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Ron DeSantis

Those Disappearing Covid Stats: It’s Not Just Florida

August 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Florida has been accused of being less than transparent with covid health data. Newspapers have sued or threatened to sue the state several times for medical examiner reports, long-term care data, prison data and weekly covid reports the state received from the White House.

Who Wants to Be Ron DeSantis’s Surgeon General? No Easy Answers.

August 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Scott Rivkees is resigning as surgeon general. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Scott Rivkees announced he will leave his post as surgeon general and secretary of the Florida Department of Health next month. But the move comes amid a surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Combine that with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ antagonism to federal health authorities and mask mandates, and it might make it difficult to find a replacement.

Judge Rules DeSantis Had No Authority to Ban School Mask Mandates or Punish School Boards That Adopt Masking

August 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The judge issued his ruling in a zoom hearing today. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Judge John Cooper of the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court of Florida ruled today that Gov. Ron DeSantis had no legal authority under the recently-enacted Parental Bill of Rights to prohibit local school boards from adopting mask mandates that did not include opt-out provisions. The judge found DeSantis’s order “capricious” and not based in evidence, but rather based on an incomplete reading of the Bill of Rights.

In Maskless Flagler, We’re All Covid’s Sitting Ducks

August 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

The prevailing mood at last week's Flagler County School Board meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County is in the worst public health crisis it has known in its history, with at least 10 covid deaths a week as many school infections in 3 weeks as all of last year combined, yet the debate remains immobilized by a war on masks that defies science and daily grim realities.

Half of Florida’s Students Now in Districts Defying DeSantis Ban on Mask Mandates as Judge Readies to Rule

August 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

It was not a jury trial, but most of the state will jury Circuit Judge John Cooper's decision when he hands it down Friday morning. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge John Cooper said he was “still wrestling” with the “sophisticated legal issues” presented in the case and promised to issue a verbal decision at 10 a.m. Friday. DeSantis on Thursday promised to appeal if Cooper does not side with the state.

As 8 School Districts Approve Mask Mandates, DeSantis Administration Argues in Court Against Them

August 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Duval County School Board on Monday became the eighth district to approve a mask mandate with only medical reasons allowed as exceptions. It joined Alachua, Broward, Palm Beach, Sarasota, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade and Leon counties. (Duval Schools)

As the legal battle plays out, eight school districts as of Tuesday afternoon had voted to require masks for students, with exceptions only for students whose parents submit doctors’ notes. The mask mandates in the eight counties cover an estimated 1.23 million students, based on state enrollment data from the 2020-2021 school year.

Citing Unprecedented Hospital Crisis, Sarasota Is 6th Florida School District to Defy DeSantis Ban on Mask Mandates

August 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

John Wilson, who opposes mask mandates, shouts at Sarasota County School Board chair and former state Rep. Shirley Brown (standing), who called a recess to clear the room of hecklers. (Sarasota County School Education Channel)

The Sarasota County School Board voted, 3-2, late Friday to impose a 90-day mask mandate for students, employees, and visitors, citing a soaring positivity rate in locals tested for COVID-19, ovewhelmed local hospitals, and the district’s struggle to conduct sufficient school-based testing and contact tracing.

State Will Cut Funding for School Boards in Alachua and Broward Over Mask Defiance

August 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran in May. (Florida Channel.)

The Florida Board of Education will withhold money equal to the salaries of local school board members from districts in Alachua and Broward counties over their tough mask mandates for students, which state officials say violate Florida law.

U.S. Department of Education ‘Stands With You,’ It Tells Florida Superintendents Willing to Enact Mask Mandates

August 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Alachua County school employees at work on Friday. (Facebook)

The U.S. Department of Education is “deeply concerned” about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order seeking to ban school mask mandates and is ready to help districts directly, the federal agency said in a letter to the governor Friday.

DeSantis Administration Threatens to Dock School Officials’ Pay Over Masks. White House Says It May Cover Paychecks.

