It makes perfect sense that sanctuary cities and sanctuary states are the right place for illegals to go. After all, they are such “welcoming people”. lol
Then give those places notice. And stop acting like sending them to some small residential island and the Vice President's home isn't a political stunt. It's not attractive.
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Just wanted to point out that none of the immigrants DeSantis flew to Martha's Vineyard were even in Florida. They were in Texas. He flew them from Texas to Florida and then put them on a connecting flight to Martha's Vineyard. Don't let this trump wannabe fool you....
DeSantis addresses Florida funds used to fly migrants from Texas to New England. Here’s what he had to say
State funds used to transport migrants ‘intending to come to Florida,’ governor says
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed the use of state funds to fly undocumented immigrants who are “intending to come to Florida” from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard during a news conference in Daytona Beach on Friday.
“So our view is you got to deal with it at the source,” DeSantis said. “And if they’re intending to come to Florida, or many of them are intending to come to Florida, that’s our best way to make sure that they end up in a sanctuary (jurisdiction).”
DeSantis stated that Florida has not seen “any major movements of people into Florida.” The governor said that the migrants on those flights were in Texas prior to arriving in Martha’s Vineyard, though they did land in Florida briefly.
“They went from Texas to Florida, to Martha’s Vineyard, he said. “And with the flight, there’s also going to be buses, and there will likely be more flights.”
The governor said the money for the flights came from $12 million in the budget earmarked for “transport of unauthorized aliens from this state,” according to Section 185 of the HB 5001 budget.
According to voting records, HB 5001 received widespread bipartisan support, passing with 105 votes in the Florida House of Representatives and 33 votes in the Florida Senate. Only three representatives voted against the measure.
“I’ll tell you this, the legislature gave me $12 million, we’re going to spend every penny of that to make sure that we’re protecting the people of the state of Florida,” DeSantis said.
The governor claimed 40% of the migrants in Texas are looking to come to Florida.
“So they’ve been in Texas, identifying people that are trying to come to Florida, and then offering them free transportation to sanctuary jurisdictions,” Desantis said.
The governor did not say who was identifying people trying to come to Florida, though he did explain the process of identifying which migrants will “try to get to Florida.”
“We have people on the ground (in Texas) — and it’s pretty consistent: about 40% mentioned Florida — and so what we’re trying to do is profile who do you think is going to try to get to Florida,” DeSantis said. “So that’s how you’re doing it. They’re not told that they’re going to stay in Florida. They’re told that their ultimate destination, in this case, was what was up in Massachusetts and with Martha’s Vineyard.”
DeSantis denied accusations that the migrants did not know they were going to Martha’s Vineyard prior to their arrival.
“The folks that are contracted, not only do they give him a release form to sign, they actually give them a packet, and in that packet included a map of Martha’s Vineyard,” he said. “So it was obvious that that’s where they were going.”
DeSantis said that the migrants were all transported on a voluntary basis.
The governor has received scrutiny over his move to fly these migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
Earlier on Friday, faith leaders held a news conference in Orlando to speak out against the flights.
“The reality is that through our Florida history, immigrants have helped to build our economy, our businesses and our communities. And that’s it. Point blank period. Immigrants helped build Orlando, immigrants helped build the state of Florida and we need to make sure that we’re recognizing that they’re coming here to work,” Samuel Vilchez Santiago, state director of the American Business Immigration Coalition Action, said.
DeSantis is also receiving some questions from within his own party.
State Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, posted online, questioning the use of state funds.
“I’m awaiting clarification on where the funds came from and if the authorization for them is not from this language, where is it from,” Brandes said, referring to Section 185 of the budget.
Make no mistake about it. DeSantis is flying them into Florida from Texas based solely on what "people on the ground" are telling him that these people want to come to Florida. It appears none of these funds are allocated to pay to bring these immigrants from Texas to Florida. In order to spend the money to send them out of Florida, he must somehow get them into Florida in the first place. For anyone trying to uphold this BS by claiming this isn't a political stunt, just stop.
