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What's the matter with Ron DeSantis’ Florida?
His recent moves are a transparently cynical ploy to win over Republican voters who enjoy nothing more than angering liberals.
By Michael A. Cohen, MSNBC Columnist - March 8, 2023

DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt gets a new, larger price tag
By Steve Benen - Jan. 10, 2023
Ron DeSantis’ Martha's Vineyard scheme wasn’t just morally, legally and politically dubious. It was also expensive for Florida taxpayers.

DeSantis’ culture war isn’t just divisive, it’s also expensive
By Steve Benen - Dec. 28, 2022
To date, Florida taxpayers have had to pay nearly $17 million to defend Ron DeSantis’ culture war agenda in the courts. He has lost far more than he’s won.

Ron DeSantis' voter fraud arrests aim to suppress Black votes
DeSantis seems to be counting on the arrests to discourage some share of Democrats from voting.
By Jesse J. Holland, MSNBC Opinion Columnist -Oct. 19, 2022

'What is woke math?': In Florida, public school teachers bristle at DeSantis's changes to education
MARQUISE FRANCIS for Yahoo News
September 14, 2022,

DeSantis has officially turned Florida into a global embarrassment
By Ja'han Jones - Aug. 31, 2022
A United Nations committee released a report voicing concerns about racist discrimination facilitated by Florida's anti-protest law, House Bill 1.

Florida tells schools to ignore Biden protections for trans kids
The Florida Department of Education said Thursday schools could be punished if they follow the Biden administration's new Title IX guidelines.
By Ja'han Jones - MSNBC July 29, 2022

Florida students return to schools reshaped by Gov. DeSantis' anti-'woke' education agenda
By Steve Contorno, CNN - Sat August 13, 2022

Why Florida’s Ron DeSantis suspended an elected state attorney
By Steve Benen - for MSNBC - Aug. 4, 2022
An elected prosecutor in Florida said he wouldn't enforce abortion bans, so Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis replaced the state attorney with someone else.

Gov. DeSantis Uses 1947 Court Ruling To Go After Miami Drag Show
Activists fear the Republican's step is the latest in an all-out war on drag shows and trans people.
By Mary Papenfuss for Huffpost - Jul 29, 2022

Why Won’t Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Denounce His Neo-Nazi Supporters?
By KAT BOUZA - Rolling Stone - JULY 26, 2022 1:00AM ET

Veterans can now teach in Florida with no degree. School leaders say it 'lowers the bar
Gershon Harrell - The Gainesville Sun - July 21, 2022
'Education leaders feel as though Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is undermining the qualifications of classroom instructors.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rounded up his top national donors and fellow GOP governors for a day-long meeting with ‘drinks and cigars’ as he eyes 2024
By WALTER FINCH for Daily Mail - 13 July 2022
DeSantis is set to hold another private fundraiser for his gubernatorial re-election campaign next week in the State of Utah that is expected to draw some of the country's wealthiest Republican donors.

Crist slams DeSantis on property insurance crisis, says he’d fire insurance commissioner
Mahsa Saeidi - 8 ON YOUR SIDE - Updated: Jul 27, 2022

VIDEO: Political Ad from Charlie Crist

Florida Gov. DeSantis is doing battle against ‘woke’ public schools
By Greg Allen (NPR) July 13, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made it clear how he views public schools and what they’re teaching children: He doesn’t trust them. "Following woke indoctrination in our schools, that is a road to ruin for this country," he said. "And we're not going to let it happen in Florida."

In DeSantis’ Florida, Miami doctor learns: Criticize the government at your own risk
Editorial - BY THE MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD
UPDATED JULY 01, 2022 3:12 PM

As reported by Fox "News"
MSNBC column sounds red alert over DeSantis: 'Most dangerous figure in American politics'
By Gabriel Hays | Fox News
Published April 29, 2022 2:52pm EDT
'What makes DeSantis such a uniquely worrying character is that there is seemingly no political sewer into which he won’t wade.'

VIDEO: What does the overturn of Roe v Wade mean to Floridians?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a far more dangerous politician than Donald Trump
By Michael A. Cohen, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
April 28, 2022, 5:12 AM EDT
Like Trump, DeSantis' time in office would be marked by attempts to pit Americans against one another. But unlike Trump, DeSantis has the proven ability to follow through.

