Republican Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis&#8217;</a> fiery press secretary has resigned from her state office in order to act as his re-election campaign&#8217;s rapid response director.
&#8220;I am starting a new job on Monday on the governor&#8217;s reelection campaign,&#8221; Christina Pushaw shared in a phone interview with The Daily Wire on Friday afternoon. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be director of rapid response. So that&#8217;s somewhat similar to what I&#8217;m doing now, except more political, obviously. And it&#8217;ll involve both communications and research, which I&#8217;m really excited about.&#8221;
Pushaw <a href="https://twitter.com/theflstandard/status/1558104117884723200">said Friday</a> that she will resign from her position effective August 12, thanking the governor and his officers for giving her &#8220;latitude to respond to media narratives in direct and often unconventional ways&#8221; and allowing her to &#8220;redefine this role for a leader whose actions speak for themselves.&#8221;
She emphasized that she has full confidence in her successor, Bryan Griffin, who formerly served as her deputy, noting that &#8220;the chance to play even a small part&#8221; in making Florida the &#8220;freest state in these United States,&#8221; as DeSantis has previously said, &#8220;has truly been the opportunity of a lifetime.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, the gloves are off,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1558104306292760583">tweeted</a> on Friday morning as The Florida Standard broke the news of her switch. Her tweet was a little &#8220;tongue-in-cheek,&#8221; she shared laughingly with The Daily Wire, noting that she does not typically hold back with her responses to the press.
&#8220;Traditionally for a state employee, you don&#8217;t have a lot of latitude,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve been really fortunate to have that latitude to respond, to debunk those false narratives for more than a year that I&#8217;ve been here.&#8221;
Now that she will be working on the governor&#8217;s campaign, she&#8217;ll be able to directly respond to whoever wins the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and be &#8220;more direct&#8221; in terms of how she responds to political attacks.
&#8220;I think that is going to be important at this juncture, for the next three months,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Our focus has to be on defeating those who would take Florida off the great path that it&#8217;s been on under this governor.&#8221;
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Pushaw has consistently called out the press for “bad-faith coverage” and “skewed” or biased reporting, using Twitter to expose media narratives or to call out specific reporters who she feels misrepresent the facts.
“They’re afraid of the governor,” Pushaw <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/12/16/desantis-christina-pushaw-florida-trump-liberal-media/">said in a December interview</a> with The Daily Signal. “The left-wing elites, the establishment, and the corporate media are very much afraid of him. And it shows that he’s a good leader, and that he’s doing a good job.”
“I often say I wish I didn’t have to call people out on Twitter or be confrontational,” Pushaw said at the time. “I always try to speak directly with the reporter first and see if I can get all their questions answered and get the information to them that they’re looking for.”
“But the thing is,” she added, “if I do that, and they publish something that’s not true, then I have no choice but to say something direct and publicly about it and to condemn this.”
In her resignation letter, Pushaw described the historic challenges that Floridians have faced. These challenges have included &#8220;protecting the rights of citizens to earn a living, gather to worship and celebrate life&#8217;s milestones, and raise their children free of unconstitutional mandates.&#8221;
It also includes &#8220;ensuring that every student is set up for a lifetime of success with high-quality education — not ideological indoctrination,&#8221; she noted, and &#8220;unleashing economic opportunity and achieving stability at the state level — despite reckless inflationary spending and tax hikes at the federal level.&#8221;
She also emphasized the importance of &#8220;upholding the rule of law and keeping Floridians safe&#8221; as well as &#8220;protecting life, promoting fatherhood, supporting foster and adoptive families, and leading the country in the fight to defend parental rights.&#8221;

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‘The Gloves Are Off’: Fiery DeSantis Spox Resigns From State Office, Heads To His Campaign

