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Jilly_in_VA

(10,877 posts)
Sat Sep 9, 2023, 11:34 AM Sep 2023

DeSantis' Attack Dog Wants to Lock Up Florida Councilman

Florida state Rep. Randy Fine, who is Gov. Ron DeSantis’ snarliest attack dog in the culture wars, has gone after drag queens, gay school children, and Disney.

Now he’s going after a city council member who had the temerity to look into one of Fine’s allies. In typical bullying fashion, he’s calling for a criminal investigation and ranting about “the most serious abuse of power I have seen in my time in elected office.”

Guess he does not have a mirror.

Fine used his position of power to champion the Stop WOKE Act and its effort to police what colleges can teach about race and gender—legislation so antithetical to academic freedom that a federal judge called it “positively dystopian.”

He used his bully pulpit to imperil funding for an LGBTQ+ group that put on a drag-queen story time during Pride, and he defended a bill banning minors from drag shows by saying, “If it means erasing a community because you have to target children, then damn right we ought to do it.”

And if Fine still does not recognize a power abuser when he sees one, he need only consult a report from the Florida Commission on Ethics in April.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/floridas-randy-fine-wants-to-lock-up-a-councilman-who-crossed-an-ally?ref=home

Dipshit.

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DeSantis' Attack Dog Wants to Lock Up Florida Councilman (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Sep 2023 OP
I thought Desatan was going to publicly cut throats and pwb Sep 2023 #1
They go after easy, visible targets like gays/trans but shy away from real problems like homeowners' keithbvadu2 Sep 2023 #2
K & R for visibility Celerity Sep 2023 #3

pwb

(12,198 posts)
1. I thought Desatan was going to publicly cut throats and
Sat Sep 9, 2023, 12:05 PM
Sep 2023

shoot and kill people at will? Now they just want to lock people up?

keithbvadu2

(40,091 posts)
2. They go after easy, visible targets like gays/trans but shy away from real problems like homeowners'
Sat Sep 9, 2023, 12:46 PM
Sep 2023

They go after easy, visible targets like gays/trans but shy away from real problems like homeowners' insurance.

Florida residents are being hammered by insurance problems and costs.

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