August 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran at a Board of Education meeting July 14, 2021. (Danielle Brown, Florida Phoenix)

Most districts have reluctantly acceded to the rules, requiring kids to wear masks but offering opt-outs at the request of parents or guardians. Broward County school officials voted Tuesday to mandate masks and if necessary challenge DeSantis in court. The Flagler school district is not going so far as to mandate, even with an opt-out. Reports from schools today indicate that only a minority of students masked up, while top school officials visiting the schools did so unmasked.

Ramping Up Campaign Against Covid Safety, DeSantis Now Opposes Hospitals Requiring Vaccines of Staff

August 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Not a fan of social distancing, either. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida reported an additional 20,133 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, making the state responsible for about 22 percent of the new cases reported nationwide for the day, according to data posted Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Citing DeSantis’s ‘Baseless and Dangerous Claims’ About Children Wearing Masks, Senator Calls Rulemaking Illegal

August 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Sen. Gary Farmer. (Wikimedia Commons)

In a letter to Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, Sen. Gary Farmer Jr., the Broward County Democrat, says the department’s move to enact an emergency rule banning school districts from enacting masking requirements is outside both the governor’s and the Education Department’s authority under law.

In Florida Covid Crisis, Politics Define Gov. DeSantis’s Decisions from Barring Mask Requirements to Vaccine Passports

August 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Elected officials’ attitudes and actions about masks and vaccinations have become a flashpoint in the increasingly tribal nature of partisan politics. The ideological schism over preventive protocols in Florida has aided DeSantis’ rise as a national presidential contender and, at the same time, become a cornerstone of Democrats’ efforts to oust him.

DeSantis Adds Florida to 11 States’ Play to Overturn Roe v. Wade’s 2-Semester Abortion Standard

August 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

"Kenneth Conner, director-at-large for Florida Right To Life, Inc., holds up the cover of Newsweek magazine, left, and pro-life ad graphic barred from 1987 state government telephone directory. Conner held up the comparisons during a Thursday news conference at which the group announced their support of Republican Paula Hawkins for the U.S. Senate."

The governors filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a 2018 Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. The filing doesn’t make these states party to Mississippi’s defense of its statute, but voices their legal support for that state’s case.

Race, Gender, Abortion: GOP Lawmakers Across the Country Are Waging a Counterrevolutionary War

July 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Republican legislatures have been uninterested in pledging allegiance to the transgender flag. (

Republicans were emboldened in the 23 states where they control the governorship and both houses of the legislature. Other factors include a newly conservative U.S. Supreme Court, GOP backlash over former President Donald Trump’s reelection loss and a tidal wave of social media campaigns and commentary aimed at galvanizing conservatives by playing up divisive cultural issues.

Covid Breaks Flagler Infection Records Daily, Filling Half Advent’s Beds; Community and Local Governments Are Indifferent

July 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Flagler, like Florida, is in covid crisis. Governments and the community at large are mostly indifferent. (© FlaglerLive)

While the Flagler Health Department and AdventHealth Palm Coast are overrun with Covid cases and in-patients, local governments have gone silent, indifferent to the worst wave of the pandemic yet, making a mockery of their claim of a “partnership” with the Health Department or the hospital and amplifying community apathy that multiplies infections.

DeSantis Ducks Reporters, His Office Is Unforthcoming About his Whereabouts Again

July 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Ron DeSantis is again weaponizing local school boards. (© FlaglerLive)

Lack of notice to the press — intermediaries for the taxpayers the governor works for — has been a persistent problem for the DeSantis administration, though it’s not a problem specific to him. Other governors have played the same games.

DeSantis Holds Roundtable on Masks in Schools. Traditional Public School Teachers and Educators Aren’t Invited.

July 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis in a July 13 roundtable on Cuba, in a still from the video posted to his Rumble account. The roundtable on masks was posted Monday. It was not visible today. (© FlaglerLive via Rumble)

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday afternoon held a roundtable discussion about masks at schools with representatives of charter and private schools, but not traditional public education. Media, the teachers’ union and even the Department of Education were not made aware.

