Florida Politics reports:
Gov. Ron DeSantis has not shied away from commenting on national and international controversies. China, Venezuela, our southern border — he’ll opine at great length and ferocity. About the mass murder this week in Uvalde, Texas — where an 18-year-old shot to death 19 small kids and two teachers — he has uttered not a peep. Even Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, Florida’s two Republican U.S. Senators, have issued statements decrying the violence.
Desantis has avoided being drawn into such matters when it doesn’t suit him. For example, seven months after taking office, he rejected suggestions that Donald Trump’s embrace of white nationalism egged on a mass shooting of Hispanic people in El Paso that killed 22. “I have no interest in being part of people’s political narratives. I understand the narratives. I’ve seen it for years and years. I’m trying to focus on solutions,” DeSantis said at the time.
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The latest: ‘I have no interest in being part of people’s political narratives.’@GovRonDeSantis’ silence on #Texas school murders fits a pattern, critics contend@MichaelEMoline reporting via @FLPhoenixNewshttps://t.co/38HTi4AuYf#FlaPol
— Phil Ammann (@PhilAmmann) May 27, 2022
Parents & children across our state are anxious to go to school but FL hasn’t heard one word from @GovRonDeSantis regarding the Uvalde massacre.
Why?
Bc like Rubio & Scott he’s bought & paid for by the @NRA
They endorsed DeSantis w/an A+ rating & spent $200k to elect him. pic.twitter.com/8FqiNrN6DP— Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (@DebbieforFL) May 26, 2022