DeSantis Turns Signing of Florida Voter Suppression Bill Into Partisan Circus

Read Time:1 Minute, 33 Second
Ron DeSantis by Getty Images

by Laura Clawson

There’s sucking up to Donald Trump and then there’s this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took it to the next level on Thursday morning when he not only signed a voter suppression bill inspired by Trump’s election lies, he turned the event at which he signed the bill into a Fox News exclusive. And not just Fox News—specifically Trump’s favorite show, Fox & Friends.

The signing had an audience of hundreds of supporters of DeSantis and Trump, but all the reporters other than Fox were shut out.

It took just minutes after DeSantis signed the bill for pro-democracy organizations, including the League of Women Voters of Florida, Black Voters Matters Fund, Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund to file lawsuits challenging it.

The new Florida law includes by-now-familiar restrictions on voting like limiting the availability of ballot drop boxes, making it more difficult to vote by mail, and preventing groups from offering water or snacks to people waiting in long voting lines. Once people get in to vote in person, they could be confronted by the army of partisan poll watchers the new law allows, who will be able to crowd in around election workers. Additionally it replaces special elections for some local office vacancies with appointments by the governor—at a time when DeSantis is also delaying a special election in a majority-Black district for 280 days after the death of Rep. Alcee Hastings. In other words, it’s a mixture of some of the worst things we’d already seen in states like Georgia with some extra special Florida twists.

Read the rest of the story at Daily Kos.

About Post Author

Professor Mike

Professor Mike is a left-leaning, dog loving, political junkie. He has written dozens of articles for Substack, Medium, Simily, and Tribel. Professor Mike has been published at Smerconish.com, among others. He is a strong proponent of the environment, and a passionate protector of animals. In addition he is a fierce anti-Trumper. Take a moment and share his work.
Happy
Happy
0 %
Sad
Sad
0 %
Excited
Excited
0 %
Sleepy
Sleepy
0 %
Angry
Angry
0 %
Surprise
Surprise
0 %
0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of

3 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
2 years ago

This guy won because of Fox’s support. I’d never heard of him because I don’t watch Fox – but the Fat Führer does and liked what he saw. Fox performed this ritual offering in front of the official Republican propaganda ministry and the “audience” was the Trump Fan Club bussed in for the occasion. The cherry on top of the bullshit sundae, was that the bill he signed was a fake. The real one was elsewhere, presumably signed or to be signed elsewhere.

As we all know, the Florida election was a model one and nearly flawless and DeSantis bragged about it proudly, yet as with all the Trumpist asswipes the need is to keep wiping which requires that the election be denounced and that’s just the dilemma DeSantis faces. His choice is to have it both ways and trust his audience is deranged enough to swallow the doublethink and keep waving those flags. Sieg Heil.

When do we pass the event horizon? Is it already too late?

Bill Formby
Reply to  Professor Mike
2 years ago

Mike, I learned long, long ago that you just have to get in good with the right people. I had an uncle way back when who, out of nowhere, suddenly ran for city council and won over and over again. He was just a beer-drinking buddy of the right people, who knew the other right people with campaign money.

Previous post Airlines Levy Heavy Fines For Idiots Who Attack Attendants Over Mask Requirements
Next post Why Does My Dog Curl Up To Sleep?
3
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x