Yet another instance of authoritarianism from Ron DeSantis.

[ItsjustMe]

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DeSantis suspends four Broward County School Board members, appoints replacements

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article264956934.html

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday suspended four Broward County School Board members for engaging in what the governor described as “incompetence, neglect of duty, and misuse of authority.”

“It is my duty to suspend people from office when there is clear evidence of incompetence, neglect of duty, misfeasance or malfeasance,” DeSantis said in a press release.

DeSantis said the decision is in response to findings of a statewide grand jury that was tasked with investigating the Broward school district’s response to the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting that left 17 students and staff dead and 17 injured. The grand jury report, completed in April and released last Friday, cited the “incompetent management” of the targeted board members and former Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie over the cost overruns of a $1 billion school-safety program.

[dchill]

1. Authoritarianism in the defense of fascism is no vice!

Something like that.

[delisen]

2. Mango Mussolini Strikes Again! nt

[SharonClark]

3. How does he have the authority to do that?

He should be sued.

[Igel]

4. Two non-DeSantis groups said they were incompetent.

Apparently the governor's allowed to suspend, for incompetence, any "county officer," according to Florida law.

Assuming no egregiously wrong ellipses, "yes."

Note that we're really concerned about the legalities in this instance.

I'd link to sources, but left of center pages just express outrage, and references to statutes don't find a home there because they're obviously improperly biased. I'm also too tired to do the work of taking the not-so-left-of-center sources' text and tracking down the actual non-polarized "this is what a democratic process produced" statutes.