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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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Dec 8, 2021

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

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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 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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Nov 2, 2021

When you look at the Biden, the Brandon administration in terms of...

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Nov 2, 2021

Well, I think people are rebelling against what the Democratic Party stands for nowadays.

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Oct 29, 2021

They’re a heck of a lot of students and a heck of a lot of families throughout the state of Florida that are better off today.

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Oct 27, 2021

These school districts are saying no, you have to wear a mask even if your parent doesn’t want that. If these entities are going to violate state law and take away parents’ rights, obviously there are, you know, it’s the way it works…

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Oct 24, 2021

It's about a morale issue trying to sort of take officers from the cities, saying it's not a mandate issue.

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Oct 24, 2021

In Florida, our policy is very clear. We`re going to have a special session, and we`re going to say, nobody should lose their job based off these injections.

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Oct 24, 2021

We`re actually actively working to recruit out-of-state law enforcement, because we do have needs in our police and our sheriff`s departments.

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Sep 29, 2021

You guys, look what`s going on in Australia right now. You know, they`re forcing after a year and a half, they`re still enforcing lockdowns by the military and that`s not a free country. It`s not a free country at all.

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Sep 29, 2021

If you guys look what`s going on in Australia right now, you know, they`re enforcing -- after a year and a half, they`re still enforcing lockdowns by the military.

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Sep 21, 2021

Why don't you do your job? Why don't you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you.

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Sep 16, 2021

The fight about making sure Florida is not shortchanged on these monoclonals, that`s going to be front and center for us. We want to make sure that any Floridian that needs this is able to get it, so we`re going to fight like hell to make…

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Sep 15, 2021

He`s built his brand, saying he just won a federal case, an appeal, in which parents of disabled kids were suing, saying, your mask mandate ban could put our kids at risk of dying, and he said, so what?

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Sep 15, 2021

He’s built his brand, saying he just won a federal case, an appeal, in which parents of disabled kids were suing, saying, your mask mandate ban could put our kids at risk of dying, and he said, so what?

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Sep 13, 2021

If government agency in the state of Florida forces a vaccine as a condition to employment that violates Florida law and you will face -- and you will face a $5,000 fine for every single violation.

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Sep 13, 2021

Thousands and thousands of people could be losing their jobs not because they haven’t performed well, in fact many of them performed heroically, but simply because of a very intrusive and I think illegal policy.

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Sep 12, 2021

If a government agency in the state of Florida forces a vaccine as a condition to employment, that violates Florida law, and you will face a $5,000 fine for every single violation. This is all political. It's all about using government and…

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