Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith
@CarlosGSmith
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History-making lawmaker. š³ļøāš FL State Senator, District 17, He/him/Ć©l. Equality Florida Senior Policy Advisor. Jerickās husband. Personal account
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The legislature has taken us in a dangerous direction and turned our classrooms into political battlefields. Iām fighting back and running for Florida Senate to give our community HOPE that we can still elect people who care about helping people. Together we win in 2024.
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SEVENTY EIGHT. Thatās the number of verified child sex-trafficking victims who were groomed and recruited out of Ron DeSantisā state-run foster care in 2021. ZERO. Thatās how many were recruited from Drag shows. Guess whoās being investigated.
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The Governor told us on the site of Pulse nightclub, that he wouldnāt leave the LGBTQ community behind. He not only failed to follow thruā he betrayed us, vetoed funding for shooting survivors and endlessly attacked demonized us with impunity. Ron DeSantis is a two-faced fraud.
āWhen I tell people Iām going to do something, I follow through.ā - @RonDeSantis . Onward to the Great American Comeback! šŗšø.
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Approximately 9,000 transgender Floridians woke up today to find out they no longer have life-saving Medicaid coverage. DeSantis bypassed the legislature and weaponized state agencies against his own constituents for simply minding their own business. This is not freedom.
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Ron DeSantis just suspended a state attorney, who was twice elected by Floridians, because heās not willing to send women to prison for getting abortions. This administration is morphing into an authoritarian regime in plain sight. We can stop this. š³.
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Ron DeSantis has promised to ban pronouns from the military on DAY ONE as POTUS. š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£. Bro, this campaign is a joke. Culture wars are all this clown can do š¤”.
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UCF professors are renaming courses and removing phrases like āhuman rightsā, āsocial justiceā, āequityā and āequalā to avoid being targeted or tracked by the state. This is happening in 2023 in the United States under the new McCarthyism of Ron DeSantis.
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For the record, the State of Florida operates exactly ZERO COVID testing sites. #Desantis shut them all down in May since prevention isnāt really his thing. If he opened even a single testing site, it would be a huge improvement over their current effortā¦which is ZERO.
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Florida Republicans want to ban books. Me and my fellow Democrats want to ban assault weapons. Vote accordingly.
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The DeSantisā state government regime installed a puppet Board of Trustees at New College and invited a far-right commencement speaker for graduation. Things did not go well. š¤£
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This is NOT the place I call home. Itās not Orlando, itās not Florida. Itās a dystopian upside down world contrived out of an era of unchecked political extremism and overt bigotry. I refuse to be a bystander. We will not let hate win.
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.@JerickFL and I are joining thousands of gay men on social media to reclaim #ProudBoys from white supremacists and bigoted neo-nazis. Letās replace the hashtag with images of love, positivity, and true PRIDE! Your two favorite #ProudBoys are here standing by, ready to VOTE! š³ļøāšš³
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I canāt believe Iām writing this. A new FL bill will tell courts to SEIZE TRANS CHILDREN AWAY from their supportive parents if those parents provide or are āat riskā of providing them life-saving care. Parents would be charged with felonies + thrown in prison. This is fascist.
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My name is Carlos Guillermo Smith, Florida's first LGBTQ Latino lawmaker. For 4 years, I fought DeSantis while he attacked our freedoms. Now, the GOP is dumping tons of money into my opponent to try and defeat me. Please retweet and follow to help me win my re-election campaign!.
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JUST IN: After a 2-year battle, the DeSantis administration has agreed to settle my public records lawsuit against them for illegally hiding COVID health data while the Delta variant ripped thru Florida killing 23,000 people. We persisted. We prevailed. We held them accountable.
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TODAY: The Florida Senate will pass a near total abortion ban and debate transgender healthcare. TOMORROW: Theyāll extensively debate bills to regulate and censor drag queens. No time for property insurance. WE. NEED. A. NEW. LEGISLATURE.