JOSH HAWLEY JOINS RON DESANTIS’S RIDICULOUS WAR OF RETRIBUTION ON DISNEY
By BESS LEVIN for Vanity Fair
MAY 11, 2022
The Missouri senator is the latest conservative trying to destroy Mickey Mouse.

VIDEO: Ex-Miami Beach mayor criticizes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' COVID-19 response

Eight Times Ron DeSantis "Accidentally" Did Racist Stuff
JERRY IANNELLI for Miami New Times
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 8:00AM

‘Dumbest s---’: DeSantis takes heat as he goes his own way on coronavirus
The Florida governor is in the spotlight as cases multiply.
By MATT DIXON for Politico
03/24/2020 11:34 AM EDT

VIDEO: RON DESANTIS’ CORPORATE CORRUPTION SCANDAL EXPOSED
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is running a multi-billion dollar corporate welfare extravaganza.

Report: Florida Doctors Think Ron DeSantis Is a National Embarrassment
BY BESS LEVIN in Vanity Fair
AUGUST 2, 2021
The medical community thinks the governor, who claims everything is fine despite the state being the biggest COVID-19 hot spot in the country, is a clown.

VIDEO: Ari Melber: 'Mini-Trump' DeSantis' Covid-19 Failures Are So Bad They Are Making Florida Miss 2020

Ron DeSantis Is Hard at Work Doing Bad Shit
You name the progressive cause, and DeSantis has taken substantive steps to stymie it over the past few days, waging attacks on everything from gun control to vaccine mandates to trans rights.
By ABIGAIL WEINBERG - for Mother Jones
JUNE 3, 2022

Ron DeSantis, Smug Asshole, Takes Time Out Of His Day To Yell At Students For Wearing Masks
The Florida governor called mask-wearing “ridiculous” and “COVID theater.”
BY BESS LEVIN for Vanity Fair
MARCH 2, 2022

Ron DeSantis once expressed support for privatizing Social Security and Medicare
By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN - February 9, 2023

'Positively Dystopian': Federal Judge Blocks DeSantis' 'Stop WOKE' Act
Law.com - November 17, 2022 at 01:23 PM
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker called the law “extravagant doublespeak” and an attack on both professors and student’s First Amendment rights.

DeSantis administration says federal poll monitors 'not permitted' at Florida polling sites
Fox News - Nov 8, 2022
The DeSantis administration warned Biden’s Department of Justice late Monday that federal Election Day poll monitors are "not permitted" inside polling places under Florida law, and said Florida will send its own monitors to "ensure there is no interference in the voting process."

Don't let what happened in Virgina happen in Florida - AGAIN!
Glenn Youngkin had moderate Republicans fooled
By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Opinion Columnist -Oct. 20, 2022
Glenn Youngkin won the governor’s race in the Democratic-leaning state of Virginia last year in part by branding himself as a moderate conservative who declined to embrace the Trumpian way. Now he’s out in Arizona campaigning for gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, a Trump-worshipping, hard-core 2020 election denier.

Ron DeSantis' voter fraud arrests aim to suppress Black votes
By Jesse J. Holland, MSNBC Opinion Columnist - Oct. 19, 2022,
DeSantis seems to be counting on the arrests to discourage some share of Democrats from voting.

Treasury IG Probing DeSantis' Migrant Flight Spending
By Charlie McCarthy for Newsmax - 12 October 2022

DeSantis pushes ‘national regime media’ theory following storm
By Steve Benen - Oct. 5, 2022, 3:12 PM EDT
The governor honestly seemed to believe that journalists wanted to see a massive hurricane strike one of Florida’s largest cities because of their deep hatred for the state.

DeSantis becomes the latest Republican to evolve on disaster aid
As a congressman, Ron DeSantis rejected a key disaster relief package. As a governor, the Florida Republican has evolved in politically convenient ways.
Sept. 30, 2022, 11:04 AM EDT - By Steve Benen

DeSantis goes from depraved to docile as he seeks federal aid after Ian
From The ReidOut with Joy Reid - Sept 29, 2022

VIDEO: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to boast about flying Texas migrants to Martha's Vineyard. Yet, state records show that his administration paid an aviation company $615,000 dollars from the "relocation program of unauthorized aliens," via the Florida Department of Transportation, which received $12 million dollars in state funding for the program