DeSantis Vetoes Funding For “Woke” Zoo Upon Urging Of Anti-LGBTQ Rep Who Is Butthurt Over Trans Protest

June 17, 2023 Politics, Republicans

The Daytona Beach News reports:

A requested $2 million slate of funding for the Brevard Zoo was vetoed this week by Governor Ron DeSantis, likely as a result of a political dispute between the zoo and a Republican legislator. The zoo was hoping to use the funds to help create a new aquarium facility in Port Canaveral. The dispute arose when Randy Fine, a Republican state Representative from Melbourne Beach, rented out a space at the Brevard Zoo to hold a fundraising event for his 2024 state Senate bid.

Due to Fine’s positions on transgender issues in Florida, a group of demonstrators assembled outside the zoo to protest Fine’s event.  In the aftermath of the protest the Brevard Zoo confirmed it was considering no longer renting its spaces to campaign events. Fine confirmed in interviews to state media outlets that he had, indeed, lobbied DeSantis regarding the zoo shortly before the funding was vetoed. He added, “in the state of Florida, if you go woke, you go broke.”

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Fine appeared on JMG in May 2022 when he tweeted what many interpreted as a threat to assassinate President Biden.

Before that, Fine appeared on JMG when he called for felony charges after Florida Democrats staged a sit-in over the racist US House map submitted by DeSantis. 

And before that, he appeared here when he threatened to defund a Florida Special Olympics event and called a local school board member a “whore” because she’d been invited its fundraiser gala and he was not.

Fine was a sponsor of the bill that stripped Disney’s self-governing status. His family owns annual passes to the “woke” theme park giant.

He recently arranged for a Florida town to honor a war criminal who was convicted of executing four Iraqi prisoners. He last appeared here in April 2023, when he declared, “Damn right, we ought to erase” LGBTQs.

Fine is also a sponsor of Florida’s bill criminalizing drag shows in view of minors. Of note, his wife runs a self-described “sultry” burlesque show that would violate her husband’s law.



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