Governor Ron DeSantis: You Sick and Dying Floridians Better Not Derail My POTUS Dreams!!

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[GreyhoundFan]

"DeSantis is smarter than Trump. That makes him more of a threat."

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is having a moment. Pundits are suggesting that the Jan. 6 hearings, by exposing former president Donald Trump’s complicity in a coup attempt, will redound to DeSantis’s benefit in 2024. Already, a poll in New Hampshire shows DeSantis topping Trump. The question, from the standpoint of those of us who have a sentimental attachment to American democracy, is which man is a bigger threat to the republic? I found myself grappling with that issue as I read a long and enlightening profile of DeSantis by Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker.

Filkins notes that, “while Trump, with his lazy, Barnumesque persona, projects a fundamental lack of seriousness, DeSantis has an intense work ethic, a formidable intelligence, and a granular understanding of policy. Articulate and fast on his feet, he has been described as Trump with a brain.” But do we really want a president who will work harder and more intelligently to implement a Trumpian agenda? Is it really better to have a president who is relentlessly focused on right-wing bugaboos such as critical race theory, transgender athletes, undocumented immigrants and “woke corporations” rather than one who is easily distracted into braggadocio about his golf game or his flooring?

Actually, the more I read about DeSantis, the more he reminds me not of Trump but of another disgraced Republican president. One of DeSantis’s Yale baseball teammates told Filkins he is really “smart” but deficient in interpersonal skills: “He has always loved embarrassing and humiliating people. I’m speaking for others — he was the biggest d---k we knew.” A former House colleague said of DeSantis: “He’s a little reclusive, a bit of an odd duck … but he’s just incredibly disciplined.”

Smart and disciplined but reclusive and unpleasant: Who does that remind you of? That’s right: Richard M. Nixon. And I don’t mean the Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency, implemented affirmative action, went to China and took other surprisingly liberal steps. DeSantis has never shown any similar willingness to challenge his base. I’m thinking of the Nixon who smeared his opponents (he accused Adlai Stevenson of having a “Ph.D. from Dean Acheson’s cowardly college of Communist containment”) and warred with the press (“You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore,” he said in 1962, “because gentlemen, this is my last press conference”). I’m thinking of the Nixon who employed the government against his “enemies list,” catered to White bigotry (the Southern strategy) and exacerbated social divisions in an attempt to mobilize the Silent Majority against liberal elites.

DeSantis seems hellbent on carrying on the disreputable legacy of Tricky Dick, and with even less respect for democratic norms than Nixon displayed. Indeed, he wages culture war with a ruthlessness that recalls Nixon during the bombing of Cambodia.

DeSantis signed legislation severely curtailing mask and vaccine mandates for businesses and local governments, thereby running roughshod over private property rights even while denouncing Democrats as socialists. The University of Florida — controlled by DeSantis appointees — has forbidden professors from testifying against DeSantis plans to restrict mask-wearing and voting rights. A pediatrician was removed from a state board overseeing children’s health insurance after criticizing DeSantis’s outrageous reluctance to provide covid vaccines for children under five.

DeSantis refuses to say whether President Biden was legitimately elected and criticizes the Jan. 6 committee hearings. He created a special task force to police voter fraud even though there is no evidence of widespread fraud. In the name of election security, he also pushed through a bill restricting voting rights that was largely struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional. A DeSantis-backed “anti-riot” bill, passed in response to Black Lives Matter rallies, was blocked by another federal judge for infringing on the First Amendment.

DeSantis signed a “don’t say gay” law restricting discussion of gender and sexuality issues in public schools — and then took away tax breaks from Disney for criticizing the legislation. In a similarly vindictive vein, he vetoed state funding for a Tampa Bay Rays training facility after the baseball team had the temerity to call for gun-safety legislation to stop mass shootings.

DeSantis signed legislation to limit what schools, colleges and workplaces can teach about race and identity, while promulgating teacher training wrongly claiming that the Founders didn’t really want separation of church and state. He also signed legislation that would give the state greater control over what is taught in universities under the guise of promoting viewpoint “diversity.” He is even threatening to investigate parents who take their kids to drag shows.

In short, DeSantis is engaged in one of the most alarming assaults on free speech and academic freedom since the dark days of McCarthyism in the 1950s, when Nixon rose to power. His actions may not be as blatant as inciting a mob to attack Congress, but his record reveals a troubling pattern of authoritarianism and vindictiveness that would be extremely dangerous in the Oval Office.