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A group of local students just showed up to the Florida Capitol to protest the #dontsaygaybill. They sent a powerful message to the legislature by being here!. To LGBTQ youth, we stand with you, we see you, you matter and we get up and fight for you every single day! #SayGay š³ļøāš
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Hundreds of drag queens and allyās in the Florida Capitol chanting, āRON DESANTIS HAS GOT TO GO!ā š³ļøāšš š³ļøāā§ļø #DragDeSantis #TheShowsMustGoOn
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You read that right. Florida Republicans are so drunk with power, emboldened by Ron DeSantis' fascist tendencies, that they have filed legislation to ABOLISH the Florida Democratic Party. If you're not worried about how far Florida has fallen, then you are not paying attention.
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.@GovRonDeSantis refuses to issue a statewide mask order as #COVID19 cases surge & asymptomatic young people are spreading the virus. He insists he ācanāt controlā what young people do. Today, he signed a forced parental consent bill on abortions to CONTROL WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE DO.
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Instead of lowering housing costs or fixing Floridaās insurance crisis, Ron DeSantis obsessed over LGBTQ people and stopping "wokeness". We need a Governor that solves problems, not one who creates them. That Governor is @CharlieCrist.
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Florida GOP Representative Jeff Holcomb says the quiet part out loud on the House floor today. āOur terrorist enemies hate homosexuals MORE THAN WE DO.ā. Audible gasping in the chamber. And then thereās @RepSkidmoreās reaction. š²
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Thereās a lot of reasons Iām voting for @CharlieCrist, but none of them are more important than saving America from Ron DeSantis. š³šŗšø.
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Meanwhile in Florida, my assault weapons ban HB 455 gets no hearing for the 3rd year in a row after Pulse and Parkland happened RIGHT HERE IN THIS STATE!.
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The DeSantis regime is threatening TV stations with prosecution for running ads supporting abortion rights and Amendment 4. Florida is not a free state.
The DeSantis administration is now trying to intimidate television stations into taking down ads supporting Amendment 4 ā the constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would overturn the near-total abortion ban that Ron DeSantis signed into law last year.
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Today would be a great day for @GovRonDeSantis to condemn the real Nazis rallying in Florida with swastikas.
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HOW IT STARTED: We just want to protect womenās sports!. HOW ITāS GOING: The state will seize transgender children to imprison the parents who support them!. Floridaās rapid decent into fascism under Ron DeSantis should horrify every American.
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They banned ABORTION before they banned ASSAULT WEAPONS!?! š¤¦āāļø.
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I'm Carlos Guillermo Smith, Florida's first LGBTQ Latino lawmaker. The GOP is dumping tons of money into my opponent to try and defeat one of the most effective voices against their anti-LGBTQ agenda. Please retweet, follow, and help me get to 50k to amplify my message!.
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A community coalition of hundreds of immigrants, union workers, LGBTQ people, women, and allies marching at Lake Eola in Orlando to stand up for our collective freedoms and AGAINST Ron DeSantis! āšæāš¾āš½āš¼āš». āHey, hey! Ho, ho! Ron DeSantis has got to go!ā
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if Republicans flip this seat, Democrats may fall into a super minority in the Florida Legislature. I am running against a radical Republican who is ready to ban all abortion in our state. We can't let her win.
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Ron DeSantis talks a big game about sending federal dollars back to DC. Itās a lie. 35% of Floridaās 2023 state budget was federal money. The amount was $41,007,308,001. He didnāt balance s**t.
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Ron DeSantis' entire political brand is centered around his story of how he took on "woke" Disney and won! . The "corporate kingdom has come to an end", he bragged. Turns out, that story was a fairytale-- Ronnie lost and was just stunningly outmaneuvered by the Mouse. š§µ
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356 government employees of #ReedyCreek will lose their jobs when the district is abolished, 200 being first responders, all because one company #Disney had the gall to stand up for the LGBTQ community against #DeSantis. Iām disgusted by this proposal.
