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DeSantis Issues Warning To Doctors Performing Gender Affirming Surgery On Minors

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At a campaign event yesterday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed doctors who perform gender confirmation surgeries on minors. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continued his campaign for re-election on Wednesday, focusing on cultural and war issues. DeSantis has doubled down on his controversial stance on gender-affirming care for minors; he decried the teaching of so-called gender theory in public schools. A topic that has earned him accusations of transphobia and bigotry by many LGBTQ Americans and their allies DeSantis has celebrated his state's commitment to take doctors' medical licenses if they performed gender-firming surgeries on minors as well. The issue has become a hot topic among Republican politicians, who believe it can help them win votes among parents wary of social change. This sentence is currently leading his Democratic challenger Charlie Crist by double digits. DeSantis mentioned in his speech that:

DeSantis Excoriates 'Gender Ideology': 'It's Sad That You Even Have To Be Discussing This'

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Campaigning for re-election on Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) blasted "woke" concepts like gender ideology in education. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday campaigned for re-election in Franklin County. The Republican Governor sounded off on a host of culture war issues. including his efforts to ban critical race theory in public schools and combat so-called gender ideology. As Governor DeSantis controversially signed parental rights and education laws, critics called it the "don't say gay" Bill. He has also fought the Disney Corporation following the media giant's open opposition to the law. He is currently polling ahead of his Democratic challenger, Charlie Crist, by double digits, and is seen as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2024, trailing former President Donald Trump. 

‘He’s Now Rewriting History’: DeSantis Lashes Out At Fauci’s ‘False’ Claim

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At a campaign event on Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis took him to Dr. Anthony Fauci's recent claim that he had nothing to do with school closures. In remarks about Anthony's record of leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and his shoeing lockdowns, DeSantis ripped into the President's chief medical advisor. In a recent interview with ABC News, Fauci told Jonathan Carl he had nothing to do with school closures. DeSantis is currently leading Democrat Charlie Crist by over 10 points and is considered a top 2024 Republican presidential contender. Ron DeSantis said: We are also going to continue to work very hard on workforce education, but just the fact, if you think about it, that we work so hard to have the kids in school this whole time. You're going to see when they do these state-by-state results for the nation's report card that we will have done so much better than these lockdown states with our kids&#

Gov. DeSantis Awards $5,000 Bonus Checks To Cape Coral Police Officers in Florida

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Cape Coral at the city police department today. He held an event to provide $5,000 bonuses to Cape Coral police officers who "got a baptism by fire" during Hurricane Ian. Explaining his reasons for supporting police officers, Ron DeSantis said the state had drawn a hard line to be a law and order state, and that those who "wear the uniform" keep society from fraying by doing their jobs. He also said media attacks against law enforcement officers had been "damaging" and that those "risking their lives do not have the support" of politicians and communities "since the Floyd riots." The law established the $5,000 bonus program, provided that dependent children of law enforcement officers be eligible for new and existing scholarships, and more. It has also boosted county sheriffs’ salaries based on the population of their jurisdiction. It exempted veter

Gov. DeSantis reacts to life sentence recommendation for Nikolas Cruz

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slams the non-death penalty sentence for Parkland mass murderer Nikolas Cruz. A Florida jury on Thursday recommended Nicholas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 students and teachers in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole This came after a three-month trial to determine whether the crews faced a life sentence or the death penalty. Florida Governor Ron Desantis slammed the decision not to execute Cruz. Desantis expressed his disappointment in the jury's decision and said, "I just don't think anything else is appropriate except the capital sentence in this case." DeSantis said : I think that if you have the death penalty at all, that is a case where you're massacring those students with premeditation and utter disregard for basic humanity. You deserve the death penalty. And so t

