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May 25 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Twenty-four hours after appearing with Elon Musk to announce his campaign for president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a bill into law that will shield Musk's SpaceX and other private space companies from negligence lawsuits after an explosion or a crash.
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Below is a meeting record showing a lobbyist for SpaceX testifying in support of the House version of the bill. (Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Boeing Co. lobbied for this lawsuit shield, too.) Image

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Mar 28
A Florida House committee just approved a bill (HB 715) that would cut between $40 million and $100 million a year from education funding in order to give more money to stores that sell lottery tickets.

A lobbyist for 7-Eleven testified in support of it.
The sponsor of the bill – Rep. Jim Mooney, a Republican from the Florida Keys – repeatedly claimed that the bill wouldn’t impact education funding.

He ought to think about reading the staff analysis for his own bill:
Two notes:

1. EETF stands for "Educational Enhancement Trust Fund." And it pays for things like Bright Futures Scholarships.

2. The negative $37.1 million estimate is the *floor.*

Legislative economists say the cut could actually end up being nearly $100 million a year.
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Mar 28
The Florida Senate starts to move today on a 6-week abortion ban meant to strengthen Gov. Ron DeSantis’ position in the Republican presidential primary.

As they do, here’s an example of how sensitive DeSantis and his staff are to charges that their abortion bans are anti-women:
Just before the end of last year’s session, DeSantis’ senior leadership team began plotting out the public bill-signing rallies and ceremonies they could hold around the state to attract more news coverage for the governor.
One of the bills they wanted to promote was House Bill 5, which imposed a 15-week abortion ban without any exceptions for victims of rape, incest or human trafficking.

But they also wanted to be very careful about how they promoted it.
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Mar 27
At the risk of being Charlie Brown and the football, here's some promising news from Tallahassee:

House Bill 5 (House Speaker Paul Renner's bill to abolish Enterprise Florida and a bunch of tax incentive programs) would finally eliminate the single worst tax break in Florida.
That tax break is the "Urban High Crime Area Jobs Tax Credit Program."

It was created in the 1990s, championed by Black lawmakers looking to help crime- and poverty-stricken communities around Florida.

It has instead become an ongoing subsidy for Universal Studios.
Roughly $35 million has been awarded through the program since its inception.

**More than half** has been paid to Universal and its hotel joint-venture with Loews.

This disparity has grown even worse in recent years, according to updated numbers from legislative staffers:
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Mar 27
The bills to protect car dealers and high-interest loan companies passed unanimously.

Bipartisanship!
In related news, the Florida Automobile Dealers Association (lobbyists for car dealers) and the Florida Financial Services Association (lobbyists for high-interest installment lenders) have been showering campaign contributions on lawmakers in both parties.
See: jasongarcia.substack.com/i/110521048/le…
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Mar 24
Florida House Speaker Paul Renner just acknowledged that the defamation bill moving through the Legislature that would make it much easier to sue news organizations – another bill that began with Ron DeSantis – is intentionally unconstitutional.
The goal, he said, is to provoke a showdown before the United States Supreme Court and potentially overturn a landmark case (New York Times v. Sullivan) that sets a very high bar for defamation suits brought by public figures.
DeSantis' office has also acknowledged this – internally, at least.

The below passage is from a memo the Governor's Office wrote about an early draft of this defamation legislation, which was obtained through a public-records request:
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Mar 23
The Florida Senate is going to take up an aggressively anti-union piece of legislation later today that Gov. Ron DeSantis is driving through the Legislature this session (SB 256).
The Orlando Weekly's @SheCarriesOn has done some really good deep dives into the legislation.

But the bottom-line goal here is to destabilize, defund and, ultimately, decertify unions that collectively bargain on behalf of most public-sector workers.

orlandoweekly.com/news/floridas-…
This legislation is primarily targeted at unions representing teachers. But it would go far beyond them.

It would also attack unions for bus drivers, 911 dispatchers, nurses, librarians, garbage haulers, utility line workers and cafeteria employees, among many others.
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