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DeSantis removed an elected official from office yesterday because they refused to commit to throwing women in prison for seeking abortions. That's what freedom and democracy looks like in Ron DeSantis' Florida.
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BREAKING: After refusing to release critical hospitalization data for months, @GovRonDeSantis finally caves to public pressure & reports nearly 7,000 patients CURRENTLY hospitalized w/COVID-19 in Florida. A Friday night news dump if Iāve ever seen it. š·.
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In Florida, we say GAY and we say TRANS.
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Watch Ron DeSantis angrily gaslight Floridians over Roberto Clemente kids' book pulled from school libraries thanks to book-banning laws HE SIGNED. š¤£. He also blames teacher's unions for book bans--unions play ZERO role in this process. ā¬ļø
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Nothing to see hereā¦.just the governor of one of Americaās largest states casually suggesting he will personally overthrow the results of our elections if his preferred candidates donāt win the popular win. This should be FRONT PAGE NEWS on every paper in Florida. šš¼.
.@GovRonDeSantis won't commit to let Democratic State Attorneys @AndrewWarrenFL, @MoniqueHWorrell stay in office if elected this November. Reporting by @AGGancarski. #FlaPol.
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Hereās the 2022 moment I FORCED a very sweaty Randy Fine to admit that his bill was targeted retaliation against Disney for opposing āDonāt Say Gayā. Now Disney is SUING Ron DeSantis and using these exact words against them. YOU. ARE. WELCOME. šš
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I just filed a lawsuit against the DeSantis administration for refusing to lawfully comply with my public records request for critical COVID-related public health data. Floridians deserve transparency and accountability and Iām not taking NO for an answer. My full statementšš¼
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Ron DeSantis issued $543 MILLION in tax refunds to the top 1% of Florida corporations in the middle of the pandemic for āreliefā. Be mad about that. Not the working families struggling to pay student loans who may finally be able to breathe.
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If Florida Democrats get cannabis legalization, abortion rights and paid family leave on the 2024 ballot, watch how quickly this state turns around.
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77% of Floridians OPPOSE permitless carry. Thatās why Ron DeSantis just quietly signed it into law hoping you wouldnāt notice. Now people can carry hidden, loaded guns in public crowds without any training, or criminal background check. FLORIDIANS. WILL. GET. KILLED.
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šØWARNING ALL AMERICANSšØ. Ron DeSantis is book-banning and indoctrinating Florida's youth into ignorance. and LYING about it.
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Despite what some may say, Florida is NOT a red state. It is a purple state, one that is completely up for grabs this November. Florida Democrats are ready to shift this state blue. #ShiftBlue.
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Wow! This is really awesome to see students at a school in East Orlando, Colonial HS, walkout in protest of the #dontsaygaybill!! Keep up the pressure yaāll!! š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø āšæāš¾āš½āš¼āš».
Yeah. we did that. Students at Colonial HS in Orlando, Florida today held a walkout in protest of HB 1557. @GovRonDeSantis: SAY GAY and veto the #DontSayGay bill! š³ļøāšš. You guys seein' this? @johannaocps @ChairJacobsOCPS @AnnaForFlorida @CarlosGSmith @LindaStewartFL
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Before murdering 49 people at Pulse, the shooter used credit cards to buy $26,000 in guns, ammo and body armor in 12 days. Card companies are now flagging similar suspicious activity to prevent mass shootings. Republicans want those companies PUNISHED.
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āLawmakers in Tallahassee voted to apply for Floridaās allocation ā which, at roughly $346 million, is the third-largest in the country, behind California and Texas.ā. āBut Gov. Ron DeSantis VETOED the measure as āwoke.āā. So, Floridians get NO relief.
