Florida AG issues MLK Day memo to 'taunt Black and brown people:' Dems
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was being deliberately provocative when he released a memo on Martin Luther King Jr. Day stating he wouldn’t enforce or defend dozens of laws that mention race, the Florida House minority leader said Thursday.
“I think he did it, basically, to flaunt that he has the power and to do it to taunt Black and brown people in Florida,” said Rep. Fentrice Driskell, a Tampa Democrat, at a news conference Thursday.
“I think he did it to be inflammatory,” Driskell added, “and I think he did it, frankly, to try to get a big reaction.”
On Monday — a holiday for state workers — Uthmeier issued a news release announcing an opinion identifying more than 80 state laws that he wrote “promote and require racial discrimination on its face.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/01/22/uthmeier-desantis-race-opinion-driskell-attorney-general/