State Government Is Sitting on $15 Billion in Federal Aid to Help Florida Schools Through Pandemic

July 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Yet so much help is out there, untapped. (Phil Roeder)

Most of the dollars have yet to be disbursed by state government to school districts for this past school year and this coming school year, and the 2021-22 academic year is just a few weeks away. That means initiatives outlined by the federal government, such as tackling student learning losses during the pandemic, are stuck waiting to help vulnerable students.

No Plans for Mandatory Masks in Flagler Schools as DeSantis Fights Possible Federal Mandate

July 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Masks were required in Flagler schools last year. Not so when school resumes on Aug. 10. (Flagler Schools)

Children under 12 are not yet eligible to be vaccinated, making them more vulnerable for infection–and transmission to adults, but DeSantis is fighting any mask mandate in schools and Flagler schools are not changing course from a mask-optional approach when school resumes on Aug. 10.

The Sleaziest Generation

July 23, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 109 Comments

The memorial to the dead of Covid near RFK Stadium in Washington. (Ron Cogswell)

This fourth wave of covid is ravaging the state. It was entirely preventable but for glib, “don’t Fauci my Florida” recklessness and the militancy, disinformation and poisonous selfishness of the unvaccinated. This is on them.

Doctors Blame DeSantis: As Florida Hospitals Filled Up, “DeSantis Was Shouting About ‘Freedom Over Faucism’”

July 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Florida physicians say DeSantis should spend more time talking to people about the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines and less time attacking federal infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci in hopes of scoring political points.

DeSantis Rebuffs Calls for Red Tide State of Emergency, Accusing Environmentalists of ‘Politicizing’ Issue

July 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A Florida Fish and Wildlife scientist takes red tide samples. (FWC)

DeSantis pointed to $4.8 million in the current state budget allocated for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Center for Red Tide Research, adding that an emergency declaration would only be warranted if the state needed to access unallocated general revenue.

Citing History, Gov. DeSantis Urges Cuban Military to Overthrow Its Government

July 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Cubans at a crossroad. (MissChampers/Flicker)

Gov. Ron DeSantis told young members of Cuba’s military to “live in the history books” by overthrowing their nation’s communist leadership, as he pushed President Joe Biden to bring Wi-Fi access back to people protesting on the island nation.

Critical Race Theory: What it Is and What, Gov. DeSantis, It Is Not

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Ron DeSantis does not understand critical race theory. (YouTube via News4Jax)

Americans are used to viewing their history through a triumphalist lens, where we overcome hardships, defeat our British oppressors and create a country where all are free with equal access to opportunities. Obviously, not all of that is true.

Dealing Florida Legislature 2nd Blow in 2 Days, Federal Judge Blocks Law Limiting Contributions for Ballot Initiatives

July 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

They're freer in Ontario. (CFS Ontario)

The law, passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature this spring and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, would impose a $3,000 limit on contributions to political committees collecting petition signatures to place proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot.

Federal Judge Blocks DeSantis’ Social Media Law, Finding It “Riddled with Imprecision and Ambiguity”

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The controversial law seeks to prevent large social-media platforms from banning political candidates from their sites and to require companies to publish — and apply consistently — standards about issues such as banning users or blocking their content.

Federal Judge Doesn’t Hide Distaste for Florida Law Forbidding Social Media from Banning Users

June 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Arguing that the law would violate social-media companies’ First Amendment rights and harm their efforts to moderate content, the industry groups have asked U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle to block the law from going into effect Thursday as scheduled.

State Workers Across the Nation Had a Holiday for Juneteenth, but Not in Florida

June 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A Juneteenth celebration at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. (Miki Jourdan)

Even with short notice after the president signed the federal holiday into law, some states were able to manage authorizing a paid day off Friday for their state employees. Gov. Ron DeSantis could have granted state workers a paid holiday. He did not.

