DeSantis makes a mess, and Florida lawmakers use special session to clean up after him
With Gov. DeSantis iron-fisted control of the legislative process in Florida, its not elected officials who must conform to the limits of the law; its the law that gets modified according to the whims of elected officials.
If you pass a half-baked bill in vengeful haste, someone will clean up your mess. When you get sued for allegedly violating your own migrant-relocation program, no worries, your friends in the Legislature will expand that program and give you ample power and cash to make it right. When you tout illegal voting arrests of people who the state allowed to vote, and it turns out you might have chosen the wrong prosecutors to bring those charges, you simply change the law.
Thats the story of the special legislative session that began this week in the Florida Capitol. The urgent matter the Republican-controlled Legislature must address is cleaning up the governors most controversial policies. Lawmakers couldnt even wait another month until their regular two-month session that starts in March.
To be fair, there are other valid issues being discussed: providing relief for Hurricane Ian victims and expanding a law that allows college athletes to sign endorsement deals. But this is no ordinary special session. The bulk of it is about giving DeSantis more and unchecked power.
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)The current law will force some Florida taxpayers to assume a ton of debt.
Ray Bruns
(4,098 posts)cachukis
(2,242 posts)Remember, transience is a powerful influence among many who've moved. They have a Manifest Destiny about them. They left their world for hope in a better place; American (im)migrants, if you will.
They know they can escape here on a spaceship to Mars if things don't work out. The promise of Florida.