms in the U.S. House, wants a legislative probe on recent decisions by cable carriers to remove One America News Network and Newsmax from their programming lineups.

In Bradenton, DeSantis suggested that the House, currently under Republican control, would be the best venue for that urgent inquiry into potential “intellectual discrimination.”

“I think it does warrant an investigation. I think probably the Congress, in the House, would probably be best to do it. We have helped all these organizations who have been under pressure since I’ve been Governor. … But I really think this is something the Congress needs to look at, and I think they need to ensure that there’s not intellectual discrimination going on when it comes to what people are able to view.”

 

Isn't "intellectual discrimination" against Newsmax and One America a contradiction in terms?

 

so now he wants to mandate that companies pay whatever OANN and Newmax wants in fees? smdh

 

Shhhhh...Desantis may be doing a live Dollar General press conference on his new plan to execute shoplifters as a way to punish the heathens of poverty. No need to add this to his list.

 

Jedd Legum shows the receipts on Manny Diaz (thread)