Gov. DeSantis Responds To Biden's Comments During Visit To Florida

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is asked about President Biden's comments on global warming during his visit to Florida. On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was asked by a reporter to respond to President Biden's statements about climate change when the president visited Florida. DeSantis was holding a press conference about the ongoing recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane IAN. They touted his efforts to promote Florida's resilience infrastructure. DeSantis is a frequent critic of President Biden and his correspondents, or lack thereof, earned by the negative press in the days leading up to Hurricane IAN. But Biden's visit, however, offered an amicable moment between the two politicians, who toured the damage together with their wives. DeSantis is currently running for re-election and is considered a potential 2024 presidential contender. A journalist asked DeSantis: When Biden was here last week, he

President Donald Trump will speak at the Hispanic Leadership Conference in Miami, FL -10/5/22

  Photo "Donald Trump" by  Dan Scavino Former US President Donald Trump will deliver the keynote address at the Hispanic Leadership Conference, on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, in Miami, Florida. This event will be hosted by America First Works.  The live coverage of this event will be covered by the famous conservative news portal RSBN. So do watch Trump's speech on RSBN's app or rumble channel. This 2-day event, hosted by America First Policy Institute (AFPI), along with Bienvenido and the Hispanic Impact Panel, will feature many of our country’s top conservative Hispanic leaders, including Goya Foods Chief Executive Officer Bob Unanue, Representative Carlos Gimenez (FL), and Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (FL). Who will attend this Miami Hispanic Leadership conference? Jovita Carranza, former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration;  Pastor Mario Bramnick, Director of Hispanic Impact Panel; Abraham Enriquez, President of Bienvenido;  Giancarlo Sopo,

Ron DeSantis Snaps At Reporter's Question: 'Whoa Whoa Whoa - Give Me A Break - That Is Nonsense!'

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) fires back at a reporter's question about recent comments from FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. Forbes breaking news official youtube channel shared this viral video, which you can watch below:   DeSantis while addressing the media briefing said: Whoa, whoa, give me a break. That is nonsense. Stop politicizing. Okay, stop it. We declared a state of emergency when this thing wasn't even formed. We've had people in here. You've had counties doing They've done a lot of hard work, and honestly,  You're attacking these other people who've worked very hard, and so that's just totally false. I don't think we've ever, certainly since I've been Governor, declared a state of emergency this early. We made sure that we were very inclusive with it. We said that there was a lot of uncertainty and then we've worked to make sure the preparations that have been done and all

BREAKING: Ron DeSantis Shreds Martha's Vineyard For Deporting Migrants He Sent There

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responds to criticism for his sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard. Do watch his response below: A journalist asked Gov. DeSantis this: House Democrats condemned the vibrant place. Representative Jeffries said you (Ron DeSantis) and Texas Governor Greg Abbott need to stop acting like or start acting like governors and stop acting like human traffickers first. What is your response to that? In a second, is there a second vibrant flight going from Texas to Delaware? Responding to her question, DeSantis said: So when Biden was flying these people all over the fruited plane in the middle of the night, I didn't hear a peep out of those people okay. I haven't heard a peep about all the people that have been told by Biden you can just come in and they're going, they're being abused by the cartels, they're drowning in the Rio Grande. You had 50 that died in some shed in Texas. I heard

'Going After People That The Government Doesn't Like': Ron DeSantis Issues Warning About New IRS Agents

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr While presenting infrastructure funding to Lucie County, Florida, on Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed President Biden's economic and energy policies and the hiring of tens of thousands of new IRS agents. Do watch here: Talking about the IRS agents DeSantis said: They also authorized 87,000 new IRS agents, and those IRS agents are going to be mobilized to go after people that the government doesn't like. This is not something where they're only going to be going after billionaires. In fact, billionaires all have accountants and lawyers. They're going to be going after people who are not going to be able to defend themselves against these audits. And you know, they actually proposed an amendment when this was being debated in the US senate saying this should not be any of these agents' audits under 400,000 a year and the democrats voted that down. They did not want to protect Americans earning less t

BREAKING: DeSantis Suspends ‘Soros-Backed’ State Attorney Refusing To Prosecute Certain Offenses