DeSantis Spox Christina Pushaw Heads To His Re-Election Campaign 

2022 Midterms

Christina Pushaw

Florida

Ron DeSantis

Domestic subscription rates for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney">Disney’s</a> flagship streaming service have <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business">slowed</a> to a crawl after the entertainment conglomerate engaged in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/woke">left-wing</a> political causes.
Although Disney reported on Wednesday that total subscriptions for Disney+ increased from 87.6 million to 93.6 million during the <a href="https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/app/uploads/2022/08/q3-fy22-earnings.pdf">third quarter</a> of its current fiscal year, the vast majority of the growth arose from international users, with only 100,000 new subscriptions coming from Americans. The latest figures represent a significant slowdown from the 1.5 million new domestic subscribers added by Disney during its fiscal <a href="https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/app/uploads/2022/05/q2-fy22-earnings.pdf">second quarter</a>.
Indeed, toward the conclusion of the second quarter — which, for Disney, ended on April 2 — the company leaped into the fray of contentious left-wing political battles. Beyond <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-announces-plans-to-oppose-texas-order-criminalizing-sex-change-surgeries-on-children">vowing</a> to “take action” against the state of Texas for officials’ orders to investigate transgender procedures upon children as child abuse, Disney opposed parental rights legislation in Florida signed by Republican Governor <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> banning classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten to third grade.
“Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that,” a Disney spokesman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-florida-bill-banning-sexuality-gender-discussions-for-little-kids-should-never-have-passed">told</a> The Daily Wire.
Despite its fervent activism, Disney appeared to be drastically out of step with the American public. In an exclusive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-poll-over-60-of-americans-back-floridas-limits-on-k-3-lessons-on-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity">poll</a> from The Daily Wire, 64% of Americans — including 62% of Democrats and 57% of independents — supported the Florida law.
In response, DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-desantis-torches-disney-over-opposition-to-law-banning-sexual-ideology-being-forced-on-young-children">repeatedly vowed</a> that Disney would “never run this state” during his tenure and signed legislation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shell-companies-and-shady-lawyers-why-did-disney-get-to-govern-itself-in-florida">nixing</a> the Reedy Creek Improvement District — a 39-square-mile special governing and tax district near Orlando, Florida, that hosted Disney World.
“Someone said Disney has all these special perks,” DeSantis explained. “Should you retaliate against them for them coming out and demagoguing this bill? I don’t believe you ‘retaliate,’ but I think what I would say is, as a matter of first principle, I don’t support special privileges in law just because a company is powerful, and they’ve been able to wield a lot of power.”
Meanwhile, a Disney producer openly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-at-all-secret-gay-agenda-disney-employees-break-down-adding-queerness-to-shows-and-degenderizing-theme-parks">boasted</a> about her “not-at-all secret gay agenda,” as well as the company&#8217;s efforts to infuse children’s productions with LGBTQ content. Disney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-launches-lgbtq-pride-collection-clothing-line-for-kids-promises-to-donate-profits-to-lgbtq-organizations">launched</a> a &#8220;Pride collection&#8221; of rainbow-colored merchandise for children in late May.
Disney is by no means the only American corporation facing backlash from consumers for promoting LGBTQ content. Insurance company State Farm was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-state-farm-backs-down-on-donating-transgender-books-for-five-year-olds-to-schools">forced</a> to back down after outrage over its plan to donate books about transgenderism to schools and public libraries for children as young as five years old, while streaming service Netflix elected to take a hardline stance against censorship amid employee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-fires-major-warning-shot-at-its-woke-employees-with-new-culture-memo">backlash</a> to a comedy special from Dave Chappelle critical of transgenderism.
Though many Americans want companies to advance certain causes beyond their bottom lines, another exclusive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes">poll</a> from The Daily Wire recently showed that most American investors would rather see companies pursue profits rather than pontificating on political matters. While 29% of respondents to the poll agreed it is a “good thing” for companies to leverage their financial power for political or social means supported by executives, 58% — twice as many — said it is a “bad thing.”
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)

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U.S. Subscriptions At Ultra-Woke Disney Slow To A Crawl After Company Loses Left-Wing Political Battles

Ultra-Woke Disney Sees Subscriptions Slow To A Crawl After Dabbling In Leftist Politics

