Minority and activist groups say Florida is ‘canary in the coalmine’ and warn rights will be trampled on if governor becomes president
recently signed into law, and a mandate to pursue nationwide the same minority targets he went after in Tallahassee.
“He will empower his rightwing base to terrorize you in public restrooms and yes, he will also punish your business if you so much as whisper your disagreement into your pillow if we do not stop him. “[DeSantis’s] campaign against wokeness has awakened the people, and is awakening the people,” said Leon Russell, chair of the NAACP, who lives in Tampa.
“DeSantis and his rubber-stamp, subservient legislature have overplayed their hand. They’re feeling invincible and invulnerable. Voters are going to show him that that’s not the case and[when a Democrat upset a DeSantis-backed Republican to win the mayoral race] was a taste of that.
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