To What Extent Do Osborne And His Minions Actually Support DeSantis’ Agenda?

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Ed Mosca

Jason Osborne … the LEADER of the House-NHGOP … has endorsed Ron DeSantis, as have many of his minions. What’s curious, however, is that Osborne and his minions appear to NOT have the same priorities as DeSantis. A recent article in the Federalist details the recent accomplishments of Republicans in Florida … accomplishments that are not similar priorities of Osborne and his minions.

An obvious example is abortion:

In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Florida legislature passed the “Heartbeat Protection Act.” The bill (SB 300) — which was signed into law last month — prohibits abortions once the unborn baby has a detectible heartbeat.

Osborne and his minions, in contrast, appear content to stick with just a late-term abortion ban.

Another example is children and transgender issues. While Osborne and his minions supported the parental-rights bill that sadly failed to pass the House, Republicans in Florida, under DeSantis’ leadership, have done much more to protect children:

DeSantis also signed SB 254 and SB 1438, banning harmful transgender procedures and puberty blockers for minors and protecting children from sexually explicit performances (such as drag shows), respectively.

Republicans in Florida, under DeSantis’ leadership, are expanding on the parental-rights law they enacted last year:

Under HB 1069, students and teachers would no longer be required to “declare” their pronouns at school or be forced to address someone with pronouns not based on one’s sex. The bill also prohibits school officials from instructing children in Pre-K through eighth grade on concepts such as sexual orientation and so-called “gender identity.” The latter provision builds upon the state’s “Parental Rights in Education” bill implemented last year that bars school officials from instructing children in kindergarten through third grade on such concepts.

As far as I know, Osborne and his minions have NOT followed the NHGOP-Senate and asked Sun-King Sununu to issue SB 272 as an Executive Order.

And in Florida, higher education that pushes DEI has been defunded. In stark contrast, the budget passed by the majority-GOP NH-House pours unprecedented amounts of money into New Hampshire’s WOKE university-system with no strings attached:

Signed into law on May 15, SB 266 bars Florida universities from using federal or state taxpayer money to fund so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, programs.

It is no secret that Osborne and his minions prioritize legalizing marijuana and circumventing local zoning in order to cover the State with “workforce housing,” While DeSantis signed a workforce housing bill into law earlier this year, the focus was on helping workers rather than the NHGOP approach of simply turning the big developers loose. And legalizing marijuana is NOT one of his priorities.

I guess politics really does make for strange bedfellows.

 

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