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I'm not sure what part of wanting some communication in advance that they're sending these people some are missing. I guess they endorse playing political games with human beings.
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Yep, they point out the issues that plague every administration and blame the Dems for every plague, as if a Republican administration did anything at all to help the issues that plague us all. Lol. Oh well. The GOPer party of obstruction continues. Cutting off their collective noses in spite of their faces. Hell bent to make Biden look bad and making trump their savior. Like the good little deplorable lap dogs they are.
But he was going to build the wall... smh.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
I refuse to give recognition to these GOPer cries over the border while their leaders act like idiots, trying to taunt sanctuary cities, and they are still supporting full-on fascist MAGA. As far as I'm concerned those immigrants are better people.
That's all well and good, but tell me what should be done about it, rather than point out the obvious that DeSantis and Abbott are self-interested d-bags.
Well, like most Dems, especially progressive Dems, I think there are bigger fish to fry right now. But we are not blind to the border issues or illegal crossings, as some think we are. We believe that national security, a traitorous party, and a criminal FPOTUS is the far more significant concern of the moment. Let us stabilize our democracy first, then focus on all the other minutia.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
Yep, they point out the issues that plague every administration and blame the Dems for every plague, as if a Republican administration did anything at all to help the issues that plague us all. Lol. Oh well. The GOPer party of obstruction continues. Cutting off their collective noses in spite of their faces. Hell bent to make Biden look bad and making trump their savior. Like the good little deplorable lap dogs they are.
But he was going to build the wall... smh.
And Steve Bannon put the Shake and Bake on them. Claiming, just like this little girl that he was helping.
And then this happened.
Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to NY state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to border wall effort
I don’t disagree there are bigger issues in the country, but I think what Pit has been talking about - and what I agree with - is at least giving up advance notice for now. There are so many teams and staffers who work for all involved. Putting something in place now where people get sent to these locations with advance notice, routing, etc. seems like it could just be a practical thing to do.
But, to your point, that’s not what any of these republicans care about at the core.
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Want to know the ironic part of this? If the news media ignored the stunt, it would have gone away and never accomplished it's intent. Instead, they made it into a huge story.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
DeSantis Admits Mass Migration Not Really A Big Problem In Florida Right Now Sara Boboltz Tue, September 20, 2022, 5:48 PM·3 min read
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) offered a bit more insight Tuesday into why he is spending hundreds of thousands in state taxpayer funds chartering private flights to transport migrants to states that lie hundreds of miles away.
Lately the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have been deploying a strategy to raise awareness of the surge in people crossing the southern U.S. border by busing them to cities run by their political rivals. Last week, DeSantis joined in, claiming credit for two flights from San Antonio to the tony Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard.
Among the many legal and ethical questions DeSantis raised with his stunt was a simple logistical one: Why didn’t he start with migrants in his own state?
“The problem is, we’re not seeing mass movements of them into Florida, so you end up with a car with maybe two,” DeSantis told reporters at a news conference.
“It’s just coming in onesie, twosies,” he said.
DeSantis is apparently seeking to discourage migrants from thinking they can settle in his state, saying his administration has “done a lot of intelligence” on the matter and found that 30% to 40% of people attempting to cross the southern U.S. border want to end up in Florida.
“And so, we have to go and figure out, OK, who are those people likely to be? And if you can do it at the source and divert to sanctuary jurisdictions, the chance they end up in Florida is much less,” DeSantis said.
Last Wednesday, about 50 migrants ― most of them from Venezuela ― were left to fend for themselves upon arrival on Martha’s Vineyard, as no one in DeSantis’ camp had let local authorities know about the plan.
Authorities in Delaware spent much of Tuesday preparing for the possibility that DeSantis would send another planeload of migrants there. Flight tracking websites indicated that the planes that took off from San Antonio last week were plotting a similar course to a small airport near President Joe Biden’s house, but the flights did not take off as scheduled.
The migrants brought to Martha’s Vineyard filed a class action lawsuit against DeSantis and his administration on Tuesday, following reports that they had been purposefully mislead about the circumstances of their travel.
