Florida Governor's Office Says State Could Withhold Salaries of Officials Who Enact School Mask Mand

[appalachiablue]

Source: CNN

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's office said Monday that the state board of education could move to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who disregard the governor's executive order prohibiting mask mandates for school districts.

Last month DeSantis issued an executive order requiring the state's health and education departments to create rules preventing local school mask mandates. Several lawsuits have since been filed challenging the constitutionality of the executive order.

Some school districts are considering mask mandates and at least one has said masks will be required unless the parents opt out.

A statement from the governor's office on Monday says the state board of education "could move to withhold the salary of the district superintendent or school board members." The statement says one of DeSantis' priorities is to protect parents' rights...

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/us/florida-desantis-school-mask-mandates/index.html

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[DURHAM D]

1. You can not get any sicker than this mother fucker. nt

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

5. Yes, he is an absolute asshole.

Another Trump wannabe.

[Champp]

2. Republicans punishing people for protecting themselves

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

6. Yes and it is absolutely insane.

[DBoon]

12. You are only suposed ot protect yourself with a gun

[bahboo]

3. torches and pitchforks time for this asshole...

[hibbing]

4. I'll say it again, one party is actively promoting the virus n/t

[Escurumbele]

46. And I will say it again, this is to try to discredit Biden, but I think it is going to backfire

There has to be a legal way of accusing these criminals of murder, I can't see it any other way, but I am not a lawyer.

[rambler_american]

49. It's called Depraved Indifference Murder

"Depraved heart murder is the form of murder that establishes that the willful doing of a dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved, is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues, as is the express intent to kill itself. This highly blameworthy state of mind is not one of mere negligence. It is not merely one even of gross criminal negligence. It involves rather the deliberate perpetration of a knowingly dangerous act with reckless and wanton unconcern and indifference as to whether anyone is harmed or not. The common law treats such a state of mind as just as blameworthy, just as anti-social and, therefore, just as truly murderous as the specific intents to kill and to harm."

~ http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/D/DepravedHeartMurder.aspx

[CentralMass]

7. This is criminal.

[Corgigal]

8. Gonna kill the wrong person kids,

or family

Oh well, he’s an ass.

[Lars39]

29. Yep

That came to my mind, too.

[DemocraticPatriot]

51. I've said something to that effect, on one site or another...

Guv. Ron is spending a lot of bad karma. I'd hate to be him when the bill comes due.

[Ocelot II]

9. Somebody explain to me why DeSatan and Abbott are *actively prohibiting* anti-covid measures.

They aren't just ignoring covid by failing to mandate or even recommend vaccinations and masks, which would be bad enough; they are going out of their way to prevent other entities within their states - cities, schools, private businesses - from doing those things. It's like they want to kill off their supporters. It's just performative loyalty signaling and it's killing people.

[kimbutgar]

15. He wants to blame President Biden for his negligence for the 22 election talking point

And there are enough stupid magas to believe what he says.

Fox was reporting about President Obama’s 60th birthday party saying it was a super spreader event ( which I bet everyone was tested and vaccinated ) not one word about AG Rosen and his testimony this weekend.

[appalachiablue]

16. ++

[Beartracks]

43. Remember when Repubs said Dems wanted to make Trump look bad by wearing masks?

That's because that's what THEY would've done if roles were reversed then. But now it makes sense (to them) to NOT wear masks to make the Dem President "look bad." And DeSantis certainly can't run the risk of people not obeying his wish that they be, uh, "free," so he's restricting their freedom. You know how Republicans hate choice.

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[Marthe48]

17. I think they are aliens

determined to wipe out the human race.

Those 2 creatures are certainly not on the side of humans.

No one ever elected officals to allow them life and death control of law-abiding citizens.

[essaynnc]

42. The top 10 list of reasons why:::::::

Only some of which might be the "REAL" reason........

10. Mask mandate would scare people and lower the economic activity in his state.
9. Killing off the weak will result in evolutionary "stronger" race of trumpist to take over the country.
8. A cruel act of Voter Suppression.
7. They're angling for the undertaker votes.
6. They're taking their marching orders from Puttie, destabilize the US.
5. They WILL blame the Democrats, no mater who it is...Biden, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, Pelosi, Fauci, their next D opponent, ANYONE !!!
4. Playing to that shrinking base, 'cause FREEDUM!! Might make them more apt to actually start some shit, cause you know, democratic pizza eating pedophiles did this to our country.
3. They're actually democrats in disguise, just like TFG, bent on ruining the republican party.
2. Aliens from another world?? Always a possibility!!

And finally, number 1: They're lizard people, bent on inhabiting the world after Covid kills a bunch of humans and climate change makes the planet more likeable to their species.

[PerceptionManagement]

10. @GovRonDeSantis is failing in his voter outreach.

