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Chairman's
Message
Huge Election
Day
Republicans thump
Democrats in Florida and nationwide
Voters in Florida and across the nation soundly
rejected the freedom-stealing, open-border,
America-last agenda of the Democrats and the Biden administration
during Tuesday’s off-year elections. Governor DeSantis described
Tuesday as a wave building for 2022 that will be bigger than
2010.
Republicans in Florida won several key municipal races across
the state, including multiple mayoral contests such as Steve Bovo in
Hialeah.
In Virginia, a blue state that went for Biden by 10 points
just one year ago, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated long-time
Democrat establishment figure Terry McCauliffe for governor.
Republicans swept all the statewide races in Virginia and flipped the
state house. And the Republican challenger shockingly came within a
whisker of winning the governor’s race in New Jersey, which went for
Biden by 16 points.
Republicans also flipped seats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New
York, Texas and New Hampshire.
It was a very good night and portends well for slamming the
door on the Democrats’ radical agenda.
Election integrity
set for the 2022 Legislative Session
Governor DeSantis announced a new legislative
proposal Wednesday for the 2022 session that
begins in January that will further strengthen Florida’s election
integrity.
“We are excited to say that next legislative session we are
proposing another package of election integrity reforms that will make
Florida the number one state for elections,” Governor DeSantis said.
“I am excited that with this legislation, our state will be able to
enforce election violations, combat voter fraud and make sure
violators are held accountable. If potential violators know they will
be held accountable, they will be much less likely to engage in
improper conduct in the first place.”
Governor DeSantis called on the Legislature to take four
additional steps to safeguard our elections:
- Establish an Office of Election Crimes and Security within
the Department of State to investigate election crimes and
fraud;
- Elevate the crime of ballot harvesting to a third-degree
felony, recognizing that this offense is a serious attack on
democracy;
- Require timelines for supervisors of elections to clean the
voter rolls of ineligible voters; and
- Prohibit unsecure drop box locations in Florida.
Read more here: https://www.flgov.com/2021/11/03/governor-ron-desantis-announces-legislative-proposal-to-protect-floridas-election-integrity/
Watch the Governor’s press conference
here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1614182528931181
“A recession is when your
neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours; a
recovery is when Dr. Fauci loses his.” - Governor
DeSantis
Special Session
Update:
Protections against vaccine status
discrimination
Governor DeSantis announced that the Special Session
to provide protections for Floridians who could
lose their jobs due to vaccine mandates will begin on November 15,
2021, and go no later than November 19, 2021.
“Your right to earn a living should not be contingent upon
COVID shots,” Governor DeSantis said. “We have somehow gone from 15
days to slow the spread to 3 jabs to keep your job. In Florida, we
believe that the decision whether or not to get a COVID shot is a
choice based on individual circumstances, so we are litigating against
the Biden Administration and will be passing legislation in this
Special Session to protect Florida jobs and protect parents’ rights
when it comes to masking and quarantines.”
He added: “The health, education, and wellbeing of our
children are primarily the responsibility of parents. As long as I am
Governor, parents in Florida will play a strong role in determining
what their kids are learning and how they’re treated in
school.”
Here are some of the elements Governor DeSantis is calling on
the Legislature to consider in the Special Session:
- Protect employees against unfair discrimination on the basis
of COVID-19 vaccination status and ensure robust enforcement for this
protection;
- Ensure that educational institutions and government entities
are prohibited from unfairly discriminating against employees,
students, and residents on the basis of COVID-19 vaccination
status;
- Clarify that the Parents’ Bill of Rights, Chapter 1014,
Florida Statutes, vests the decision on masking with parents, not
government entities, and that schools must comply with Department of
Health rules that govern student health, including rules that ensure
healthy students can remain in school;
- Repeal the authority for the State Health Officer to order
forced injections or vaccinations under Section 381.00315, Florida
Statutes, originally enacted in 2002; and
Read more here: https://www.flgov.com/2021/10/29/governor-ron-desantis-announces-date-of-special-session-to-protect-florida-jobs/
Florida
Less than a week after Governor DeSantis announced
Florida is suing the Biden Administration for
unlawfully requiring mandatory injections for federal contractors, the
Biden Administration quietly updated its guidance.
“The backtracking by the Biden administration demonstrates
that Florida has been right to stand up for people’s jobs and against
federal overreach,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “We are continuing to
fight for Floridians. This edict from the Biden Administration is
creating chaos for both workers and businesses, as well as putting
livelihoods at risk. In Florida, your right to earn a living should
not be contingent upon COVID shots. Federal contractors in Florida
should suspend their threats of termination over the Biden
mandate.”
Governor DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody announced
the lawsuit last week against the Biden Administration’s order
requiring employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated by
December 8, making Florida the first state to bring a comprehensive
legal action against the federal contractor vaccine mandate. The
lawsuit seeks an immediate end to the unlawful requirement that
federal contractors ensure that all employees have received a mandated
injection. The lawsuit can be found here.
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Read more here: https://www.flgov.com/2021/11/02/governor-ron-desantis-continues-fight-against-federal-contractor-mandates-following-biden-backpedaling/
Governor DeSantis announced $6 million for the City
of Tavares to build a regional workforce
training and innovation center in partnership with Lake Technical
College. While Lake Technical College currently can enroll 16 students
in its programs for diesel systems technology, automotive services,
and automotive collision, this new center will allow the college to
triple its enrollment to 48 students. This will help Florida meet the
demand of more than 67,000 new openings in these occupations over the
next eight years.
Governor DeSantis has been focused on making Florida the best
state in the nation for workforce education by 2030. This year,
Governor DeSantis has awarded more than $20 million for workforce
training initiatives in Florida. While these are creating immediate
jobs, they are also creating skilled workers that are combating the
nation’s supply chain crisis.
“In Florida, we are stepping up in the midst of the nation’s
supply chain woes. Our ports are open and have capacity, we are
standing up for businesses, and we are continuing to support the
supply chain by training skilled workers across our state,” Governor
DeSantis said.
Read more here: https://www.flgov.com/2021/10/29/governor-ron-desantis-announces-6-million-award-for-workforce-education-programs-at-lake-technical-college-through-the-florida-job-growth-grant-fund/
Washington,
D.C.
Newsmax reported Senator Marco Rubio’s stinging
denunciation of the Biden Administration.
“Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, ridiculed the deviations
between then-candidate and now-President Joe Biden, explaining to the
National Conservatism Conference on Monday that the reasons for the
difference are – if expressed during the campaign – he would not have
been elected.
“‘I think it's telling that the agenda promoted by the
candidate Joe Biden is very different from the one that's being pushed
by President Joe Biden,’” Rubio said via a livestream video conference
to the three-day gathering in Orlando, Florida.
“‘Candidate Joe Biden, for example, promised a return of
competency and professionalism; President Joe Biden delivered chaos:
Historic calamity on the southern border, humiliating and deadly
debacle in Afghanistan, stranded cargo ships off the coast of
California, and the skyrocketing prices of literally
everything.’”
“Rubio was slated to join in person but was affected by
the ongoing American Airlines flight cancellations.
“He began declaring Biden is governing differently than
he campaigned because he knew from the outset his actual ideas were
unpopular with the majority of ordinary Americans – as opposed to
those managing society on a day-to-day basis.
“‘The problem is they have power beyond the numbers,’”
Rubio said. “‘They happen to be the people who run our schools and our
universities, our tech companies, our large corporations, meetings,
boards, the entertainment industry; they are the most generous donors
and enthusiastic activists in one of our two major political
parties.’”
Read more here: https://www.newsmax.com/us/conservative-conference-florida-candidate/2021/11/01/id/1042863/
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Seeing the shocking results in Tuesday’s elections in
Virginia, New Jersey, Florida and elsewhere, Senator Marco
Rubio tweeted this truism:
“364 days a year a powerful minority tells everyone what they
are allowed to believe, do and say. And Election Day is the day the
normal majority tells them they are crazy.”
ICYMI
The New York Post recently published a column titled:
The country needs a dose of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
to battle COVID-19
“Florida has the lowest COVID-19 case rate in the
country. They did it without vaccine mandates, without mask mandates
in school and with no restrictions on businesses. Life simply went on.
“Over the summer, when Florida was experiencing a spike
in cases, the media was wall-to-wall news about the numbers.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was a frequent target for the blame. His
sensible moves, such as not forcing low-risk kids to wear masks, was
treated as akin to murder by the media.
“In August, President Biden criticized DeSantis, although
not by name, saying: “Some state officials are passing laws that
forbid people from doing the right thing. I say to the governors,
please help. If you’re not going to help, get out of the way of the
people that are trying to do the right thing.”
“But what DeSantis understood is that there is no
absolute “right thing” where COVID-19 is concerned, that we are living
in an endemic (no longer a pandemic thanks to vaccines) and that there
is very little political action that can be implemented to stop it. At
the time of Florida’s spike, the state had an above-average
vaccination rate when compared with the rest of the country. They
weren’t doing anything differently than places with lower case rates,
they were simply at the peak of their seasonal spike.
“Florida is doing better in per-capita cases and deaths
from COVID than states that put in universal mask mandates and
lockdowns. But you won’t hear that from the media. Now that DeSantis’
strategy has worked, they have quietly moved on without acknowledging
their predictions of doom were wrong.
“It’s a lesson that we need to quickly learn. Encouraging
vaccination is important, but ultimately COVID will be something we
need to handle with less hysteria going forward, and DeSantis has been
a model for that.”
Read the entire column here: https://nypost.com/2021/10/28/florida-gov-ron-desantis-has-shown-how-to-handle-covid-19/
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