While the Florida governor has been criticized widely for treating migrants inhumanely, he has garnered plenty of support in his own party.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voiced approval for the idea of transporting migrants to Northern cities.
“I personally thought it was a good idea,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday, saying: “If you added up all of the illegals that’ve been taken to Chicago or Washington or Martha’s Vineyard, it would be fewer than people down in Texas have to deal with on a daily basis.”
The surge in migration along the Mexico border has come after years of political and economic instability in countries across Central and South America. People crossing into southern border states either wish to apply for asylum protections or to stay in the country illegally to live and work in relative safety.
Sadly, they're piggy-backing off the 2016 movement. They could drive those buses straight into the ocean and still probably use the resulting furor for political gain.
Blue ostriches on crack float on milkshakes between the sidewalk titans of gurglefitz. --YTown
Want to know the ironic part of this? If the news media ignored the stunt, it would have gone away and never accomplished it's intent. Instead, they made it into a huge story.
Umm really? It’s not huge news for two US state Governors to traffic asylum seekers from a state to another state without notice, just for their GOP sheep and a political video op? Of course it’s a huge story. It’s freaking criminal and this should be prosecuted as such. GOP’ers pffft.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
Well it's the medias fault for reporting the terrible things they do. Haven't you heard? It should be left up to FOX News and the right wing media sources to twist these stories and nobody else should say anything about it.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voiced approval for the idea of transporting migrants to Northern cities.
“I personally thought it was a good idea,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday, saying: “If you added up all of the illegals that’ve been taken to Chicago or Washington or Martha’s Vineyard, it would be fewer than people down in Texas have to deal with on a daily basis.”
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Oh come now Mcturtle face…these immigrants were legally in the USA! Stupid stunt by GOPers.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
The details are in the video in the link. Not sure how to post a video emnbedding in an article
Military documents show Ohio GOP House candidate misrepresented military service Wed, September 21, 2022, 2:14 PM
Campaigning for a northwestern Ohio congressional seat, Republican J.R. Majewski presents himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, once describing “tough” conditions including a lack of running water that forced him to go more than 40 days without a shower. But military documents obtained by the Associated Press through a public records request tell a different story.
ill never understand it. dude was stationed in japan, and did a deployment in Qatar in the air force. that's freaking cool, so why lie about it? especially knowing people are gonna obviously see your service record, and there's veterans who served with you who gonna roast you for lying about your service and call you out. the people you're representing already has your back due to you being a veteran, combat or not. bro that combat crap isn't something to be proud of, like a freaking marketing tool. if some of us even have the ability to share the experience, we're supposed to talk about our experience so that people can take into account all perspectives and impacts of events like war, and why it should be prevented.
but instead im constantly seeing clowns use it like a freaking wrestling narrative.
so we use our military experience to then encourage an insurrection at the capitol, now? tell me this doesn't remind you of that one vet who always ask for a military discount everywhere he goes. we all know one, or a few. so that's already bad enough that he's encouraging revolts against the government over election lies and trump. but then he gotta lie about his service, too? how insecure is he that he can rationalize it and keep it moving? the end really justifies the means, huh?
and what exactly is the endgame here? OCD, Pit. guys im sorry i dont understand their endgame. they aren't being clear what they're upset about and what their overall goals are.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
House passes election law overhaul in response to Jan. 6 MARY CLARE JALONICK Wed, September 21, 2022, 12:03 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed legislation to overhaul the rules for certifying the results of a presidential election as lawmakers accelerate their response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Donald Trump’s failed attempt to remain in power.
The bill, which is similar to bipartisan legislation moving through the Senate, would overhaul an arcane 1800s-era statute known as the Electoral Count Act that governs, along with the U.S. Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners.
While that process has long been routine and ceremonial, Trump and a group of his aides and lawyers unsuccessfully tried to exploit loopholes in the law in an attempt to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Democrats are pushing to pass the bill before the end of the year and ahead of the 2024 election cycle as Trump is considering another run.