Just because DeSantis is smarter than Trump doesn’t mean that he is any less dangerous. In fact, he might be an even bigger threat for that very reason.

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Copying TFG's grifting style:

 

Some good replies:

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[GreyhoundFan]

[fraurosena]

Soooo... today I've been getting a lot of ads with a Ron DeSantis approval survey and if I get one more I'm going to fill it in. I'm sure he wants to know what a European liberal leftie thinks of him. 

 

And I just filled it in, only had the choice between Yes and No in answer to the question if I thought he's doing a good job. Had to google a Florida zipcode and fill in an email address (I have one for ads and other stuff like that) and that's all it took. 

Of course I got sent to a donation page straight after. 

[fraurosena]

Oh my, I got a personalized email! Yay me. Ron is such a great guy, who despite my 'NO' response he still considers a Friend. A friend, by the way, from whom he doesn't take "no" for an answer.

Text under spoiler, with my comments in blue:

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Dear Friend,

Thank you for joining me in the fight to keep Florida FREE! - Ron, I said "NO".

While we have already accomplished so much, I have only just begun to fight and having you alongside me makes all the difference. Ronny, for the third time: I said "NO".

Since taking the oath of office and becoming Florida’s governor, I have been a leader who the people of Florida can count on to do what’s right. Other politicians cowered in fear to Big Tech, but we took them head-on. We gave Floridians a chance to fight back against these Big Tech oligarchs and a mechanism to hold them accountable for their political censorship with their illegitimate attempts to crack down on free speech. You mean your fight against Disney? Yeah, that's turning out real well for you, isn't it? 

While some states allowed COVID to serve as a Trojan horse that dismantled their free and fair elections, I REFUSED to allow Florida’s elections to be compromised. As a result, we securely counted over 11 million ballots before midnight on Election Day during the 2020 election. Yes, and it only cost you 76.662 Floridian deaths.

After what we saw in other states during 2020, I knew we must act to secure our elections before Democrats could use COVID as an excuse to hijack our fair election process. I signed legislation to strengthen and further secure Florida’s election system, including banning ballot harvesting, unsolicited mail ballots and "Zuckerbucks." Wut?

I reject Biden's disastrous open border policies and the drugs, crime, and human trafficking that flows unabated over our southern border as a result. That’s why I was the first governor to answer the call for assistance from governors of Texas and Arizona, and why I sent Florida law enforcement to help aid with securing our country. 

I also BANNED sanctuary cities in Florida, and after the riots and destruction we saw take place in other cities in 2020, I signed the strictest anti-rioting legislation anywhere in America. I will never allow us to become a safe haven for crime in this state. Our law enforcement deserves our steadfast support, and with the sacrifices they make to keep our communities safe each and every day, we were able to provide every sworn first responder in Florida with a $1,000 bonus. But what about gun control? What have you done about that? Because so far this year in Florida alone there have been 13,952 injuries and deaths due gun violence, of which there were 222 mass shootings and 9 mass murders. 122 babies, toddlers and children aged 0-11 died (with 271 injured), and 451 kids aged 12-17 were killed (with 1171 injured) -- and this is your own state data. 

As other states used COVID as an opportunity to impose authoritarian restrictions, I protected the right of Floridians to work, operate a business, and make decisions for themselves. Projection much? I followed the data and kept Florida open and kept kids in school. Without our efforts in the face of scrutiny from Democratic politicians and corporate media shills, who knows what the nationwide business and education climate would be today. In an effort to make Florida’s education system the best in America, I signed the largest school choice expansion anywhere in the country. We are expanding civics education to give students the tools they need to effectively fulfill their civic duty as citizens, all while BANNING critical race theory from the classroom. This only goes to show that catering to white people only is what you are all about.

Because of my leadership, Florida has become a beacon of light for the rest of America. We represent freedom, personal liberty, and opportunity for everyone. There is still much to fight for and much left to accomplish, which is why your continued support is vital. Thanks to you, we can continue to meet the strongest of challenges and overcome the tallest hurdles. You are precisely the opposite, Ronny. You are a prime example of all that is wrong with America.

Thank you for your support and just know, I have only begun to fight! For the fourth and final time, Ron, I SAID "NO"!

