This is what we are dealing with in Florida...

[Sancho]

People whose life and business are hurt by DeSatan still support and vote for the little Hitler!!! The disconnect is unreal, but that's what I see all over Florida (except with young people who are pissed about abortion and housing and guns). Amazing!

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https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/08/13/floridas-labor-shortage-hits-home-tampa-bay-come-arrest-me/

Florida’s labor shortage gets real in Tampa Bay. ‘Come and arrest me.’

When federal immigration authorities arrived at his Sand Key restaurant in Clearwater to find outdated and noncompliant work documents for 19 of his employees, he was forced to fire them all — including seven people who had worked with his family for decades.

“With 2,000 employees, it becomes very difficult to monitor it,’’ Gonzmart said in an interview. “We think they’re legal but, when we had to check, we found seven people who have been with me 30 years — paying taxes, had children, grandchildren — and we were required to terminate them.”

“I’m very proud of Gov. DeSantis and everything he’s done. I really am,’’ said Gonzmart, a lifelong Republican. “It gave everybody confidence and that’s why so many people are moving here… But my concern is the governor putting in a law that says those who have an expired driver’s license cannot renew it because they’re no longer legal. They cannot work. Their papers are no longer legal.”

While much of the focus on Florida’s new immigration law has been on its impact on agriculture and construction companies, the state’s pivotal restaurant and lodging industry has drawn less attention, but the repercussions have been profound.

[Initech]

1. Rules for you, but not for me.

[Think. Again.]

2. Every sadist needs....

...a state full of masochists, I guess.

[Think. Again.]

3. and I love the fact that....

...so many more of these types of people are continually moving TO Florida!

About to be sucked into the sea after being ravished by hurricanes, and not an insurance company in the world will touch them.

Losers.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Still loves DeSantis and now out of business?

[MOMFUDSKI]

6. Gonzmart

is notsmart

[YDogg]

8. The Columbia is not out of business.

[keithbvadu2]

17. OOPS! Misread it. His cheap sympathy still loves D.

[mucifer]

5. I'm positive they will blame President Biden on

ANYTHING bad Dr satan has done and give credit to de satan for the positive things President Biden has done

[YDogg]

7. The Columbia Restaurant is a Tampa-area institution.

I find it perplexing and disappointing that the owner continues to sing the praises of the governor given the impact of his policies on immigrant communities.

According to the article, the Columbia has 2,000 employees; quite the enterprise. I don’t believe they didn't know the status of that many long-time employees, as this isn't a simple mom and pop place.

I've lost track; are Florida's immigration policies part of woke dying, or just general hatred?

[Sancho]

11. Just about every business I know is well aware of undocumented workers!

...I'm an educator, and about a third of my students were born out of the US. The vast majority did not come here legally. Everyone hires people without regard to checking their status.

I have no idea why they still support the republicans.

[Glorfindel]

9. Wow...a restaurant with 2,000 employees?

That must be a REALLY big place!

[Sancho]

10. There are multiple Columbia restaurants in the area...

[liberal N proud]

12. I just don't get it!

People keep voting against their own best interest. What do these fascist have that keeps the uneducated voting for them?

[Sky Jewels]

14. For one thing, the power of four decades of non-stop right wing propaganda

warping generations of minds.

[YDogg]

21. Access to power, or at least ...

... the illusion of access. A sense of belonging among others who gladly shit on "the other."

[Baitball Blogger]

13. We will probably outvote these nutshell brained idiots, but they'll

figure out another way to stick it to us.

[Roland99]

15. Sorry asshat. You support DeFascist. You don't get to pick and choose his policies

[marble falls]

16. Why is restaurateur Gozmart supporting a governor that is hurting his business?????? ...

... where is his sympathy and outrage over losing valued employees of decades experience????

[moonshinegnomie]

18. i wonder how he'll feel once his restaurant goes under

[mitch96]

19. "blame President Biden" and claim it "woke" and we all know deSatan deems anything "woke"

that he does not like. Uff da vat a putz..
m

[CaptainTruth]

20. DeSantis has been very anti-business in a lot of his actions.

Now I see so many people saying they won't visit Florida due to DeFascist & the GOP, it has to be hurting the restaurant business. Yet the idiots will vote for more of it.

[Takket]

22. "we found seven people who have been with me 30 years -- paying taxes, had children, grandchildren

and we were required to terminate them.”

I feel safer already

[Sancho]

23. Work for someone for 30 years and they fire you and voted for the idiot who is abusing you...

...there has to be something that gets these people to wise up. Immigration reform is real, and the GOP fights it because they know that they would lose Florida if the undocumented were documented.

[Chi67]

24. So

He didn’t think they’d come for him too? And he still likes DeSantis? WTF?

[William769]

25. It's a cult, there is no rhyme or reason.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. For this thread

[AKwannabe]

27. Leopard face

OMG!
That is KILLER!

[Sancho]

28. Love it!

Leopards who eat faces party!

[Cha]

29. So Sorry, Sancho! Maybe just

Maybe it hasn't gotten bad Enough for the deSadist zombiebots Yet!

[Sancho]

30. Florida has gone to hell, but we are fighting back...

...immigrants deserve better.

[Cha]

31. Yes, they Do! And, I have Family

in St Pete & Gainesville.. All Dems!