A Debate Breaks Out During Florida Cabinet Meeting Between Fried and DeSantis, Imminent Contenders

June 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The new law restricting protesting in Florida also gives the Florida Cabinet and the governor the power to override local governments' decisions on police budgets. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Sniping between DeSantis and Fried was a marked feature of the meeting Tuesday. DeSantis, a Republican, has not yet announced for reelection next year but Fried is among a number of Democrats seeking her party’s nomination to try to deny him a second term. (So is Congressman Charlie Crist of St. Petersburg.)

Sexism + Socialism: The Republican Line on Florida’s Democratic Women Candidates Is Emerging

June 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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“Do-nothing.” “Delusional.” That’s the way Republicans are talking about Nikki Fried and Val Demings, the top Democratic women running for governor and U.S. senator in next year’s elections, reflecting a concerted strategy of sexism and denigration with no factual basis.

Made Invisible at DeSantis’s Pandemic Briefings, Surgeon General Scott Rivkees Will Remain as Surgeon General

June 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Scott Rivkees in a rare joint appearance at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, on March 13, 2020, in an image from a Florida Channel video. DeSantis at his news conferences would push Rivkees aside for the remainder of the pandemic. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Following a tumultuous two years filled with surges in Covid-19 cases, transparency issues and limited public appearances after being off-message at a DeSantis news conference, Scott Rivkees will stay on as Florida’s Surgeon General.

GOP and Democrats Agreed to $2 Million Increase in Poor’s Access to Contraception. DeSantis Vetoed It.

June 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The Florida Catholic Conference–making false claims that have been repeatedly debunked, even by the National Catholic Reporter, about a particular contraceptive method– sent a letter May 12 to DeSantis requesting that he veto the funding.

The DeSantis Pandering Machine

June 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

FOX News Owned by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

DeSantis is the perfect public face of the GOP as it is now: Obsessed with hanging onto power, fact-averse, representing an ever-shrinking coalition, and loyal, not to the American public, but to the sad, strange old man who can’t accept that he lost.

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried Enters Race for Governor, Citing Tallahassee’s ‘Rigged System’

June 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Nikki Fried during her announcement by video today.

Fried, an attorney and former medical-marijuana lobbyist who scored a narrow victory in 2018 to become the only statewide-elected Democrat, criticized Republicans’ two-decade hold on Florida government in a video announcing her gubernatorial campaign.

Gambling Deal With Seminole Tribe Could Open the Way for More Gambling Behemoths in Florida

May 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Seminole Hard Rock: It could be just the beginning.

The proposed compact with the Seminole Tribe — now awaiting DeSantis’ signature — could set the stage to allow casinos in other regions of the state, not just in South Florida.

Florida Is Shutting Off Federal Aid to Jobless, Returning Unemployed to Maximum of $275 a Week

May 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

But does it pay? (Inside the Magic)

Florida will cease distributing $300 per week in supplementary federal unemployment assistance next month, the official who supervises the state unemployment system announced on Monday, leaving jobless workers to scrape by on $275 per week.

Online Betting Is Out as Special Session Redefines $2.5 Billion Gambling Deal With Seminole Tribe

May 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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To ensure swift passage of the new compact, legislative leaders on Monday announced that DeSantis and the tribe had agreed to remove the provision requiring the state to negotiate with the tribe about online gambling.

DeSantis Signs Into Law Florida’s Largest Shift of Public Dollars to Private or Parochial Schools

May 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Public schools suddenly look more quaint in Florida. (A.J.)

The bill increases an income threshold to 375 percent of the federal poverty level, meaning a family of four making nearly $100,000 a year could qualify for vouchers. Also, it strips away current restrictions, such as a requirement of previous enrollment in public schools before students can receive vouchers.

DeSantis Touts ‘Rights and Liberties’ in Ditching Covid Restrictions; Health Experts Say That’s Dangerous

May 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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For doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and many Florida residents at large, DeSantis’s elimination of covid restrictions across the state as of July 1 is scary or reckless. The pandemic is not over, and health experts continue to advocate for maintaining safety measures to prevent further outbreaks.