Sincerely,



Ron DeSantis

DONATE NOW Hell no.

Paid by Ron DeSantis, Republican, for Governor.

Apparently, I've also unwittingly subscribed myself to his newsletter grift letter. Just for shits and giggles, I'm not going to unsubscribe just yet. 

 

Edited July 18, 2022 by fraurosena

[Audrey2]

@fraurosena, please remember that DeSantis is a white Republican male. To white Republican males women do not have the agency to say no, either to protect their bodily autonomy or any other kind of autonomy. They have to be good little submissive women and do whatever the men want because white man.

Edited July 18, 2022 by Audrey2

[fraurosena]

48 minutes ago, Audrey2 said:

They have to be good little submissive women

Uh-oh.

At 5.11 I'm a good two inches taller than Ronny. Plus, I'm definitely not submissive... now what? 

[GreyhoundFan]

[fraurosena]

Ron DeSantis' Team, who consider me their Friend, have emailed me!

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Dear Friend,

Governor DeSantis is the #1 target for the radical Left and Democrats across the country. Why? Because he’s putting Florida FIRST and protecting our American values from the Left’s insane agenda. 

Just this year, Governor DeSantis has:

  Held Big Tech accountable 

  Stood strong AGAINST the Chinese Communist Party

  Kept our state OPEN for business and kids in the classroom

  Signed anti-rioting legislation

  Protected women’s sports

  Banned Critical Race Theory in schools

  Strengthened Election Integrity by banning ballot harvesting and prohibiting Zuckerbucks 

  Banned Vaccine Passports

And he's just getting started.

So, our team wants to know… What issues matter MOST to you?

Your feedback on the issues is critical.

TAKE THE SURVEY

Thank you for your steadfast support of our mission and our values. Together, we WILL keep Florida free! 

Team DeSantis 

If you follow the link to the Survey, here are the issues he wants to have my feedback on.

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Holding Big Tech Accountable

Fighting Government Overreach

Enforcing Immigration Laws

Election Integrity

Protecting the 2nd Amendment

Holding Chinese Communist Party Accountable

Election Integrity

Unmasking Kids

Protecting the Environment

Ending Mask Mandates

Banning Vaccine Passports

Banning Critical Race Theory in Schools

Fighting Socialist Policies

OTHER ISSUE

It's a shame that they want my phone number, because I'd love to be able to fill in the "OTHER" option. Although I thought about filling in a random number, I don't want some stranger to receive unsolicited political calls from DeSantis' team. I also thought of filling in the number of his Democratic opponent, but the primaries won't be until August 23 and I don't know who'll be running against him. So I guess he'll have to do without my input this time. 

[fraurosena]

Well, I'm going to be able to fill in the "Other", with thanks to @GreyhoundFan!

I have not submitted it yet, but so far I've posted the Democratic candidates issues. Does anyone have any additional ideas before I hit submit?

Here's what I filled in. Sorry, but the all caps is automatic to the site and can't be altered. It's also without a maximum entry (at least not one that I've reached yet), so it looks like I can still add as many issues as I want. 

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EXPAND NUMBER OF BALLOT BOXES; AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION; EXPAND MEDICAID AND INCREASE MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN FROM BIRTH TO ONE YEAR POSTPARTUM; CHAMPION THE RIGHTS OF A WOMAN TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTHCARE DECISIONS; DECLARE A TEACHER SHORTAGE EMERGENCY AND AGGRESSIVELY BEGIN RECRUITING TEACHERS AND EDUCATION SUPPORT STAFF TO FILL 9,000 EMPTY CLASSROOMS AND OTHER CRITICAL EDUCATION POSITIONS; LISTEN TO AND RESPECT PARENTS WHILE EASING THEIR PAIN OF POLITICIZED CLASSROOMS AND PANDEMIC LEARNING LOSS, INCLUDING THE REDUCTION IN READING SCORES OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS; INVEST IN HIGHER TEACHER PAY BY BRINGING STARTING SALARY BEYOND $47,500 AND VETERAN SALARY TO NATIONAL AVERAGE OF $67,000; INCREASE INVESTMENTS IN STUDENTS TO ENHANCE CURRICULUM AND IMPROVE ESE AND CTE EDUCATION; EXPAND VOLUNTARY PRE-KINDERGARTEN TO 3-YEAR-OLDS, INCREASE AVAILABILITY OF ALL-DAY PRE-K; MAKE SCHOOLS SAFER BY BUILDING A CULTURE AND CLIMATE OF TRUST AND RESPECT BETWEEN PARENTS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS, NON-INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF, ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT; AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL; CRIMINAL REFORM; AFFORDABLE HOUSING; ECONOMIC EXPANSION; LOWER COST OF LIVING; EXPAND PUBLIC SAFETY AND REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE 

