Florida Man Leads His State to the Morgue

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Rick G. Rosner
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#RonDeSantis runs a deadly shitshow in Florida as he blames immigrants, gets ready to run for president.
20% of America's new #Covid cases are in Florida.
(Please don't elect this craptastic mini-Trump.)
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Florida Man Leads His State to the Morgue
Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans who made the state a plutocratic dystopia. Now he’s letting its residents die to save the plutocrats.
newrepublic.com
8:22 AM · Jul 17, 2021

https://newrepublic.com/article/158215/florida-coronavirus-cases-ron-desantis-leads-state-morgue

To get a sense of Florida’s priorities amid a viral pandemic, economic ruin, and a campaign for black lives, just look to the letter I received from state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis on Monday evening, asking me if I was a paid Chinese Communist agent.

The form letter was addressed to the Florida-based S-corporation I formed in 2009 to handle my freelance writing and editing and which, as a “veteran-owned” business, is registered as a state vendor, even though I’ve never bid on a public contract and never intend to. The letter’s aim was “to identify state vendors who are owned or controlled by the Communist Party of China.” Accordingly, it said, “you are hereby requested to respond within 30 days by verifying your status as a company owned and controlled by U.S. Interests, in order to avoid necessary follow up” by the state Department of Financial Services.

As a Republican state representative, Patronis—whose family runs a restaurant, winery, real estate, and bottled-water empire, and whose cousin is the long-serving vice president of the state gun lobby—was the Florida chairman of the notorious conservative, Koch-backed American Legislative Exchange Council. He earned fame for championing lobbyist-written bills that denuded Florida’s critical ecology and despoiled its environment. After he was term-limited out of the state House in 2014, he joined the state Cabinet as its elected CFO and promptly was accused of hiring lobbyists and moochers and pressuring state officials to stop cooperating with a case against a Miami financial adviser who had donated $25,000 to Patronis’s campaign.

On Monday, as Patronis’s office was mailing state corporations to try and ferret out Commies in their midst, Florida identified 2,783 new cases of coronavirus among its residents, the state’s highest single-day total since the global pandemic broke out. It was the third record-high daily case total Florida reported in the past week.

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1. Florida had over 8,000 new cases yesterday, 7/16

I’m finding it difficult to be sympathetic tbh.

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2. VMA131Marine.....

No sympathy what-so-ever from me-NONE. Except for those are vaccinated and have been taking the appropriate measures and still somehow got it.....