[Joinfortmill]

13. When does this become a crime?

He's killing people.

[zeusdogmom]

14. At least Gov. Asa Hutchinson is man enough to admit he was wrong about mask mandates

DeSantis and Abbott just keep digging themselves a deeper hole because you know “real” leaders never admit they might be wrong 🤣

What an effin goat rope

[elleng]

21. Yes, Hutchinson did/said the right thing.

[lees1975]

18. Aren't the Republicans the shrieking, lip flapping mob about governors not having

the authority to close private businesses and shut things down during the pandemic. If he doesn't have the authority to make people wear masks, close non-essential businesses or take other action because of the pandemic, then he doesn't have the authority to interfere with school administrators requiring students to wear masks.

[Skittles]

20. they're always screaming about "government overreach"

I mean, that is a serious WTF

[Skittles]

19. he calls himself "pro-life"

[madaboutharry]

22. There is no end to his assholery!

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Theft of wages

I sure hope the state does not have the right to interfere with contracted employees pay for partisan political purposes.

This just says lawsuit to me.

[monkeyman1]

27. him & abbott need's wedding vows!!!

[appalachiablue]

31. ++

[DemocraticPatriot]

52. Somehow I have my doubts that the state board of education

would go along with this.

[Traildogbob]

24. There probably

Will be a shortage of child size coffins. Not a normal high demand. DeSatan must have some stock or friends in the child size coffin business.

[Traildogbob]

25. And....

Freezer trucks full of kids outside hospitals are not a good look on the political campaigns. Steve Schmidt will have a heyday with that. GQP will claim crisis actors. But what about that smell? That’s the smell of owning the libs.

[sakabatou]

26. I swear DeSatan is trying to kill Floridians on purpose

[bucolic_frolic]

34. Realtor pay day from all the house flipping and estate settling

Someone should expose his $$$$$$ interests and backers.

[hadEnuf]

38. Especially defenseless children.

He is a monster.

[monkeyman1]

28. the shit is really about to go nuclear!!!

[BlueIdaho]

30. The beatings will continue until morale improves...

All this for a political “win?”

[Jon King]

32. He has painted himself into a corner.

He sees no other way now but to ramp up the MAGA crazy. He likely knows he blew it nationally for 2024, now its all about trying to keep the diehard base to get reelected in FL.

[LiberalFighter]

33. Salaries should not be coming from the state.

The school district should be handling the finances.

[Phoenix61]

35. Yeah, try it. That's not going to work. Wage and labor laws

are pretty clear about withholding pay. I’d like to think educators are smart enough to know that. I can see this giving the teachers’ union a huge boost.

[bucolic_frolic]

36. Damn fool governor should know schools operate in loco parentis

in the place of parents. It's the very definition of a school. Preserving parents' rights with masks went out the window 150 years ago.

[hadEnuf]

37. Is DeSantis even human?

Pure evil.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

39. He's a jackass

That is all.

[dalton99a]

40. POS is a mass murderer and proud of it.

[piddyprints]

41. This is frightening.

Our kids graduated from Florida schools. It was bad back then, for different reasons. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The health of the kids was not on their radar at all. But at least that nonsense didn’t come from the governor. I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable sending them to school there now.

[keithbvadu2]

44. It's a law. Right? Arrest them!

It's a law. Right? Arrest them!

Or don't you have the cojones for it?

[LymphocyteLover]

45. So. Fucking. Evil.

[Moebym]

47. Trump Republicans sure have a twisted definition of freedom.

They view mask mandates and vaccine requirements as attacks on freedom, but in turn, they restrict the freedom of local school districts to impose their own mask mandates to protect students and teachers and that of private businesses to require masks and proof of vaccination to protect their employees and customers.

And let's not even get into how they want to limit women's freedom to choose what to do with our own bodies.

The freedom they speak of clearly does not extend to everyone.

[Renew Deal]

48. Some kid will die and Desantis will pay dearly.

Especially when it's pointed out that he put pandering to extremists in anticipation for his presidential run above children's lives. Democrats should accuse him of running for president, just so he has to deny it.

[obamanut2012]

54. Children have died here

It won't matter until it's quite a few white or Cuban-American kids, and/or rich people's kids.

on edit: or newborns and babies.

[C Moon]

50. He's putting lives at risk, to gamble on his political future.

Another of the GOP dregs of society.

[zanana1]

53. Fascist.

[Politicub]

55. Gotta get those Covid death numbers up for GOP clout.

I wonder what the scoring system is? Perhaps bonus points are awarded based on age: The deaths of children under 10 years old get a whopping five bonus points. Hospitalizations merit a paltry +2.

The GOP has decided the DeSantis dystopia is a winning electoral strategy, probably.