DeSantis gets millions in taxpayer money to fight lawsuits over hard-right policies

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TALLAHASSEE ? Gov. Ron DeSantis has been fortified with millions of dollars in taxpayer money for legal fights stemming from his polarizing legislative agenda, with the scene now shifting from the Capitol to the courthouse.

Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate tucked an unprecedented almost $16 million into the state’s $117 billion budget for litigation costs to defend policies DeSantis just advanced or to cover battles already underway, like his yearlong clash with the Walt Disney Company.

The state’s largest teachers union, the Florida Education Association, filed the first lawsuit from the recently completed 2023 legislative session Wednesday, a day after DeSantis signed into law a bill imposing new restrictions on public employee labor unions, mostly targeting those allied with Democrats.

FEA and other unions claim in their federal lawsuit that the governor is violating their free speech, among other constitutional rights.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-gets-millions-taxpayer-money-200121699.html

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1. This is bullshit and I, as a taxpayer, am pissed.

I did not vote for this and we somehow gotta take this state back to some sanity.

[Geechie]

2. Ditto. If only we had a recall provision

for state officials in Florida. It requires the Senate to suspend him, and hell will freeze over before that happens.

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3. They are a rubber stamp for the governor

Just how did that happen.. gerrymandering and bit by bit he has control.

[onethatcares]

4. it wasn't just gerrymandering.

it was the slow elections of the entire rightwing super majority legislature and it all started with jeb bush being elected gov.

I guess giving large raises to Corcoran and cushy jobs to those that agree with desatan helps him a lot .

FFS look at who we have as senators and explain how both of them got elected