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Florida will start the school year with a 9,000 teacher shortage, only 25% of 3rd graders reading proficient, lagging SAT scores + more. While schools suffer, DeSantis attacks LGBTQ kids and wants you to think your child's teacher is a groomer. We deserve better than this.
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Florida Republicans just announced legislation to enact permitless carry in Florida. Reporters asked for data and statistics to prove the claim that permitless carry policies help prevent violence. NONE were provided. They do not exist. Permitless carry INCREASES violence. š§µ.
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Ron DeSantis drew congressional maps for the sole purpose of diminishing Black voting power in Jacksonville. He wants schools to teach the āpersonal benefitsāof slavery. He censored AP African American studies. So yeah, he got BOOED in Duval today.
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@ScottforFlorida Florida hasn't received its fair share of federal transportation funding for decades because lying hypocrite @FLGovScott rejected it. That's wrong, & as your state representative I'll fight to make sure @ScottforFlorida isn't elected to the Senate where he'll screw us over again.
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Meet my friend @JJHoImesā a medically vulnerable teenager with disabilities. @GovRonDeSantis STOLE HIS FREEDOM to safely attend public schools without fear of catching a deadly virus. @SCPSInfo is afraid to mandate masks & stand up to the Guv. š·. Donāt JJās freedoms matter?.
@CarlosGSmith @GovRonDeSantis @richardcorcoran @JoeBiden š¢This ruling means Iām still stuck at home because the schoolboard members in @SCPSInfo donāt have the courage to stand up for students like me even tho I begged them to mandate masksš¢.I miss my friends and my teachers but Governor DeSantis doesnāt care if Iām being left out.š
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Welcome to Ron DeSantisā āfreeā Florida, where degrees are limited to regime-approved subjects, diversity outreach is abolished, tenure is effectively eliminated, and control of core curricula shifts to political appointees. HB 999 is the DEATH of academic freedom in higher ed.
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JUST IN: Ron DeSantis continues to lose his culture war on LGBTQ Floridians. WE. ARE. WINNING. āšæ āš¾āš½āš¼āš»
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The knee-jerk, vindictive, un-researched and reckless GOP plan to ABOLISH Disneyās #ReedyCreek district also appears to be ILLEGAL.
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Florida has become so anti-LGBTQ under Ron DeSantis that when this annual survey showed escalating suicidal ideation for LGBTQ youth, rather than help these kids, his administration immediately pulled the plug and began pressuring school districts to stop doing the survey. šš¼.
The @DuvalSchools says it will no longer conduct its Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The district has compiled data on youth activity since 2009. This week, the survey showed high numbers of Duval kids have contemplated suicide. The DOE has āstrongly urgedā them to stop the survey.
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TWO. That's the number of investigations Ron DeSantis launched into drag shows. ZERO. That's the number of investigations Ron DeSantis launched after SEVENTY-NINE verified child sex-trafficking victims were recruited out of his state-run foster program.
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The Chair of the Senate Committee hearing #DontSayGay just blocked me from being able to provide public comment on the bill AND on the @JeffreyBrandes amendment to improve it. The censorship of LGBTQ Floridians is unprecedented. We will not be silenced. š³ļøāš
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I'm one of only two Florida lawmakers to earn an F- from the NRA in recent history. Now I'm running in a toss-up seat where my opponent will use that badge of honor against me. I have NO REGRETS and will never back down from my pledge to honor the 49 taken at Pulse with action.
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Disney to Ron DeSantis: When we screwed you over, it was totally legal, publicly noticed and in broad day light. You were busy sending fundraising emails about us and didnāt notice. šš¼.
An unnamed Walt Disney World spokesperson responded by email with this statement. 4/
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Florida is now one of the least affordable states to live. Property insurance is soaring. Millions without healthcare. Instead of tackling these crises, Ron DeSantis Republicans are pushing new laws to BAN PRIDE FLAGS in govāt buildings. š¤£ . Why yaāll so obsessed with us? š³ļøāš
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Florida is NOT a red state and based on results in New York, Alaska, and Kansas, it is completely up for grabs this November. DeSantis barely won his election by .04% or 32,463 votes. If Florida Democrats turn out this November, we will shift this state blue. #ShiftBlue.
