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Jason Garcia
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Investigative reporter covering corporate influence in Florida. Publisher of Seeking Rents. [email protected].
- The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
- One thing is quickly becoming clear about “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigrant detention camp that the state of Florida just opened in the middle of the Everglades: The politicians running the place are bigger lawbreakers than many of the immigrants they’re locking up. 🧵...
- Twenty-four hours after appearing with Elon Musk to announce his campaign for president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a bill into law that will shield Musk's SpaceX and other private space companies from negligence lawsuits after an explosion or a crash.
- Ron DeSantis appears to have taken nearly $4 million that was supposed to be spent combating the opioid crisis – and burned the money instead on advertising against ballot measures that would legalize marijuana and overturn a statewide abortion ban. 🧵...
- The claim that going after Disney proves that you can't be bought by campaign contributions -- when you only went after Disney after it stopped giving you campaign contributions -- is really quite funny.
- So: Right before Ron DeSantis runs for president, the Florida Legislature is: 1) Changing the law so he doesn’t have to resign as governor 2) Hiding his travel records from public disclosure 3) Giving him $1 million to retain key staffers w/raises “and other incidentals”
- Whoa: A week before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended state attorney Andrew Warren, DeSantis' staff prepared an internal memo weighing the "benefits" and "drawbacks" of the move. One of the benefits? "A leftist prosecutor is removed from a position of power."
- March 2021: Disney gives Ron DeSantis $50,000 April 2021: DeSantis helps Disney get a legislative carveout to his tech "censorship" bill March 2022: Disney halts campaign contributions in Florida April 2022: DeSantis tells the Florida Legislature to take away Disney's carveout
- This feels like the real reason some Florida politicians suddenly want to cancel the SAT: " Just over 190,000 Florida high schoolers took the test in 2022, representing 87% of possible students. Its average score was among the lowest 10 in the nation."
- Replying to @Jason_GarciaThe DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
- A quote from the Financial Times: "[Florida] lawmakers had ample warning about the need to act during the legislative session earlier this year, but they displayed more interest in waging culture-war battles than in helping Floridians to secure their lives and their property."
- Billionaire Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross -- who wants Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign a nearly $6-million-a-year tax break for a Formula One race at Ross' Hard Rock Stadium -- gave $100,000 to DeSantis last week.
- A top aide to Ron DeSantis just admitted that the administration is breaking the law by hiding contracts connected to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention facility it built in the middle of the Florida Everglades. 🧵...