While at least 10 GOP senators have signed on to the Senate version, the House vote fell mostly along party lines. House Republicans — most of whom are still aligned with Trump — argued that the legislation shouldn't be a priority and that it is a political vehicle for Democrats ahead of November's midterm elections.
The final vote was 229-203, with nine Republicans joining all Democrats in voting for the bill. None of the nine Republicans is returning to Congress next year.
The legislation would set new parameters around the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress that happens every four years after a presidential election. The day turned violent last year after hundreds of Trump’s supporters interrupted the proceedings, broke into the building and threatened the lives of then-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress. The rioters echoed Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud and wanted Pence to block Biden’s victory as he presided over the joint session.
The legislation intends to ensure that future Jan. 6 sessions are “as the constitution envisioned, a ministerial day,” said Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who co-sponsored the legislation with House Administration Committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. Both Cheney and Lofgren are also members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
Ahead of the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the legislation is necessary as there have been attempts in states across the country to change election laws to make it easier to nullify future results.
“Now we have a solemn duty to ensure that future efforts to undermine our elections cannot succeed,” Pelosi said.
The bill would clarify in the law that the vice president’s role presiding over the count is only ceremonial and that he or she cannot change the results. It also sets out that each state can only send one certified set of electors after Trump's allies had unsuccessfully tried to put together alternate slates of illegitimate pro-Trump electors in swing states where Biden won.
“This bill will make it harder to convince people that they have the right to overthrow an election,” Lofgren said.
The legislation would increase the threshold for individual lawmakers’ objections to any state's electoral votes, requiring a third of the House and a third of the Senate to object to trigger votes on the results in both chambers. Currently, only one lawmaker in the House and one lawmaker in the Senate has to object. The House bill would set out very narrow grounds for those objections, an attempt to thwart baseless or politically motivated challenges.
In addition, the bill would require courts to get involved if state or local officials want to delay a presidential vote or refuse to certify the results.
The House vote comes as the Senate is moving on a similar track with enough Republican support to virtually ensure passage before the end of the year. After months of talks, House Democrats introduced their legislation Monday and held the quick vote two days later in order to send the bill across the Capitol and start to resolve differences. A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation this summer and a Senate committee is expected to vote on it next week.
While the House bill is more expansive than the Senate version, the two bills cover similar ground and members in both chambers are optimistic that they can work out the differences. And despite the mostly party-line vote in the House, supporters are encouraged by the bipartisan effort in the Senate.
“Both sides have an incentive to want a set of clear rules, and this is an antiquated law that no one understands,” said Benjamin Ginsburg, a longtime GOP lawyer who consulted with lawmakers as they wrote the bill. “All parties benefit from clarity.”
House GOP leaders encouraged their members to vote against the legislation. They said the involvement of courts could drag out elections and said the bill would take rights away from states.
The bill is an “attempt to federalize our elections,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., said on the House floor. He argued that voters are more focused on the economy and other issues than elections law.
“In my area of Pennsylvania, nobody is talking about this," Reschenthaler said.
Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, Lofgren’s GOP counterpart on the House Administration Committee, said Democrats are “desperately trying to talk about their favorite topic, and that is former President Donald Trump."
Democrats said the bill was not only a response to Trump, but also a way to prevent objections and mischief from all candidates in the future.
“If you think that this legislation is an attack on President Trump, you simply haven’t read the legislation because there’s nothing in there attacking President Trump,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., another member of the Jan. 6 panel. “This is about reforming the Electoral Count Act so it works for the American people.”
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was blunter. He criticized Republicans who have defended Trump's actions that day and who have downplayed the seriousness of the former president's attempts to overturn the results of the election.
Hoyer called the Republican opposition a “rationalization of what I believe is treason. ... It was rationalized then, and sadly it is being rationalized now.”
The nine Republicans who voted in support of the legislation are all either retiring or were defeated for reelection in their GOP primaries this year. Eight of the nine voted for Trump's impeachment immediately after the insurrection.
