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Zorro

(16,284 posts)
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 10:27 AM Jun 2024

In historic first, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoes most arts funding in Florida

Florida arts and culture organizations, still struggling to recover after the COVID pandemic, took another unexpected financial hit when Gov. Ron DeSantis eliminated most state funding for cultural programs.

DeSantis vetoed nearly $1 billion from the $116.5 billion state budget before signing it in Tampa on Wednesday, including nearly $90 million the legislature earmarked for 669 different arts and culture projects and for special line item programs.

It is the first time that no money will be allocated for arts and culture programs by the state.

“It is devastating. Unfortunate is too light a word,” said Richard Russell, general director of the Sarasota Opera, which stands to lose about $70,000 that was expected from the state grant program. “It is a lack of recognition of the economic impact that we have in our community and how much revenue we generate for the state.”

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/entertainment/arts/2024/06/14/desantis-vetoes-most-florida-arts-funding-for-first-time-in-history/74087269007/

There's plenty of taxpayer money for school vouchers to parents to pay for their kids attending religious charter schools, though...

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In historic first, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoes most arts funding in Florida (Original Post) Zorro Jun 2024 OP
Governor Ass Wipe has no idea how huge the backfire will be. Arne Jun 2024 #1
I surely hope so. He just keeps decimating this state. Biophilic Jun 2024 #2
He knows he's term limited. jimfields33 Jun 2024 #6
term limited but... I am Neo Jun 2024 #28
I hope you're right. Baitball Blogger Jun 2024 #12
I'm in a city that's very snobbish and wealthy. Arne Jun 2024 #13
Would that be in a Democratic district? Baitball Blogger Jun 2024 #15
Not at all. Arne Jun 2024 #18
The stupid is strong in this one. onecaliberal Jun 2024 #26
About what I expected SARose Jun 2024 #3
Who does that? jimfields33 Jun 2024 #5
DeSantis SARose Jun 2024 #17
The federal government gives art grants. Hopefully all will be qualified for those. jimfields33 Jun 2024 #4
First the schools then the arts. Phoenix61 Jun 2024 #7
Working towards a dystopian hellscape evert day. CanonRay Jun 2024 #8
Til Eulenspiegel's at it again. no_hypocrisy Jun 2024 #9
Ho ho MuseRider Jun 2024 #33
To all good people in Florida. Sorry about your Governor. You got the shit end of the shtick. twodogsbarking Jun 2024 #10
So kind! Don't worry, there's a lot of us fighting to restore FL, stop the privatization of schools, hospitals, Timeflyer Jun 2024 #11
I'd completely forgotten about them. Arne Jun 2024 #16
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2024 #14
So DeSantis is using the money to pay for "good Christian education" instead of arts and culture? Botany Jun 2024 #19
he LOVES him some GROOMING, as long as it is RELGIOUS GROOMING Skittles Jun 2024 #37
So some 15 year old socially awkward teen who enjoys making pottery will have that taken from .... Botany Jun 2024 #39
it's heartbreaking what is happening to Florida Skittles Jun 2024 #40
Where I live Ohio we have our shits too. Botany Jun 2024 #41
it is disturbing Skittles Jun 2024 #42
I think that down deep they (or at least a vast majority of them) know it is all made up bullshit but for ... Botany Jun 2024 #43
And, that is the issue. OldBaldy1701E Jun 2024 #44
DUH! elleng Jun 2024 #20
DeSantis and his ilk Charlie Chapulin Jun 2024 #21
$90-million for arts out of a $116.5-billion budget is 0.077% SpankMe Jun 2024 #22
Thanks. That's nothing. underpants Jun 2024 #30
Well, churches have paintings not fooled Jun 2024 #38
Idiot. Martin68 Jun 2024 #23
POS wants... 2naSalit Jun 2024 #24
Florida is a Republican test case for the Orban model in the US. It appears to be succeeding there. jalan48 Jun 2024 #25
You still get to work you just can't enjoy things. twodogsbarking Jun 2024 #27
The 1st thing Always Blue Jun 2024 #29
Artists are usually liberal and progressive. OldBaldy1701E Jun 2024 #45
And, most of the funding for the Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm obamanut2012 Jun 2024 #31
Museums exist to display art. BidenRocks Jun 2024 #32
Historically, art and culture are the only things that survive the test of time. OldBaldy1701E Jun 2024 #46
First he went after Disney World, now he's going after the Arts. Fla Dem Jun 2024 #34
Cities and Counties will need to step up Jose Garcia Jun 2024 #35
He also hates differently abled folks obamanut2012 Jun 2024 #36

Arne

(3,601 posts)
1. Governor Ass Wipe has no idea how huge the backfire will be.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 10:32 AM
Jun 2024

Florida man and Florida woman are actually artist of
one form or another.
De Santis will be feathered and tarred for this.
Just how stupid is he?

Arne

(3,601 posts)
13. I'm in a city that's very snobbish and wealthy.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 11:48 AM
Jun 2024

The arts center and downtown art shows are
important to everyone.
They really want to defund PBS and corrupt GCU.
(Gulf Coast University)

jimfields33

(18,837 posts)
4. The federal government gives art grants. Hopefully all will be qualified for those.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 10:59 AM
Jun 2024

I’m surprised our budget is 116 billion. That’s quite a big amount for one state.

Timeflyer

(2,629 posts)
11. So kind! Don't worry, there's a lot of us fighting to restore FL, stop the privatization of schools, hospitals,
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 11:35 AM
Jun 2024

stop corrupt developers with money buying local politicians and bulldozing the environment, restore women's reproductive rights (yes on Amendment 4 in November). But some people move here because we have such a POS MAGA governor and legislature--hard to understand. But then, Scientology HQ is right up the road in Clearwater, apparently doing find. So--cults. But we will fight on.