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) suspends State Attorney Andrew Warren for refusing to prosecute certain crimes. Here is the video to show DeSantis Suspends ‘Soros-Backed’ State Attorney Refusing To Prosecute Certain Offenses In a press briefing on Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the suspension of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren. Having claimed Warren is backed by George Soros in a press release.  DeSantis tore into Warren's record of refusing to prosecute certain offenses. DeSantis's move comes as conservatives bemoan liberal prosecutors and District Attorneys who refused to prosecute certain crimes in the pursuit of equity. As well as Progressive bail reforms that have allowed repeat offenders to serve little to no time in prison for a range of offenses.  DeSantis who was running for re-election and is seen as a top 2024 of Republican Presidential aspirin has made tough-on crime policies C

BREAKING: DeSantis Responds To Newsom Running Controversial Ad In Florida

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slams California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the California Democrat runs ads in Florida promoting his state. On Friday Florida Governor Ron Desantis responded to California Governor Gavin Newsom running ads, urging Florida residents to come to his state. The ads are widely seen as an attempt by the California democrat to boost his national profile they promised quote freedom to those willing to leave the sunshine state for the golden state. Desantis is a top 2024 republican presidential contender who consistently runs second to former President Trump in polls Newsom is said to be considering a possible presidential run of his own his provocative advertisement has only added fuel to those who believe he has ambitions for higher office let's watch DeSantis's response well: DeSantis while talking to the media said: I'm like this everyone wants to talk about me in Florida. I mean like I'm j

DeSantis is reportedly heading to Utah next week for a private fundraiser

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr FL Gov. Ron DeSantis is reportedly heading to Utah next week for a private fundraiser with wealthy donors, leading the media to push a narrative he's already campaigning for a possible 2024 run.  Florida Governor Ron Desantis is reportedly heading to Utah next week for a private fundraiser with wealthy donors leading the media to push a narrative he's already campaigning for a possible 2024 run. Desantis plans a Utah fundraiser with GOP mega-donors signaling a possible presidential run. A recent Forbes story tells that DeSantis raises over a hundred million dollars for re-election, Ron DeSantis just gave his first 2024 speech in response to articles about DeSantis and 2024. His campaign spokeswoman Lindsay Kernut said:  Republicans this fall have an opportunity to begin saving this country from Joe Biden's destruction, but we can't be distracted by the corporate media's gossipy nonsense, that's why governor

DeSantis Press Secretary Fires Back At Newsom Ad in Florida targeting Republicans

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) released an ad in Florida targeting Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).  California Governor Gavin Newsom aired an independence day ad in Florida urging Floridians to move to the golden state of California. Democrat said quote freedom is under attack in your state before showing video of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Newsom then accused GOP leaders in the sunshine state of quote banning books making it hard to devote restricting speech in classrooms even criminalizing women and doctors before urging Floridians to move to his state the ad was reportedly set to air on fox news on July 4th watch the full  Gavin Newsom ad in Florida spot here: We’re about to celebrate Independence Day -- but Freedom is under attack by Republican leaders in states like Florida. Banning books. Restricting speech. Making it harder to vote. Criminalizing women and doctors. It’s time to stand up. Don’t let them

How Donald Trump is using Florida to plot his return to the White House in 2024?

  Photo "Donald Trump" by  Dan Scavino Donald Trump is likely to announce his much-expected 2024 presidential run from Florida, sources have told a big media house, amid speculation he is intent on overshadowing his Republican rival Ron DeSantis. The former president has formed the headquarters for a political comeback that some belief might come as soon as this month.   Sources told us that Trump is considering a summer launch for 2024 bid. Mr. Trump is plotting his return to frontline politics with the highly anticipated White House bid in 2024, there are a number of reasons why Trump might use the sunshine state to announce his candidacy. For one thing, this is the most populous swing state in the country. Voters here have the power to make or break presidential ambitions but Trump's largest motivation for considering Florida as a potential campaign launch site is the fact that it's also home to his most likely rival Ron Desantis. Desantis is Florida's governor