The nine Republicans are Cheney and Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Fred Upton of Michigan, Peter Meijer of Michigan, Tom Rice of South Carolina, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, John Katko of New York and Chris Jacobs of New York.
Republicans think this is an ataack on trump because they know trump tried to overthrow the election and has plans to try again in the future should he get the opportunity. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to vote against this bill unless they have intentions to try another coup
Don't blame the clown for acting like a clown. Ask yourself why you keep going to the circus.
Want to know the ironic part of this? If the news media ignored the stunt, it would have gone away and never accomplished it's intent. Instead, they made it into a huge story.
Umm really? It’s not huge news for two US state Governors to traffic asylum seekers from a state to another state without notice, just for their GOP sheep and a political video op? Of course it’s a huge story. It’s freaking criminal and this should be prosecuted as such. GOP’ers pffft.
What's the problem?? We're sending asylum seekers to states that have said they would welcome illegal immigrants... I hope we keep sending them... spread the wealth... you want open borders? fine... then let the blue states share in the responsibility for these 'asylum seekers'....
Want to know the ironic part of this? If the news media ignored the stunt, it would have gone away and never accomplished it's intent. Instead, they made it into a huge story.
Umm really? It’s not huge news for two US state Governors to traffic asylum seekers from a state to another state without notice, just for their GOP sheep and a political video op? Of course it’s a huge story. It’s freaking criminal and this should be prosecuted as such. GOP’ers pffft.
What's the problem?? We're sending asylum seekers to states that have said they would welcome illegal immigrants... I hope we keep sending them... spread the wealth... you want open borders? fine... then let the blue states share in the responsibility for these 'asylum seekers'....
100% agreed. The blue states are sanctuary states, and cities, right up until illegals get there...............Then they're all "hey, we didn't know they were coming." "lets ship them off somewhere else. We can't afford to house them, and feed them." But they expect Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico. etc to do just that?
It was a lousy day for old Donnie. The civil suit James filed will be his financial undoing, potentially sending him away on a RICO charge or many fraud charges. It is likely that one or more of his children will also be charged. Perhaps all of them. Later in the evening, the applet court overruled the lower court's decision. This allows the FBI and intelligence community to resume investigating their case(s) against Trump immediately.
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Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
How many times do people need to explain to you that all people want is a heads up that they're coming? And since when is it okay for the governor of Florida to send people to Texas in order to recruit people to be flown into Florida so he can send them to another location? If he wants to find people who are in his own state, then fine. He's lying to these people who are actually here legally and sending them somewhere that nobody knows they're coming to. And you applaud that.
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It's like when your sister and her 2 kids come to visit. If she calls and tells you she'll be there in 2 weeks you prep the guest rooms and do some different grocery shopping. Everything goes smoothly. On the other hand, if she shows up at your door with her 2 kids out of the blue at 2 am, you still take her in and feed them and put them up. It is a lot more stressful though.
Don't blame the clown for acting like a clown. Ask yourself why you keep going to the circus.
Want to know the ironic part of this? If the news media ignored the stunt, it would have gone away and never accomplished it's intent. Instead, they made it into a huge story.
Umm really? It’s not huge news for two US state Governors to traffic asylum seekers from a state to another state without notice, just for their GOP sheep and a political video op? Of course it’s a huge story. It’s freaking criminal and this should be prosecuted as such. GOP’ers pffft.
What's the problem?? We're sending asylum seekers to states that have said they would welcome illegal immigrants... I hope we keep sending them... spread the wealth... you want open borders? fine... then let the blue states share in the responsibility for these 'asylum seekers'....
100% agreed. The blue states are sanctuary states, and cities, right up until illegals get there...............Then they're all "hey, we didn't know they were coming." "lets ship them off somewhere else. We can't afford to house them, and feed them." But they expect Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico. etc to do just that?
You contards are once again completely ignoring the simple fact that asylum seekers are not illegally in the USA. They are being processed and this political video op was just a stunt that now extended and complicated their legal immigration process. Murica!
