Florida lawmakers drained, bases enraged as session nears end

[Zorro]

The two-month session was dominated by a flurry of bills that provoked emotional debate.

Florida’s Republican leaders made certain this year’s legislative session would be emotional.

With potential presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis helping set the agenda, they championed bills that stoked passions and resonated with their base on wedge issues that included sexual orientation, abortion, immigration, voting and the teaching of the nation’s racial history.

Lawmakers are set to conclude the session Monday. Throughout the last two months, Democrats and Republicans shared wrenching personal stories during heated debates that devolved into partisan and cultural clashes.

When arguing to amend a 15-week abortion ban to exempt cases of rape and incest, one Democratic senator publicly disclosed, for the first time, details about her childhood sexual assault. Black lawmakers told of how they’d been profiled by police to explain why a bill regulating conversations about race in schools and workplaces was harmful.

Gay legislators spoke of their own experiences as they discussed how one education bill could make life harder for LGBTQ children.

It made no difference.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/03/12/florida-lawmakers-drained-bases-enraged-as-session-nears-end/

Florida Republicans kowtowed to DeSantis' culture war agenda developed to promote his national exposure before the next presidential election, neglecting other civil priorities. Shame on them.

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1. You can have that hell hole...

...the beatings will not stop until morale improves!

[maxrandb]

2. Yeah, I'm sure it was "emotionally draining" for the Retrumplicans

who shoved every fucking crazy, disgusting, cruel piece of shit legislation down the throats of the minority.

Fucking media - "Retrumplicans got every cruel and disgusting thing they wanted, but they felt bad about it".

I am sure it was just as emotionally devastating for "BOTH SIDES", right?

Sure, thousands of LGBTQ kids and millions of women's lives are now in jeopardy, but some people said mean things about the people that deliberately put these lives at risk.

Fuck that noise!