Business

Disney

Netflix

Wokeness

Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> blasted the FBI&#8217;s raid Monday night on former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s home at Mar-a-Lago, saying the Biden administration has turned the nation into a &#8220;Banana Republic.&#8221;
The investigation is centered around classified material that Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago from the White House. But the shocking specter of federal agents swarming a former president&#8217;s private home left many conservatives, including DeSantis, stunned.
&#8220;The raid of [Mar-a-Lago] is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,&#8221; DeSantis wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.&#8221;
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The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL/status/1556803433939755010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-details-emerge-about-what-fbi-agents-were-searching-for-in-raid-on-trump-home-report-says">reported</a> that Trump delayed returning more than a dozen boxes of material to the National Archives which included documents that were “marked as classified national security information.”
Federal prosecutors opened a grand jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-open-grand-jury-investigation-into-trump-over-activities-at-his-florida-home-report">investigation</a> back in May into Trump over whether classified material that ended up at his home in Mar-a-Lago was mishandled.
The main purpose of these types of investigations is usually for federal authorities to determine if any classified material was compromised so that intelligence officials can take steps to protect sensitive sources and methods. Prosecutors are seeking to learn every aspect of how the documents were handled from the time the documents left the White House until they were returned to the National Archives.
For prosecutors to be able to prove that a crime was committed, they would need evidence showing that the parties involved in removing the documents from the White House knew that the documents were classified and knew that removing them would violate the law.
This is a developing news story; refresh the page for updates.

Florida Governor Desantis And Former President Trump Headline Conservative Student Summit In Tampa

DeSantis Blasts Biden’s ‘Banana Republic’ After Feds Raid Trump’s Mar-A-Lago

Donald Trump

Mar-a-Lago

Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> (R-FL) is hitting the campaign trail to ramp up support for Republicans in key races ahead of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-election">midterm elections</a>.
The Sunshine State Republican will headline ‘Unite and Win’ rallies hosted by Turning Point Action in New Mexico, Arizona, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in support of candidates including Kari Lake, Blake Masters, J.D. Vance, Doug Mastriano, Mark Ronchetti, and Yvette Herrell, &#8220;in some of this election cycle’s most consequential elections.&#8221;
&#8220;Gov. DeSantis has the unique ability to unite conservatives around these candidates, and Turning Point Action is honored to host and organize these rallies on their behalf,&#8221; Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point Action, said in a statement.
DeSantis will head to Arizona next weekend to campaign for Masters, who is running for Senate, and Lake, who won the GOP gubernatorial primary. Then, he will be on to Pennsylvania to boost gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano and Ohio to campaign for Senate candidate Vance.
Kirk described DeSantis as the &#8220;model for a new conservative movement that is willing to stand on principle and to actually fight on behalf of the values of his voters.&#8221;
&#8220;That he is willing to throw the full weight of his support behind Kari, Doug, Blake, JD, and Rep. Yvette tells you everything you need to know about these incredible candidates who I endorse and support 100%,&#8221; Kirk said.
&#8220;We believe Kari Lake will be the Ron DeSantis of the West, and Blake and JD will help break apart the uni-party consensus in Washington, D.C. to stop the endless wars, the runaway spending and put an end to the cocktail party Republicans who seem to be good at one thing only, betraying their voters,&#8221; he added.
In a statement to Fox News, Vance said he looks forward to having DeSantis rally &#8220;Ohioans to a red wave in November.&#8221;
&#8220;Ohioans are sick of Joe Biden and Tim Ryan’s betrayal: they raised taxes on the working and middle class, ruined the U.S. economy, and are forcing their far-left wokeness on the rest of us,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-hit-campaign-trail-rally-support-trump-endorsed-candidates-unite-win">Vance said</a>. &#8220;When I’m in the Senate, I will fight to make our state and our country more prosperous, more safe and more free.&#8221;

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DeSantis Hits Campaign Trail To Support Republicans In Key States

DeSantis Heads To Battleground States To Headline 'Unite And Win' Rallies For Republicans