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Marco Rubio says protecting marriages like mine and Jerick's is a "stupid waste of time". @valdemings voted to codify our freedom to marry AND she celebrated the happiest moment in our lives alongside us. We will vote accordingly. š³ļøāš
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Seen in the Florida skies in Parkland yesterday! #SayGay š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļøāļøāļø
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Florida voters are rejecting Ron DeSantisā extreme agenda and just flipped a red house seat to BLUE! . Congratulations Representative Tom Keen, who focused on real issues (like lowering property insurance) to secure the win!. Florida Democrats are BAAAACK!!! š
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.@EducationFL just announced they're banning dozens of math textbooks they claim "indoctrinate" students with CRT. They won't tell us what they are or what they say b/c itās a lie. #DeSantis has turned our classrooms into political battlefields and this is just the beginning. šš¼
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The GOP Florida legislature is now compiling a list of names and titles of university educators and staff who do work related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Ron DeSantis wants them rooted out of higher education. That's how things are going in āfreeā Florida. šš¼
Florida House Republicans are using fear and intimidation to abolish Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs from higher education. University Presidents will be afraid to speak out and possibly lose funding or worse. This is the new McCarthyism of Ron DeSantis.šš¼
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Florida public schools were defunded $2.5 BILLION this year to finance the purchase of lavish perks and private school tuition for wealthy families. Unaccountable school vouchers are an multi-billion dollar disaster and taxpayers are footing the bill.
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There is no such thing as "constitutional" carry. PERMITLESS CARRY means allowing people who have never passed a background check or fired a gun in their lives to carry hidden, loaded guns in public crowds. and it will cost lives.
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Love wins. Ron Loses. š³ļøāš
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DEVASTATING: DeSantis just vetoed Cultural & Museum and facility grants that funded 577 arts programs and 33 facilities across Florida. These funds would have secured even more matching dollars for exponential rate of return. This is insane and never happened in modern history.
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Every MILLIONAIRE and BILLIONAIRE in the state will soon qualify to have their kids private school tuition paid for by taxpayers thanks to HB 1. No rules or regulations. This will cost Floridians billions while schools are left defunded and millions are without healthcare.
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Randy Fine: I REJECT that this bill abolishing #ReedyCreek is about targeting one company!. 1 HOUR LATERā¦. Randy Fine: You got me. This bill DOES target one companyā #Disney!
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Thank you President @JoeBiden AGAIN for passing the American Rescue Plan (opposed by every Republican) and sending Florida $10.2 BILLION so that we could give teachers and first responders $1,000 bonus checks!!!!!! šššš.
Schools in Florida are open, and we're saying thank you to our hard-working teachers in the classroom by giving them $1,000 bonuses and raises. #180Days #OpenSchools . Watch live:
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Ron DeSantis refused to fine a single hotel after finding 14,279 violations of anti-human trafficking laws, even though 377 verified sex trafficking victims were Florida children. Instead, @FloridaDBPR is aggressively and publicly threatening businesses for hosting drag shows.
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Proud to walkout with @UCF students today to protest Ron DeSantis hostile right-wing takeover of higher education and to #standforfreedom! š£. Young people are organizing to protect academic freedom, diversity programs (DEI), and LGBTQ studentsā all under attack in Florida.
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Dear Florida voters: Your vote is a SUPER vote, simply because of where you live. It has more weight than in California or Alabama because we aren't blue. We aren't red. We're a swing state where winner takes all in the electoral college. You've got power--use it. Go vote. š³.
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Ron DeSantis has promised to pass permitless, untrained carry in Florida which will cost lives. We can stop this by defeating him and denying the GOP a supermajority in the Legislature. Those efforts start in the battleground district I'm running to defend.
