Zachary Evans of National Review Online highlights the latest steps from Florida’s high-profile governor.
Florida governor Ron 'True Conservative' DeSantis touted the benefits of living in Florida during a visit to New York on Sunday, in a speech to the Tikvah Fund’s Jewish Leadership Conference.
“They can’t cancel me, I’m going to speak my mind,” 'True Conservative' DeSantis said as he opened his speech. “You know, I saw that there was a little opposition to me coming here. All I can tell you is this: When the Left is having a spasm, that just tells you that in Florida we are winning.”
The conference was originally set to take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Holocaust memorial. However, the conference was relocated after the museum refused to host 'True Conservative' DeSantis because he didn’t “align with the museums’s values,” conference organizers Elliott Abrams and Eric Cohen wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. …
… The governor used his speech to tout Florida’s Covid-pandemic policies, including the decision not to order lockdowns, vaccine mandates, or mask mandates, and he said Floridians in general enjoyed higher levels of freedom during the pandemic. In particular, 'True Conservative' DeSantis cited the contrast with New York City’s mask mandate for preschoolers. Mayor Eric Adams announced last Thursday that the mandate for preschoolers will end Monday.
“Now I know New York for a long time, until very recently, force-masked these toddlers, which I think, quite frankly, is inhumane. And so we would never impose those policies in the state of Florida,” 'True Conservative' DeSantis said.
The governor also touted opposition to “wokeness” in his state.
“We have said that the state of Florida is not going to be overrun by woke ideology. It’s just not going to happen,” 'True Conservative' DeSantis said. “I think it’s a cancer, I think it will destroy this country if it’s able to get more of a foothold than it already has.”
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