Blake Masters

JD Vance

TPUSA

“Real Time” host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher">Bill Maher</a> mocked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party">Democrat</a> Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom">Gavin Newsom’s</a> recent ad in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a> attacking the state and Florida GOP Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> in which Newsom claimed, “Freedom is under attack in your state. I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight — or join us in California, where we still believe in freedom.”
“Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate, Freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom,“ Maher quoted Newsom’s ad, then declared, “I guess my question is: Who’s got the freedom fight now? Because I could see the Republicans saying, &#8216;Well, we stand up for your right to have your guns, we don’t [do] COVID mandates, you know, you have your freedom to be free.&#8217;”
Then Maher bluntly stated, “I certainly don’t always feel free in this state, I must say, and I have felt freer in Florida.”
In March, Bill Maher <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-defends-florida-bill-maybe-kids-that-young-shouldnt-be-thinking-about-sex-at-all/">defended</a> Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, saying:
<blockquote>If people don’t know, this is something DeSantis is about to sign. And I guess it’s a reaction to Republicans who feel that there’s too much talk in lower grades. I think it’s only — they’re talking about kindergarten to third grade. So we’re talking about very young kids who, you know, as always with this stuff, you know this. It’s not like there’s no kernel of truth in that maybe kids that young shouldn’t be thinking about sex at all.</blockquote>
After news broke that Newsom would run ads in Florida, Dave Abrams, a spokesperson for DeSantis&#8217;s re-election campaign, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-buys-ad-space-in-florida-desantis-campaign-responds">told</a> The Daily Wire, “Gavin Newsom might as well light a pile of cash on fire. Pass the popcorn for his desperate attempt to win back the California refugees who fled the hellhole he created in his state to come to Florida.&#8221;
“The people of Florida pay no mind to the pathetic smear campaigns from the Democrats and their allies in the corporate media,” Abrams added. “We’re too busy enjoying the freedom Governor Ron DeSantis has created in the Sunshine State.”
James Grant, Florida’s chief information officer, tweeted, “That time when @GavinNewsom spent ‘Newsom for Governor’ dollars to run for Governor of, wait for it… Florida? All while Californians continues [sic] exercising the freedom to vote with their feet and leave California. Rich.”
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That time when <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> spent “Newsom for Governor” dollars to run for Governor of, wait for it… Florida?
All while Californians continues exercising the freedom to vote with their feet and leave California.
Rich. <a href="https://t.co/MLeIrRwcSC">https://t.co/MLeIrRwcSC</a>
&mdash; James Grant (@JamesGrantFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesGrantFL/status/1544029395488325647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Jeremy Redfern, spokesman for the Florida Department of Health, echoed, “Shouldn’t you be worried about California?”
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Shouldn’t you be worried about California? <a href="https://t.co/etzKfZ9OQs">pic.twitter.com/etzKfZ9OQs</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyRedfernFL/status/1543709609780707329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The DeSantis campaign <a href="https://secure.winred.com/rondesantis/storefront/i-heart-california-white-coffee-mug/details/">created mugs</a> saying, “I [heart] CA but I wish my governor was Ron DeSantis.”
The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-buys-cable-ads-to-run-in-Florida-17269450.php">reported</a> in late June that Newsom’s re-election campaign spent over $100,000 on cable TV ads to run on Fox News in Florida starting July 4.
In 2021, more than <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/11/californians-working-from-home-are-moving-to-mexico-amid-inflation.html#:~:text=More%20than%20360%2C000%20people%20left,heading%20south%20of%20the%20border." data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}">360,000 people left California</a>, CNBC reported in June.

2011 Summer TCA Tour – Day 2

Bill Maher Mocks Gavin Newsom’s Florida Attack Ads: ‘I Have Felt Freer In Florida’

Bill Maher

Gavin Newsom

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) took a shot at Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday where she also admitted that she liked to work with her Democrat colleagues more than her Republican ones.
Cheney said that she “would find it very difficult” to support DeSantis in a general election against a Democrat if DeSantis becomes the 2024 GOP nominee for president.
“I think that Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think that’s very dangerous,” Cheney said.
Cheney also said that she prefers working with her Democrat women in Congress than Republican women.
“I would much rather serve with Mikie Sherrill and Chrissy Houlahan and Elissa Slotkin than Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, even though on substance certainly I have big disagreements with the Democratic women I just mentioned,” Cheney said. “But they love this country, they do their homework and they are people that are trying to do the right thing for the country.”
The report noted that Cheney&#8217;s chances of holding onto her seat in the upcoming primary election next week are slim at best as polls show Cheney losing to primary challenger Harriet Hageman by more than 20 points.
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This amazing LA Times graph indicates that the J6 Show Trial is mostly a fundraising operation for <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepLizCheney</a> <a href="https://t.co/6LKEQEEgqw">pic.twitter.com/6LKEQEEgqw</a>
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Cheney recently told CNN that she does not expect to lose in her primary race but that losing may end up being the price that she pays for standing up to Trump.
“If the cost of standing up for the Constitution is losing the House seat, then that’s a price I’m willing to pay,” Cheney said.
Some Republicans who might agree with Cheney&#8217;s goals have stated that she is going about trying to achieve them the wrong way.
“It depends on if you want to go out in a blaze of glory and be ineffective or if you want to try to be effective,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said. “I respect her but I wouldn’t have made the same choice.”
DeSantis blasted Cheney back in February over her work in targeting her own party by working with Democrats on the January 6 committee.
&#8220;Cheney is totally off the rails with her nonsense,” DeSantis said. &#8220;And I think she’s not really a Republican in terms of what she’s doing. We want people that are going to fight the left. And that’s what we need to do in this country.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s what we’re doing in Florida, standing up for people’s freedoms,” DeSantis continued. &#8220;We’re opposing wokeness. We’re opposing all these things. To act like the main issue in this country is things that happened over a year ago, I can tell you in Florida that’s not what Floridians are concerned about. They’re concerned about inflation and gas prices.&#8221;
&#8220;So I think focusing on the issues and showing that we stand for things that matter to people is the way forward,&#8221; DeSantis concluded. &#8220;To have a vendetta against Donald Trump and to constantly be bringing this up is just not something that I think Republican voters are interested in.&#8221;