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This year, Florida Democrats are running our strongest coordinated campaign in history, meant to shift Florida blue. We are ready and energized to elect Democrats up and down the ballot this November.
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I canāt believe theyāre actually doing it. Florida House Republicans are moving a DeSantis-backed bill forward to LOWER the minimum age to purchase AR-15s from 21 to 18-years-old. Things arenāt any better for Floridians since Ronās campaign collapsedā theyāre getting worse.
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Ron DeSantis is always for the current thing. No core values or conviction. In 2020, his administration directed state universities to expand Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. Now he wants to ABOLISH DEI in higher ed and says itās āwoke indoctrinationā.
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It has come to this. In Florida, you have to SUE @GovRonDeSantis in order to obtain vital public health data. That's how hard he's working to hide information and to mislead Floridians during the greatest crisis our state has ever faced. š·
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Orlando and Tampa represent two of the largest and bluest population centers in Florida. Since Ron DeSantis has removed BOTH of their duly elected state prosecutors, is his regime just going to be deciding our elections moving forward?.
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šØ JUST IN: Florida Republicans introduced a late-filed amendment to expand their bill censoring drag shows to include those at city pride parades. They're now using intimidation and threats of misdemeanor charges to scare LGBTQ-friendly cities out of hosting drag altogether.
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The only way to stop Florida from completely banning abortion is by electing a Democratic Legislature. I am running in the tightest House race in the state, and Florida Republicans will spend big money to try to defeat me. I won't let them win.
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As a gay man, I know what itās like to have the religious right attack my sexual freedoms and push their beliefs onto me and my family. The Republican Party of Florida is coming for our rights, and the only way to combat them is by VOTING.
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This is not @TheOnion. The Florida House GOP supermajority really passed HB 1543 lowering the age to buy AR-15s to 18. Arming teenagers with assault weapons and undoing the progress we made after Parkland was a Republican priority this session. WE. NEED. A. NEW. LEGISLATURE.
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Ron DeSantis should be investigating why young Florida girls are more likely to be SEX TRAFFICKED when they enter HIS state-run foster care. Heās not. Instead, heās investigating Disney for having the temerity to stand up for LGBTQ Floridians.
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.@FLGovScott, the guy who oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history wants us to know that he hates *fraud*.
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Florida Republicans could have implemented reforms to stabilize the property insurance market and lower costs. Instead, they banned abortions and passed Don't Say Gay. As Hurricane Ian approaches, how will DeSantis protect homeowners whose policies were dropped on his watch?.
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As Floridaās first LGBTQ Latino lawmaker, Iām one of the only queer voices on the frontlines fighting against DeSantis bigoted agenda. Republicans are trying to flip this seat and become a supermajority to take even more of our rights and freedoms. RT + follow to get us to 55K!.
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šØ WOW. Theyāre actually doing it. Republicans have introduced legislation to eliminate vote-by-mail in Florida as we know it for nearly everyone, with narrow exceptions like for people with disabilities and folks living overseas. This level of voter suppression is CRIMINAL.
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When gas prices were at an all time high in Florida, Ron DeSantis decided to delay gas tax relief until October, one month before the election. Meanwhile, Floridians suffered for months with no help. Just another example of him putting politics ahead of people.
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LOVED this. Biden didnāt event mention Trump in his speech because heās already been cancelled.
Biden: "We both know tensions are high. They can be high after a tough election. But remember, we have to remain calm, patient. Let the process work out as we count all the votes. your vote will be counted. I do not care how hard people try to stop it. I will not let it happen"
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Embracing Trumpās big election lie doesnāt make you a patriot. It makes you a partisan traitor to our republic.
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DeSantis is a LOSER who ran Florida into the ground. He turned classrooms into political battlefields handing them over to book banning extremists and slavery apologists. He relentlessly attacked LGBTQ people and made Florida synonymous with bigotry. Itās time we #TakeBackFL.
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