Arne

(3,601 posts)
16. I'd completely forgotten about them.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 11:54 AM
Jun 2024

They seem to be under the radar.
Still have the Jehovah's come to my door.
I like them until they say, 'The End is Nigh'.
I'm afraid it may be true.

Response to Zorro (Original post)

Botany

(72,473 posts)
19. So DeSantis is using the money to pay for "good Christian education" instead of arts and culture?
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 12:12 PM
Jun 2024

What a complete shit. I hope Florida goes really blue this year.

Botany

(72,473 posts)
39. So some 15 year old socially awkward teen who enjoys making pottery will have that taken from ....
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 07:00 AM
Jun 2024

…. him or her but he or she can learn about Jesus and the good side of slavery thanks
to DeSantis and the right wing bull shit machine. I hope Florida goes very blue this fall
because women’s health care … abortion…. and marijuana are on the ballot too. These
people need to be slapped down hard because they are cruel venial shits.

Skittles

(159,240 posts)
40. it's heartbreaking what is happening to Florida
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 01:58 PM
Jun 2024

but where I live, Abbott is competing with DeSantis to see how can hump Trump the hardest

Botany

(72,473 posts)
41. Where I live Ohio we have our shits too.
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 02:15 PM
Jun 2024

Gym Jordan & J.D. Vance along with some other mouth breathers like some Congressperson
who just tried to debate medical science and evolutionary biology with Dr. Fauci in front of a
some Congressional Committee.

We are up against an industrial level misinformation machine.

Skittles

(159,240 posts)
42. it is disturbing
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 02:18 PM
Jun 2024

still, I tell myself these folk have access to the same information we do - too many of them seem to approve of the garbage they hear

Botany

(72,473 posts)
43. I think that down deep they (or at least a vast majority of them) know it is all made up bullshit but for ...
Thu Jun 20, 2024, 09:16 AM
Jun 2024

…. almost 2 generations now they have a central question and that is; Does what they say or do makes
“the libs” sad and or angry? Along with their being racist, sexist, and anti intellectual shits. Rush Limbaugh tapped into these warped thinking shits from the get go and it made him millions from
rich right wingers who understood that for them to keep power they need lots of dumb ass mouth
breathers who are pissed off “@ the libs.”

OldBaldy1701E

(6,338 posts)
44. And, that is the issue.
Mon Jun 24, 2024, 07:06 AM
Jun 2024

They want this. They dream of this. Their entire existence is about causing pain and suffering to as many people that they don't like as they can.

And, we allow them to call themselves 'human beings'... they disgust me. That is why any pain caused to a rethug is okay with me. They cause more than any of their 'elite' have and will ever suffer.

SpankMe

(3,242 posts)
22. $90-million for arts out of a $116.5-billion budget is 0.077%
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 12:18 PM
Jun 2024

That's 77 one-thousandths of one percent.

If we, as a society, won't spare such a pittance on arts and culture, then we aren't a society. We're soulless drones.

For a political philosophy that worries about government influence over our society and culture, the right wingers are certainly doing whatever they can to re-engineer our society in their own bizzarro image using levers of government.

underpants

(186,611 posts)
30. Thanks. That's nothing.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 01:10 PM
Jun 2024

I calculated it’s an average of $134,529 over 669 programs. If that opera is basically getting 1/2 of the average others obviously are getting more. That’s fine. I’d suspect it’s for kid related stuff here and there. God knows we don’t want the kids to think other than rote memorization of HIS chosen facts.

jalan48

(14,384 posts)
25. Florida is a Republican test case for the Orban model in the US. It appears to be succeeding there.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 12:47 PM
Jun 2024

Always Blue

(51 posts)
29. The 1st thing
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 01:05 PM
Jun 2024

The first thing that fascists do is attack art. Art is the expression of the individual and a culture and they have to shut that down.

OldBaldy1701E

(6,338 posts)
45. Artists are usually liberal and progressive.
Mon Jun 24, 2024, 07:10 AM
Jun 2024

Therefore they have no place inside of GoGo Boots society. He is going after anyone and everyone who has ever thought a bad thing about him or anything he likes. (Such as slow, social torture, creating a society where his cronies have all the power and the rest have to shut up and be good little wage slaves, etc.)

obamanut2012

(27,802 posts)
31. And, most of the funding for the Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 01:12 PM
Jun 2024

Which everyone (I know someone very involved) is shocked by. MANY of the big Zoo boosters are $$$ retirees who vote red.

BidenRocks

(932 posts)
32. Museums exist to display art.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 01:16 PM
Jun 2024

Many cultures are ony known by their arts and crafts.
Our future selfs will be wondering wtf the apprentice was.
Pathetic!

OldBaldy1701E

(6,338 posts)
46. Historically, art and culture are the only things that survive the test of time.
Mon Jun 24, 2024, 07:13 AM
Jun 2024

Those that are not progressive usually end up being forgotten or reviled by history and the future. Not holding my breath for this society.

Fla Dem

(25,679 posts)
34. First he went after Disney World, now he's going after the Arts.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 01:46 PM
Jun 2024

What a truly despicable person he is.

obamanut2012

(27,802 posts)
36. He also hates differently abled folks
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 02:12 PM
Jun 2024

He also vetoed 1 million to Palm Beach County for them to redo a couple hurricane shelters to make them larger and have capabilities to provide support to special needs folks.

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