DeSantis Signs Bill Retrenching Voting Rights on ‘Fox & Friends’ as Opponents Immediately File Suit

May 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial bill on "Fox & Friends" this morning.

DeSantis, who will be on the ballot in 2022 as he seeks a second term as governor, signed the bill (SB 90) on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends” after an event with supporters in West Palm Beach.

Charlie Crist Launches Bid to Reclaim Governorship

May 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Gov. Charlie Crist at the Legislature in 2007, when Marco Rubio, right, and John Thrasher, toward the left, were among the cast of characters. (Mark Foley/Florida Memory)

More than a decade after walking away from the governor’s office, U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist launched a campaign Tuesday to try to unseat Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022.

Sharp Acceleration of Shifting Tax Dollars to Private Schools Clears Senate and Heads for DeSantis Signature

April 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A postcard of one of the oldest schoolhouses in the country, in St. Augustine, pre-vouchers. (Boston Public Library)

The proposal also would increase the maximum income eligibility to receive vouchers to 375 percent of the federal poverty level, meaning a family of four making nearly $100,000 a year would qualify.

Florida Senate Passes DeSantis-Priority Bill That Would Force Political Candidates’ Speech on Social Media Platforms

April 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Bill sponsor Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, said “big tech is not a free market” and that the state has a role in regulating such companies. (NSF)

The bill, in part, would bar social-media companies from removing political candidates from the companies’ platforms. Companies that violate the prohibition could face fines of $100,000 a day for statewide candidates and $10,000 a day for other candidates.

Seminole Tribe Gets Control Over Sports Gambling Statewide in Exchange for $2.5 Billion Over 5 Years

April 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Under the proposed compact, the Seminoles would serve as the state’s hub for online sports betting, with pari-mutuel operators contracting with the tribe. The deal would allow pari-mutuels that contract with the Seminoles to keep 60 percent of sports-betting revenue, with 40 percent going to the tribe.

Lawyers’ Group Sues DeSantis Over Protest-Crackdown Bill Two Days After He Signs It Into Law

April 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Civil-rights attorneys are challenging a new set of state laws that establish a crime of “mob intimidation” and enhance penalties for riot-related violence and looting, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the measures unconstitutionally “seek to arrest the peaceful expression of free speech.”

Unlike Many Republican Leaders, Gov. DeSantis Says Yes to Getting Vaccinated

April 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference Wednesday, in a still from a Florida Channel video.

According to one survey in 22 states, Republicans were being vaccinated at a little more than half the rate for Democrats. The governor is 42, and so is included among the latest cohort to become eligible.

In Florida, Companies Will Be Shielded from Covid Lawsuits, Leaving Frontline Workers to Fend for Themselves

March 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The restaurant is protected. The waitress is not. (© FlaglerLive)

Opponents of the bill heading for Gov. DeSantis’s signature warn it will protect corporations more than people and offers no protections for front-line workers who contracted the virus while on the job. Employees are required to use the workers’ compensation insurance system for on-the-job injuries, but claims often are getting denied.

Anyone 50 and Over May Now Be Vaccinated in Florida

March 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Last week, Florida lowered the age threshold from 65 to 60, but the governor said softening demand convinced him the state could go to 50. The development occurs a little more than a year after the novel coronavirus showed up in the state, as Florida topped 2 million cases of Covid-19.

‘Covid Passports’? Not in Florida, Governor Declares, Threatening Sanctions Against Companies That Try It

March 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Britain is among the nations considering a so-called 'Covid passport,' and is exploring the possibility of denying entry into the country by those who have not been vaccinated.

DeSantis this week suggested he may go after companies if they require customers to show proof that they are vaccinated, saying “it’s more than just a private decision.” The governor was referring to what have been called Covid-19 passports, a phenomenon gathering momentum abroad.

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