BREAKING: DeSantis Warns Biden Not To Rescind Remain In Mexico Policy

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) calls for President Biden not to end the Remain in Mexico policy. The supreme court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can get rid of Trump's Maine and Mexico policy, the controversial policy forced asylum seekers to stay out of the US as they awaited an immigration hearing, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responded to Thursday's ruling with the quote you're going to see the worst border crisis in history get even worse listen in for the Florida republicans, watch out the full reaction here: DeSantis said: The US supreme court made a decision about the remain in Mexico policy at the southern border. And you know they made Trump jump through a lot of hopes and now they're saying Biden can just get rid of it that may actually be with the constitution, but they're treating him differently than they treated trump which I don't think is appropriate but nevertheless, if Biden

DeSantis Responds To Court Blocking His State's 15-Week Abortion Ban

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responds to a court blocking his state's 15-week abortion ban. Judge John Cooper announced Thursday that Florida's 15-week abortion ban will be blocked in state court this comes on the heels of the supreme court ruling to overturn Roe v Wade last week Florida governor Ron DeSantis promised that he will appeal the ruling which will likely automatically block Cooper's ruling until another court decision can be issued take a listen for governor DeSantis's full reaction here. DeSantis while addressing a press conference said: You know make a couple of comments, we've had a lot of judicial activity lately but we did have a ruling in Tallahassee (Florida) effectively in joining the bill that we provided though that I signed to provide protections for unborn babies at 15 weeks and we knew that that was likely going to be what was decided in that case.  We knew that we were going to have t

DeSantis: How We Stop Busing Of Border Crossers Into State

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed the busing of border crossers into his state. In his remarks DeSantis said: Well, I think we're looking at two things: one bus company and no buses have come in the last however many months, and that's a good thing. We don't think that they should be bussing people in any of the buses that have had foreign nationals on them when law enforcement has stopped, those all were foreign nationals that did have visas to do agriculture work or something like that. So that's legal and so they're doing it, so I hope that we don't see but my fear is that you know they're gonna just start loading people on buses and sending them everywhere, so that'll be really I think that you know these bus companies then you have some of these charter companies, these charter flights which were they're really only doing for the miners. And you know the miners with us is pro

'If We Had Thrown Them To The Wolves Like Fauci Wanted...': DeSantis Slams Lockdowns

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr On Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) defended his refusal to do lockdowns.  'If We Had Thrown Them To The Wolves Like Fauci Wanted...': DeSantis Slams Lockdowns. In his complete remarks he said: We are excited about being able to deliver yet again you know when you come in a lot of people, do you know these politicians will make all these promises and then they always either just under-deliver or total totally fail to deliver. Here we set really high standards and high goals and not only did we meet them we've exceeded them.  And so that's really what it's all about being able to actually get this stuff done I mean we've got more to do but for where we said we would be three and a half years ago we are ahead of where we said we would be. and I think a lot of people are really excited about that and you're seeing a difference for sure we're just down in southwest Florida.  I mean these guys ar

DeSantis Fires Back At Disney, Accuses Media Giant Of 'Hypocrisy'

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fires back at Walt Disney Company after media giant says its "goal" is the repeal of the Parental Rights in Education Act, stating, "This state is governed by the interests of the people of the state of Florida -- it is not based on the demands of California corporate executives." DeSantis while addressing the news conference said: Ron shared his displeasure over Disney’s statement on the legislation he signed a day earlier, saying his state Florida is not run by “California corporate executives.”  DeSantis said: You know we signed the parent's rights and education bill. It's interesting when like a Disney-owned ABC would put that out in one tweet. They'd say governor Desantis signs a bill to prohibit instruction in sexual identity and gender identity in some grades, Why would they say some grades?  If you're trying to inform the root, So you saw a lot of this but then fo