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In It to Win It

(9,619 posts)
Wed Jan 4, 2023, 09:12 PM Jan 2023

Hialeah doesn't owe its 'freedom' to Gov. DeSantis. Neither does the rest of Florida (Opinion)

Miami Herald via Yahoo News

The flood-prone, working-class “streets of Hialeah” made it into Gov. Ron DeSantis’ inauguration speech Tuesday as he evoked swaths of the Florida we know and (mostly) love.

“From the Space Coast to the Suncoast, from St. Johns to St. Lucie, from the streets of Hialeah to the speedway in Daytona, from the Okeechobee all the way up to Micanopy,” DeSantis began, “freedom lives here in our great Sunshine State of Florida!”

The Hialeah contingent among the thousands at the Capitol steps witnessing the launch of DeSantis’ second term didn’t disappoint.

At the mention of Miami-Dade County’s second-largest city — and the most Cuban, after Havana — they hollered and applauded louder than anyone else. Political points well-scored. This is the kind of high-profile, public recognition that shapes party reputation and garners votes, on and off election cycles.

People remember flattery.

But in the real world, DeSantis’ words amount to little more than demagoguery.
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Hialeah doesn't owe its 'freedom' to Gov. DeSantis. Neither does the rest of Florida (Opinion) (Original Post) In It to Win It Jan 2023 OP
I worry about this language he's using.. Deuxcents Jan 2023 #1
Did he spare a second to address the Floridians who lost loved ones during COVID? Timeflyer Jan 2023 #2
Lets see how he does with the Cuban Migrants that landed in Florida this week mitch96 Jan 2023 #3

Deuxcents

(19,740 posts)
1. I worry about this language he's using..
Wed Jan 4, 2023, 09:51 PM
Jan 2023

He caters to the crowd.. when I was a kid, no one cared about Hialeah but it became a proud community anyway. Now that it has thrived, he’s suddenly on the scene.

Timeflyer

(2,637 posts)
2. Did he spare a second to address the Floridians who lost loved ones during COVID?
Thu Jan 5, 2023, 09:46 AM
Jan 2023

Or did he just brag about himself, and swear vengeance on the libs? Loathe the creep, couldn't listen.

mitch96

(14,658 posts)
3. Lets see how he does with the Cuban Migrants that landed in Florida this week
Thu Jan 5, 2023, 03:59 PM
Jan 2023

Send them up north? I doubt it.. That would kill his whole Cuban voting block in Miami. Mexican/Central Americans? 👎 Cuban's ?👍
From the AP:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who used state tax dollars to fly Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Massachusetts to protest Biden’s immigration policies, has not said anything this week about the Keys situation. His press office did not respond to email requests for comment Wednesday and Thursday.

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