DeSantis Vetoes $35M for Tampa Bay Rays After Gun-Control Tweets Following Uvalde Massacre

[babylonsister]

Jeeze. I still wonder where he got the idea he was king?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-gov-ron-desantis-vetoes-dollar35m-for-tampa-bay-rays-after-gun-control-tweets-following-uvalde-massacre?ref=home

DeSantis Vetoes $35M for Tampa Bay Rays After Gun-Control Tweets Following Uvalde Massacre
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Rachel Olding
Breaking News Editor
Published Jun. 03, 2022 11:00AM ET

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed the state budget’s $35 million that would have funded a new training facility and youth complex for the Tampa Bay Rays after the Major League Baseball team tweeted its support for gun control in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting. DeSantis’ 12-page veto list shows he rejected about $3.1 billion of the state’s $109.9 billion budget on Thursday. His spokeswoman Christina Pushaw tweeted that governor’s office “generally does not give reasons for line-item vetoes,” including the Rays veto. But she retweeted several news articles that suggested it was due to the organization’s comments on gun-violence prevention. On Thursday, she also tweeted: “As a general principle, taxpayer funds should not be subsidizing partisan political activist organizations. Corporations do not have the right to get corporate welfare, turn around and ‘donate’ taxpayer dollars to communist progressive causes nobody voted for.”

[spooky3]

1. First amendment violation--govt punishing org for exercising free speech? Nt

[In It to Win It]

4. They gotta sue to enforce it... and so far, no one is suing

[SoCalDavidS]

2. He Got The Idea From FL Voters

Who are almost certainly going to re-elect him in November. That's why he can get away with shit like this, and not have to worry.

[grumpyduck]

3. Here's where a Democrat billionaire

who lives outside of FL could tell him to fuck off by donating money that's just sitting there.

If I were one of thise, I would.

[sarisataka]

5. On the one hand, sports teams

Should pay for their own stadiums, facilities, etc.

On the other hand, companies should not face government sanctions for making a statement on any issue. Their consumers can decide to sanction them or not with their patronage.

[onethatcares]

6. but they can donate to rightwing fascist causes

because ............

then he doesn't support Citizens United? THis guy is nucking futz.

[lpbk2713]

7. ... communist progressive causes

This guy is ludicrous.

He won't be around much longer and the Rays can try it again.