 

Edited July 25, 2022 by fraurosena

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[fraurosena]

In the end I had to reduce my contribution to 255 characters. I condensed most of the words and managed to keep most of the issues. Oh, and I had to fill in my name, which is of course Edmo Tarc, of Miami Dade county. 

[WiseGirl]

Alarming. "Ron DeSantis, unconstrained by constitutional checks, is flexing his power in Florida ahead of 2024 decision"

From the article "The ruthless display of raw political power in removing Hillsborough County state attorney Andrew Warren, however brazen and unprecedented, was merely the latest example of a new reality in Florida: DeSantis is governing unconstrained by the traditional checks on executive authority."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/ron-desantis-florida-political-power-2024-election/index.html

[GreyhoundFan]

"A progressive prosecutor clashed with DeSantis. Now he’s out of a job."

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TAMPA — State Attorney Andrew Warren was waiting for a grand jury to issue indictments in two rape and murder cases he had been working on for three years when he glanced down at his phone and saw an email from an attorney for Gov. Ron DeSantis.

It said he was suspended from his job.

Stunned, Warren quickly went to his office to consult with his staff. Not long after, there was a knock at the door. An armed major from the county sheriff’s office and a man in a suit from the governor’s office carrying a copy of DeSantis’ executive order suspending him were looking for him.

“He said, essentially, ‘The governor has suspended you and you need to leave the office now,’” Warren, a Democrat, recalled of DeSantis’ aide. “So within maybe seven minutes from getting the email, I was outside, on the street. The major offered me a ride home because they took my car.”

The dramatic ouster has alarmed many in Florida, who say DeSantis — widely considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate — usurped the will of the voters by removing a twice-elected local official who disagreed with him politically. Warren had initiated police reforms unpopular with some local law enforcement officers, and in the past year signed two statements pledging not to use his office to “criminalize” health care, including prosecuting women who get abortions and people seeking gender-affirming medical treatments.

In announcing the suspension, DeSantis excoriated Warren for being a “woke” prosecutor more interested in social justice than in enforcing the law. He warned of a “pathogen” spreading in U.S. cities — progressive prosecutors trying to reduce incarceration rates they see as overly punitive and that disproportionately impact people of color. He said prosecutors like Warren have caused “catastrophic results” in other states.

“We are not going to let that get a foothold here in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said a news conference in Tampa, while across town Warren was being physically ejected from his office. The governor was flanked by more than a dozen officers who hailed the move to oust Warren.

The clash comes as political parties pay more attention to state attorney elections than they have in the past and as prosecutors around the country are now faced with a slate of new laws restricting or outright banning abortion care after the fall of Roe v. Wade. For Warren, who left a job as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to run for office in his home state, the suspension was the latest in a series of dust-ups with the governor. He said he was not planning to ignore the law, only that he planned to exercise prosecutorial discretion.

“My job is about anything I can do to make our city safer and our system more fair,” he said. “That is much broader in the terms of the spectrum of criminal justice.”

‘I’m doing the right thing’

The day he lost his job was supposed to be a day of triumph for Warren, one of the highlights of his six years in office.

Four years earlier, he had launched a Conviction Review Unit to examine innocence claims. One of those claims came from Robert DuBoise. He’d served 37 years behind bars after being convicted in the rape and murder of 19-year-old Barbara Grams in 1983. But prosecutors had built their case on problematic bite-mark evidence and a jailhouse informant. A fresh look at the crime found DNA evidence that instead linked two other men to the crime.

Not only did the new probe conclude that Abron Scott and Amos Earl Robinson were responsible for Grams’ death; further investigation also tied them to the rape and murder of Linda Lansen, 41, who was killed around the same time. Lansen’s case had gone cold for nearly four decades. Warren was going to announce that a grand jury had indicted the men in both murders.

