What's happening in DeSantistan 2.0

Florida offers more details on its controversial plan for changes at state parks

Get a load of what day and times the public meetings are for this subject. Tuesday at 3pm. Probably as inconvenient a time for any working public or parents with kids in school.

I can't imagine how much money is being thrown around behind the scenes for this kind of crap.

 

Protest planned to save Anastasia Island State Park

 

Not to mention the ability to absorb property and insurance costs

 

That is why so many people are leaving Florida.

 

Interest in golf has been declining for 15 years. More courses are closing than opening. So the state should spend money and use state park land to ... build golf courses?

 

Another great decision by our fearless leader. “Freedumb.”

DeSantis puts school board ally on state education board after voters reject him

 

That guy keeps losing every election he runs on, yet DeSantis-the man of the free people-keeps rejecting the voters and putting him back. It’s so obvious that DeSantis has zero regard for voters.

 

I would love to see the Desantis lovers on this board defend this decision. You can’t.

 

I like many other stuff caring about golf wants Tiger Woods fell off

 

Golf was definitely in decline, but Covid actually gave a lot of courses a substantial spike in business (to the point there may even be a mini boom in building courses now).

My money would be on this being short lived and we’ll go back to closing courses in a few years. So this seems a pretty stupid idea, esp if it’s using an area designated for preservation. Nevermind that it’s all likely rooted in corruption.

 

Taylor Morrison and Lennar both still building bundled golf communities. Surprises me but it is happening

 

DeSantis can’t stop winning …

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando...enQePxNsQQsF-5pstQ_aem_b5r5nML4nb0n8rTF6Umhug

 

desi backed school board candidates didn't do so well across the state. if the dems would get their chit together, the state could easily be in play

DeSantis-backed school board candidates fall short in Florida | AP News

Of the 23 school board candidates that DeSantis endorsed this cycle, preliminary results show more of them appeared to lose their election races than win them.

Unofficial vote tallies show 11 candidates backed by the governor lost on Tuesday, including some incumbents in conservative-leaning counties. Meanwhile, six of DeSantis’ preferred candidates won their races and six were poised to advance to a November runoff after no one in their contests cleared 50% of the vote. Those runoffs could still go in DeSantis’ favor.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, DeSantis acknowledged that efforts to make school boards more conservative were more successful two years ago, but said progress is still being made.

 

DeSantis and Randy Fine bickering like a married couple filing for divorce. Fine wanted the FSU game in Ireland cancelled because Ireland recognizes Palestine. Along with Spain and Norway, Ireland has been deemed supporters of Muslim terror by Fine.

'Fire them': DeSantis spat with GOP lawmaker Fine catches fire online

 

Its gonna be so awesome when Florida bans the import of Jameson and refuses entry to Conor McGregor

 

Major publishers sue Florida over ‘unconstitutional’ book ban law

A coalition of the nation’s largest book publishers filed a lawsuit Thursday against Florida education officials alleging that a 2023 Florida law that increased scrutiny of school library books unconstitutionally limits free speech.

The lawsuit, which was filed by Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Harper Collins and three other publishers in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Orlando, also named school board members in Orange and Volusia County school districts.

Orange County Public Schools had not been served with the complaint by 2 p.m. Thursday and had no comment, district spokesperson Michael Ollendorff said.

The complaint alleges that hundreds of titles have been banned from Florida school districts since the law went into effect last year. Those titles include “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens and “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank.

 

Republicans: shut up and dribble. Keep politics out of sport.

Also Republicans: we can’t allow a state university to play in a country that recognizes Palestine