Tag Archives: Florida

Florida Bill Would Cancel All Requests To Vote By Mail

Orlando’s NBC affiliate reports: A senator in Florida is pushing a bill that would make it more difficult to vote by mail. Currently, people who want to vote by mail in the state of Florida simply register to vote and request a mail-in ballot. However, Senate Bill 1752, filed by state Sen. Blaise Ingolia, would change that system with one …

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TODAY: Florida GOP Votes On Removing Chairman

The Associated Press reports: The Republican Party of Florida is scheduled to hold a special meeting Monday to vote on removing Chairman Christian Ziegler and select a new leader as police investigate a rape accusation against him. Beyond the rape accusation, there is another troublesome element for the party. Under DeSantis, Florida has stripped rights away from LGBTQ+ Floridians and …

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FBI Collars Three Fugitive Rioters On J6 Anniversary

The Huffington Post reports: Three years to the date after the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, a trio of allegedly violent rioters were arrested in an early morning raid on a Florida ranch. The FBI’s Tampa division said 24-year-old Jonathan Daniel Pollock, 33-year-old Olivia Michele Pollock and 27-year-old Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III were all apprehended Saturday in Groveland, Florida, …

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Florida GOP Bill Would Ban Minors From Social Media

Florida Politics reports: Legislation filed late Friday would prohibit minors in Florida from having social media accounts. Fiona McFarland, a Sarasota Republican, filed the legislation (HB 1). Of note, the designation of HB 1 is normally held for priority legislation for House leadership. As written, the bill would require tech companies to enact reasonable age verification methods, prevent anyone under …

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DeSantis Repeats Claim Legal Pot May Contain Fentanyl

Florida Politics reports: During an interview on The Big Show on KCPS, the Governor pointed to Colorado as an illustration of how legalized cannabis in that early adopter state didn’t destroy the illegal market for the product. Last month on the trail, he suggested that patients in Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program use medical conditions as a “pretext” for getting high. …

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FDA Allows Florida To Import Drugs From Canada

Axios reports: The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a plan allowing Florida to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, opening the door for states to buy direct from pharmacies there to stock their state-run health programs. The approval, the first of its kind, allows the Biden administration to show it’s addressing a major voter concern in an election …

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DeSantis: “I Respect SCOTUS’s Decision” On Marriage

“I respect the Supreme Court’s decision. We’ve abided by that in Florida even though our Constitution defines it as between a man and a woman. But I think what we need to recognize is, you know, you are going to have people try to wield power against our religious institutions and try to marginalize them simply by upholding the biblical …

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Florida Venue Cancels MTG’s Capitol Riot Celebration

NBC News reports: A central Florida venue has canceled an event that was to have featured Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., after it learned the event was intended to commemorate the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The event was set to be hosted by the Republican Party of Osceola County at the Westgate …

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Once-Fugitive Florida Proud Boy Rioter Gets 10 Years

From the Justice Department: A Florida man who became a fugitive after he was convicted on felony assault charges for his actions at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced today. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 …

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Joseph Ladapo: COVID Vaccines Are “The Anti-Christ”

“The evidence is a combination of their guidance documents in the past that acknowledged the risk of DNA integration and the need to test for it to make sure you’re not fouling up the human genome. “Their evidence is their acknowledgment that there is DNA in there. And that’s been found to be billions of particles, small particles of DNA …

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Experts Roast FL Surgeon General’s Latest Batshittery

The Washington Post reports: “We’ve seen this pattern from Dr. Ladapo that every few months he raises some new concern and it quickly gets debunked,” said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s public health school who led the White House’s national coronavirus response. “This idea of DNA fragments — it’s scientific nonsense. People who understand how these vaccines are made …

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DeSantis Pitches “Satellite” Iowa Caucus Site In Florida

Florida Politics reports: With less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses that are pivotal to his presidential hopes, Ron DeSantis is worried that his voters will be in his state rather than where he needs them Jan. 15. “Look, we should have probably figured out a way to have a satellite caucus site down in Southwest Florida,” he added. …

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FL Bill Mandates Teaching That Dems Backed Slavery

Florida Politics reports: The so-called Kamala Harris Truth in Slavery Teaching Act (SB 1192, HB 1139) contemplates “requiring instruction on the history of African Americans to include a comprehensive account of the sociopolitical circumstances surrounding slavery, including which political parties supported slavery by adopting pro-slavery tenets as part of their platform, etc.” “Recently, in Jacksonville, Vice President Kamala Harris commented …

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FL GOP Ends Sales Of “Stand Against Perverts” Swag

Florida Politics reports: The Republican Party of Florida as of Tuesday sold mugs displaying a Christian Ziegler quote: “Stand with parents, not perverts.” But after images went viral, the merchandise disappeared from the party’s online shop. The change came weeks after a Spotify channel for the Leadership Institute deleted all episodes of its “Learn Right” podcast hosted by Bridget Ziegler. …

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Florida Surgeon General: Stop Using COVID Vaccines

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo took the extraordinary step Wednesday of “calling for a halt to the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” a move that contradicts federal health authorities and again makes Florida an outlier. Ladapo said in a statement released by the Florida Department of Health that he raised questions about the safety of the …

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DeSantis: My Shipping Of Migrants Was A Christian Act

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s Governor is defending his administration’s transport of undocumented immigrants to Massachusetts, which some critics have described as “human trafficking,” as compatible with the teachings of Jesus Christ. Ron DeSantis was asked Tuesday about shipping migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. Told that some Iowa Christian conservatives didn’t see that as a “Christian-like effort,” the Governor rejected …

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Sean Hannity: I’ve Moved To The “Free State Of Florida”

“If anybody is listening to this program for any length of time, I’ve been threatening now to do this for quite a while. But we are now beginning our first broadcast of my new home, and that is in the free state of Florida. I am out. I am done. I’m finished. New York, New York. Goodbye. Florida. Florida. If …

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Florida GOP Chair May Face Video Voyeurism Charges

The Florida Trident reports: Sarasota police are investigating whether Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler unlawfully videotaped the sexual encounter at the heart of a rape allegation against him, a third search warrant affidavit obtained by the Florida Trident reveals. Based on the newly released Dec. 8 police affidavit, Circuit Judge Thomas Krug issued a search warrant for Ziegler’s Instagram account …

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DeSantis: I’ll Pardon Trump “Like Ford Did To Nixon”

NBC News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offered the clearest indication yet that he would pardon former President Donald Trump if he were to be convicted on the multiple criminal charges he faces, clarifying previously murky answers on how the Republican governor would use his pardon powers if elected president. “I think we got to move on as a country …

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FL Woman Sues Because Candy Doesn’t Have Smiles

Reuters reports: Hershey has been sued by a Florida woman who said its holiday-themed Reese’s peanut butter candies lack the artistic details shown on the packaging that make them worth buying. In a proposed federal class action filed on Thursday and seeking at least $5 million, Cynthia Kelly accused Hershey of deceiving reasonable consumers by falsely promising that its candies …

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