He invited family members of the victims, as well as several local law enforcement officers who had helped solve the cases. He sent out a press release for media to join him at the state attorney’s building in Tampa. Instead, after his suspension, he held a briefing at a downtown office building.

“The governor’s political circus potentially jeopardized two three-year old cold case investigations into serial rapists and murderers from 39 years ago,” he said. “That was my focus. ... I was worried that they were going to disband the grand jury. In the back of my mind was the promise I made to those families, and that was my focus.”

Warren grew up in Gainesville, Fla., the son of a university professor turned real estate developer. After graduating from Columbia University law school, he served as a federal district court clerk in San Francisco. Later he went on to work as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice focusing on financial fraud.

He stunned Tampa in 2016 when he returned to Florida from D.C. to take on a longtime Republican prosecutor for the state attorney’s office in one of the state’s most populous counties. During the campaign, he promised to focus on violent crimes and send low-level offenders into diversion programs instead of jail.

“When I ran in 2016 I wanted to change the criminal justice system, to improve it, not to revolutionize it,” he said, sitting in the living room of his Tampa home on a recent morning.

He put that philosophy into action during the summer of 2020, when protests over the murder of George Floyd by police officers erupted across the country, including in Tampa. Warren declined to press charges against 67 people who had been arrested for unlawful assembly — angering local law enforcement officials.

“There were a lot of peaceful protests, and there was a night of violent rioting,” Warren said. “We prosecuted 150 people for felonies. We prosecuted the people who we had evidence were actually committing crimes. We didn’t prosecute the people where there was no evidence besides the fact that they were peacefully protesting. It was pretty simple.”

Warren has publicly clashed with DeSantis before. He criticized an “anti-riot” law that DeSantis signed in 2021 stiffening penalties for demonstrators in the aftermath of the 2020 protests, saying it “tears a couple of corners off the Constitution.” After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in June, Warren joined dozens of prosecutors from around the country in signing a pledge to “decline to use our offices’ resources to criminalize reproductive health decisions.”

A year earlier, he signed a similar statement regarding gender-affirming care.

Warren called the pledges “value statements” that addressed prosecutorial discretion, and not promises to ignore the law. Florida recently instituted a 15-week abortion ban, and while the state will soon deny Medicaid coverage for transgender-related surgeries and medication, there is no law forbidding such treatments.

“So if a doctor at Tampa General Hospital performs an abortion at 24 weeks and there’s a question of, ‘Is it 23 weeks and six days, or 24 weeks and one day,’ that’s a different case than a back-alley abortion performed at 35 weeks,” Warren said, explaining that he’d pursue charges in the latter. “That’s reckless and negligent.”

He said “there have been occasions where I’m getting yelled at from far left, and I’m getting yelled at by the far right. To me that demonstrates that I’m doing the right thing.”

‘Ruing the day’

Warren handily won his reelection 2020 — but not everyone was happy with his approach to the law.

In his executive order suspending Warren, DeSantis listed examples of what he called Warren’s “fundamentally flawed and lawless understanding of his duties.” One of those was Warren’s decision not prosecute people on bicycles who are stopped by police for resisting arrest without violence. A report by the U.S. Department of Justice after an investigation by the Tampa Bay Times found that 80 percent of the thousands of biking tickets issued by Tampa police were given to Black people, a practice local residents criticized as “biking while Black.”

“We need our prosecutor to prosecute crime — the same as we enforce crime,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told a local television station after Warren’s suspension.

DeSantis said he decided to suspend Warren after he ordered his staff to find any examples in Florida of prosecutors who “take it upon themselves” to decide which laws to enforce. Law enforcement officers and district attorneys routinely utilize prosecutorial discretion to decide which crimes to focus their attention on.

But DeSantis was touching on a growing angst over prosecutors seen as light on crime at a time when homicides have risen in many cities, including Tampa.

“We are going to make sure that our laws are enforced and that no individual prosecutor puts himself above the law,” DeSantis said. “And I can tell you, the states and the localities that have allowed this to happen, they are ruing the day.”

Alissa Marque Heydari, deputy director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College New York City, said there has been an uptick in state legislators and governors attacking prosecutors who are reform-minded. In San Francisco, former District Attorney Chesa Boudin lost a recall election after venture capitalists, doctors, lawyers, and estate developers raised millions to boot him from office.