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
It's like when your sister and her 2 kids come to visit. If she calls and tells you she'll be there in 2 weeks you prep the guest rooms and do some different grocery shopping. Everything goes smoothly. On the other hand, if she shows up at your door with her 2 kids out of the blue at 2 am, you still take her in and feed them and put them up. It is a lot more stressful though.
Not really. And you have a messed up sister bro.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
The thread has pointed out that they have hearings scheduled and are here legally at least until the time of their hearings. Being honest about that doesn't suit their agenda.
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You gotta love how GOPers outsmart themselves playing to the radical base. Desantis will probably be charged for his stunt. Trump is crooked as hell and gets caught so often that he is personally removing himself from the equation.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
DeSantis to face trial for suspension of prosecutor who defied abortion ban law Richard Luscombe Fri, September 23, 2022, 4:00 AM·3 min read
A Florida prosecutor suspended by Ron DeSantis for defying a new 15-week abortion law says a federal judge’s decision to send his reinstatement appeal to trial means a reckoning is coming for the state’s Republican governor.
Andrew Warren, a Democrat, was removed as Hillsborough county state attorney on 4 August after saying he would not enforce the abortion ban or prosecute providers of gender transition treatment for young people.
DeSantis cited Warren’s alleged “woke agenda” in reasons for his decision.
At a hearing in Tallahassee on Monday, Judge Robert Hinkle denied motions from DeSantis to dismiss Warren’s lawsuit, and another by Warren seeking an immediate return to office, instead requesting their differences be settled at a trial in the coming weeks.
“The governor now has to answer it to a court of law where facts matter and where you have to tell the truth,” Warren said in an interview with the Guardian.
“It’s a victory for the truth. A federal judge has ruled that the governor has to come into court to explain the reasons behind my suspension, to show that it wasn’t political, to show that it wasn’t in violation of my free speech rights, to show that it wasn’t in violation of the voters’ rights to have the state attorney of their choice.”
The closely watched case is expected to give clarity to DeSantis’s power to purge elected officials who disagree with him. In recent weeks, the governor has also removed four members of a school board in Broward county that defied him over Covid-19 mask mandates.
“The governor is entrusted by the people of Florida to utilize his constitutional powers and may suspend elected officials in Florida who refuse to enforce the law,” DeSantis’s office said in a statement following Monday’s hearing.
Critics, however, have accused the governor of selective application of the principle. The Orlando Sentinel noted that DeSantis has taken no action against so-called “constitutional” sheriffs who say they won’t enforce certain gun laws.
But he did act in 2019, suspending the Broward county sheriff, Scott Israel, a Democrat, for “neglect of duty”.
Warren said he believed a trial, which could begin as early as next month, would cut through any political posturing.
“This has always been a fight for democracy, and rule of law, and for elections,” he said.
“This is our fight for the truth. And now the people will get the truth because the governor is being forced to explain himself.
“Ultimately, he may be called to testify in court. The court was pretty clear that it wants to hear from the governor in terms of the explanations about the suspension to make sure that the reasons why I was suspended are consistent with Florida law, and with federal law.”
Warren said his reinstatement was not the sole objective of his lawsuit.
“I would have liked to be back in office already but there’s more at stake than just my job,” he said.
“Regardless of what party you belong to, or who you vote for, yours always matters. No elected official has the right to throw out anyone’s vote. And the governor here has tried to throw out the votes of hundreds of thousands of Floridians and overturn an election.
“If he gets away with it, what’s left of our democracy? What’s the point of having elections?”
Warren ran as a progressive when he unseated long-term incumbent Republican Mark Ober as Hillsborough county state attorney in 2016, and was re-elected with 53% of the vote four years later.
He immediately set about enacting policies that upset conservatives, the Tampa Bay Times reported, including a pledge to introduce programs to rehabilitate convicts and prevent recidivism.
According to Tampa’s Fox13, Susan Lopez, whom DeSantis appointed in Warren’s place, has already reversed several of his policies, including the reinstatement of a controversial law enforcement “bike-stop” measure that critics say unfairly targets minorities.
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