Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races

Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races

The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has launched a political action committee that is targeting popular ballot amendments on abortion access and marijuana legalization that will be voted on in November.

The group, known as the Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May, Politico first reported. The committee is chaired by James Uthmeier, DeSantis’s chief of staff who was previously the Republican’s campaign manager during his unsuccessful presidential primary run.

In addition to targeting ballot initiatives, the committee will get involved in school board races, Politico reported, citing an individual who is familiar with the group’s plans.

Florida Republicans have attempted to maximize their political control of local school boards, especially amid book bans and far-right education laws banning discussions of race and sexual identity being passed in the state, WUFT reported.

    • P1nkman@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      This just in: DeSantis is changing the official words prisons and jails to Freedom Centers. Their slogan is “Where Freedom meets people”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    24·
    6 months ago

    As we all know, legal weed is super unpopular and every ballot initiative to legalize it fails because of that and Republicans never have to do any sort of legal tricks to cancel that out, so this will work for sure.

  • nnullzz@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 months ago

    Let’s see the mental gymnastics on this one, because I know quite a few hardcore republicans that loooove themselves some weed.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      Let’s see the mental gymnastics on this one, because I know quite a few hardcore republicans that loooove themselves some weed.

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit

      So those hardcore week smoking republicans want to be in the first group, and want everyone else to be in the second. If weed was legal it would collapse both into a single group. Republicans don’t want that.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    Its nice to know that rule about republican names holds true. If it has freedom in its name. It is trying to take freedoms away from someone they don’t like.

  • Bell@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    A small man screaming “I’m still relevant!” as the doors begin to close on him

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
    734·
    6 months ago

    women’s rights and cannabis are shunned by both parties

    democrats chose a catholic who is on record stating he lives by the good Catholic book which includes no contraception and a prosecutor who has used Biden’s laws and policies from his time as a career politician to lock away cannabis users

    the Demopublicans will win this election no matter which party wins and the losers as always will be the people

    And the one thing they say about Catholics is: They’ll take you as soon as you’re warm