“But law enforcement is local — it’s up to the community to prioritize how they want the laws enforced,” she said. “If Andrew Warren said he didn’t want to prosecute certain types of crimes and the community was upset about that, it was up to them to vote him out.”

‘Something Putin would do’

For DeSantis critics, Warren’s suspension is a troubling sign of abuse of power from a governor whose administration routinely employs hostile tactics to silence opponents. The suspension isn’t final until the state Senate approves it, but the Republican-majority chamber is all but certain to usher it through.

“This is something that Putin or Castro or Maduro would do,” said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, a Democrat who has represented parts of the Tampa Bay area in Congress for 15 years. “People in Hillsborough are outraged.”

Peter Bergerson, a political science professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, concurred, describing it as a decision with “heavy overtones of political, election-year issues.”

“It sounds like more of an ideological decision, rather than one that’s based on actual poor performance or fraud,” he said.

Others have sprung to the governor’s defense, including local law enforcement leaders, Republican colleagues in the state legislature and others who say Warren’s approach was ultimately problematic.

Joseph Cillo, a former defense attorney and an assistant professor of criminal justice at Saint Leo University in Tampa, said he likes Warren and respects his right to free speech. But he said DeSantis was doing his job and also sending a message by removing Warren from office.

“You can have discretion on individual cases. There’s always prosecutorial discretion,” Cillo said. “But when you come out and say, these are one or two statutes that I believe are unconstitutional, that’s an individual opinion. And to say, ‘I’m just not going to prosecute these crimes,’ that’s an omission under Florida law.”

The suspension — and what followed — offer a window into DeSantis’ approach to the law, were he to pursue federal office. He appointed Susan Lopez to fill Warren’s position, a longtime assistant state attorney the governor had recently named a county judge. Warren may have had no warning that he was about to be fired by the governor, but Lopez said the governor called her days earlier to offer her the job.

Lopez is a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative group that advocates for an “originalist interpretation” of the Constitution. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are also members.

The new top prosecutor reversed many of Warren’s policies in her first days in office, including his policy to cut down on bike-rider prosecutions.

Warren, for his part, has assembled a team of lawyers to figure out his next step. He published a video message three days after his suspension, saying “I refuse to let this man trample on your freedoms to speak your mind, to make your own health care decisions, and to have your vote count.”

As he strategizes on a way to get his job back, Warren said he’s been buoyed by support from voters and friends.

“I’ve heard from people who told me they didn’t vote for me, and they don’t know if they’ll ever vote for me, but they support me on this,” he said. “They recognize how wrong this is.” ‘ha’

 

[WiseGirl]

Anotjer educator here. Fuck him

 

[Audrey2]

43 minutes ago, WiseGirl said:

Anotjer educator here. Fuck him

 

I do have respect for the military and for its veterans. But being a veteran does not qualify you to teach children how to read. I feel livid anytime Republicans dismiss the field of Education by insisting that anyone can teach. My high school geometry teacher had taught college math and might have been successful at it but I didn't learn anything despite putting in a lot of effort because it was like I was sitting in class and she was speaking in ancient Phoenician. Sadly, the excellent geometry teacher that I do feel like I could have learned from was out that year on maternity leave.

I feel sorry for the other teachers at the schools of these veterans will be teaching at, who will be tasked with mentoring these veterans who need even more support than what first and second year teachers do. As teachers we enter the profession from a teacher prep program knowing multiple ways to teach the same subject material and multiple ways to reach students. We've honored these skills through student teaching. I can't imagine putting myself in a position where I would be in front of 25 to 30 kindergarteners with no previous preparation.

Edited August 15, 2022 by Audrey2

[GreyhoundFan]

This man really scares me:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

[Dandruff]

On 8/14/2022 at 8:40 PM, Audrey2 said:

I can't imagine putting myself in a position where I would be in front of 25 to 30 kindergarteners with no previous preparation.

I don't think kindergarteners should be put in that position either.

I believe veterans would likely have skills that might be appropriately applied to classroom management.

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

He can't even give a straight answer to a basic question:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Der Santis decided to take a page from Abbott’s ugly playbook. He loaded a plane with migrants in Texas and sent them to Martha’s Vineyard. His people lied to the migrants, telling them they were going to Boston. The five people on MV stepped up to help the migrants. One resident had this to say:

[GreyhoundFan]

Ooh, I hope this stunt does bite Der Santis: