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Florida Man Leads His State to the Morgue: Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans
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Adam Weinstein/June 17, 2020
Florida Man Leads His State to the Morgue
Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans who made the state a plutocratic dystopia. Now hes letting its residents die to save the plutocrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158215/florida-coronavirus-cases-ron-desantis-leads-state-morgue
To get a sense of Floridas priorities amid a viral pandemic, economic ruin, and a campaign for black lives, just look to the letter I received from state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis on Monday evening, asking me if I was a paid Chinese Communist agent.
The form letter was addressed to the Florida-based S-corporation I formed in 2009 to handle my freelance writing and editing, and which, as a veteran-owned business, is registered as a state vendor, even though Ive never bid on a public contract and never intend to. The letters aim was to identify state vendors who are owned or controlled by the Communist Party of China. Accordingly, it said, you are hereby requested to respond within 30 days by verifying your status as a company owned and controlled by U.S. Interests, in order to avoid necessary follow up by the state Department of Financial Services.
As a Republican state representative, Patroniswhose family runs a restaurant, winery, real estate, and bottled-water empire, and whose cousin is the long-serving vice president of the state gun lobbywas the Florida chairman of the notorious conservative, Koch-backed American Legislative Exchange Council. He earned fame for championing lobbyist-written bills that denuded Floridas critical ecology and despoiled its environment. After he was term-limited out of the state House in 2014, he joined the state Cabinet as its elected CFO and promptly was accused of hiring lobbyists and moochers and pressuring state officials to stop cooperating with a case against a Miami financial adviser who had donated $25,000 to Patroniss campaign.
On Monday, as Patroniss office was mailing state corporations to try and ferret out Commies in their midst, Florida identified 2,783 new cases of coronavirus among its residents, the states highest single-day total since the global pandemic broke out. It was the third record-high daily case total Florida reported in the past week.....................
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Florida Man Leads His State to the Morgue: Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans (Original Post)
riversedge
Jun 2020
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FM123
(10,053 posts)1. That's our DeSatan.
Why save lives when you can just take them, especially the little people....
2naSalit
(86,536 posts)2. One can only hope...
he ends up being one of them.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. DeSatanis is turning Florida blue.
Unfortunately, many Floridians are turning blue because they can't breathe.
Botany
(70,490 posts)4. " ... there's a possibility up to 55,000 Floridians may die"
Meanwhile in New Zealand they had a total of 22 deaths and now they have
zero cases of C-19. BTW my county in OH, Franklin has > 7,000 cases.
So much of this was totally preventable but Trump had to fire the global
pandemic warning group, the CDC's epidemiologist in Wuhan in Sept 2018,
and disband a multinational organization that was in China and looking for
possible pandemic viruses 9n Sept. 2019.
riversedge
(70,187 posts)5. and Trumps very bad example as head of State of not wearing a mask.