The Daily Beast reports:
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to ignore rumors about a potential 2024 presidential bid. Instead, he turned his ire to “woke math” at a Friday gathering in Tampa for the conservative group Moms for Liberty.
He boasted that, after a recent Department of Education review, woke math books in Florida were sent back to publishers, who “took the woke out and sent us back normal math books.”
“I’m just thinking to myself, like, two plus two equals four, right? It’s not ‘two plus two equals four, well, how do you feel about that? Is that an injustice?’”
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Teachers came to downtown #Tampa today to sound off against Moms For Liberty and Governor Ron DeSantis.
One teacher said the Governor and the right wing group want to "squash public education as we know it."https://t.co/CoEUJ82RKz
— Justin Garcia (@JustinGarciaFL) July 15, 2022
Tampa Bay teachers protest Ron DeSantis and Moms For Liberty summit in downtown Tampahttps://t.co/mhvW1bIxUV
— Creative Loafing: Tampa Bay (@cl_tampabay) July 15, 2022
Gov. DeSantis was gifted a gladiator sword by the group, Moms for Liberty. “It is what the gladiators were awarded with after they had fought a long hard battle for freedom,” the governor was told.https://t.co/0r6gK1ouF3
— WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) July 15, 2022
@GovRonDeSantis pushes book censorship at "Moms for Liberty" event in Tampa, to win school board elections https://t.co/V5gLRj5fdU
— JP ? (@appliedsoft) July 15, 2022
Dale Morvaji of the podcast “2 Guys 1 Coup” came outside to confront teachers who are protesting DeSantis and Moms for Liberty right wing agenda in schools. Here he says Jan. 6 2021 “wasn’t an insurrection” pic.twitter.com/Mfu4Y6JLva
— Justin Garcia (@JustinGarciaFL) July 15, 2022
Moms For Liberty awards #Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with what they referred to as a Rudis sword – which was given to Roman slaves when they won battles to the death pic.twitter.com/vPtcGWunWA
— Justin Garcia (@JustinGarciaFL) July 15, 2022