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Ron DeSantis

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Ron DeSantis is an American politician currently serving as the Governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he has been in office since January 2019. DeSantis previously served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018. His tenure as governor has been marked by a focus on conservative policies, including education reform, environmental issues, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. DeSantis has gained national attention for his stances on various issues, including his support for the Trump Presidential Library in Miami and his administration's initiatives on wildlife management.

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Jan 10, 2022

What we’re going to be doing in this upcoming legislative session, we’re going to give parents the ability to go in and get legal relief if they’re not following our state standards with respect to history and government.

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Jan 10, 2022

We're not going to let political operatives go and get satchels of votes and dump them in some drop box.

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Jan 10, 2022

What we`re going to be doing in this upcoming legislative session, we`re going to give parents the ability to go in and get legal relief if they`re not following our state standards with respect to history and government.

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Jan 7, 2022

Having a stockpile was the right thing to do. I mean, if we had done the opposite, we would have run out and then had to order as people had done it.

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Jan 6, 2022

I think it`s going to end up being just a politicized Charlie Foxtrot today.

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Jan 5, 2022

If you`re somebody who is a very low risk, no health problems, no symptoms, just testing over and over again is not really clinically proven to be very much of a value.

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Jan 4, 2022

You do have people when the kind of the hysteria gets going, you`ll have certain people that will go out and will just get tested all the time at some of these sites, and that`s not a good use of resources.

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Jan 3, 2022

You can’t let any type of hysteria undercut the normal functioning of society.

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Dec 20, 2021

So, I`ve done whatever I did the normal shot. And you know, that at the end of the day is people`s individual decisions about what they want to do.

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Dec 19, 2021

So, I have done whatever I did, the normal shot. And that, at the end of the day, is people`s individual decisions about what they want to do.

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Dec 16, 2021

Ron DeSantis is trying to pass something called the Stop WOKE Act. They’re trying to get rid of language.

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Dec 16, 2021

There`s a lot of other nonsense in that bill, which I`m not surprised at, as someone who did serve in the Congress, but there`s no doubt states like Florida, who did it right, are going to come up with the short end of the stick, against…

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Dec 15, 2021

You think about what MLK stood for. He said he didn’t want people judged on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.

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Dec 8, 2021

It’s fascism happening before our eyes.

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Dec 8, 2021

This war on academic freedom is not dissimilar to the war on science, the war on truth, Joy, this positively Orwellian idea that we cannot talk about what is before our eyes.

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Dec 8, 2021

Don’t criticize. Don’t say anything untoward. Don’t make the dear leader look bad, because, if you do, we will pull your funding, and we will pull your job, and, in the future, we may do worse.

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Dec 8, 2021

Ron DeSantis has made it very clear that he does not want COVID to be real, or that he just doesn’t believe it’s real, or he thinks it’s just like a flu and you can just have natural immunity to it.

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Dec 8, 2021

This is an autocrat acting in the manner of an autocrat.

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Dec 3, 2021

the strange authoritarian world of Ron DeSantis, deploying his own paramilitary force and issuing confidential executive orders.

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Dec 3, 2021

We also want to make sure that we have the flexibility and the ability needed to respond to events in our state in the most effective way possible. And some of that will require us to be able to have access and be able to use support in…

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Dec 2, 2021

That`s who`s the surgeon general of Florida right now, thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis.

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Nov 24, 2021

COVID vaccines are not preventing infection. It`s just not.

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Nov 10, 2021

I heard some stuff, some weird stuff from the secretary of transportation, trying to make this about social issues. And, to me, a road is a road.

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Nov 4, 2021

We are going to create a separate office at the state level solely dedicated to investigating and prosecuting election crimes in the state of Florida.

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Nov 3, 2021

Here it is. This is 500 pages of government of bureaucracy, a government that is being run by executive edict. Florida is going to respond and we will combat the OSHA rule.

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