Liz Cheney of Wyoming on Capitol Hill

Cheney Takes Shot At DeSantis; Admits She Likes Working With Democrats More Than Republicans

Liz Cheney

The woke prosecutor who was removed from office this week by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a> Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> claimed in an interview that the move by the governor was &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; and that he would continue to work in his current role.
DeSantis announced this week that he was removing State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit from office because Warren was not enforcing the law. DeSantis had law enforcement remove Warren from his office to ensure that &#8220;no files, papers, documents, notes, records, computers, or removable storage media&#8221; were removed from the office.
When asked during an interview Friday about what has changed in Florida that has led to the state&#8217;s governor utilizing more of his constitutional authority to govern, Warren responded, &#8220;What&#8217;s changed is that the governor has changed.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, policy differences aside, we&#8217;ve had governors who have respected the rule of law, and now we have one who clearly doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; Warren claimed without evidence. &#8220;I mean, he is stepping on the rights of the voters of Hillsborough County.&#8221;
&#8220;This is blatantly unconstitutional in violation of Florida Statute,&#8221; Warren said. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have the authority to suspend me just because he wants to, especially when he&#8217;s focused on things that I haven&#8217;t even done yet. The bottom line is that people elected me to serve in this position, and I&#8217;m going to continue doing it to keep our neighborhoods safe.&#8221;
DeSantis <a href="https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Executive-Order-22-176.pdf">explained</a> in his executive order removing Warren from office where he gets the power in Florida&#8217;s constitution to be able to remove a state attorney from office.
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Suspended Fla. Prosecutor <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewWarrenFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewWarrenFL</a>: &quot;Blatantly unconstitutional&quot; for <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovRonDeSantis</a> to suspend me. &quot;He does not have the authority to suspend me &#8230; the people elected me to serve in this position and I am going to continue doing it.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/lLGroFQTcJ">pic.twitter.com/lLGroFQTcJ</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1555522318427996161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-sends-police-to-remove-woke-soros-prosecutor-from-office-for-failing-to-enforce-laws">said</a> during an interview this week that prosecutors backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros, like Warren, were doing serious damage to cities and towns across America.
“Here’s what Soros is doing. It’s actually smart on his part, they can’t get these things enacted in a legislature where you’re just gonna let criminals run [amok],” DeSantis said. “So what they do, he will get involved in these Democrat primaries and a Democrat area, he’ll flush a million dollars to get the radical to win the primary then they usually win the general because of the party affiliation difference in the jurisdiction.”
“So then you get them in there and what they do is they want to change the criminal justice system through non-enforcement,” he continued. “So it’s a total end run around our constitutional system. The results obviously have been destructive around the country. But it also really undermines the idea that ours is supposed to be a government of laws, not a government of individual men.”

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The Florida State Attorney that GOP Governor Ron DeSantis suspended for his woke policies had the audacity to quote the Bible in 2020 to justify the arrest of a Christian pastor holding public services.
In March 2020, Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren justified the arrest of Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne of the River Church at Tampa Bay for violating the guidelines prohibiting large gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To justify the arrest, Warren <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wg7CYDPKbo&amp;t=1s">declared</a>, “Putting your parishioners at risk in a time of an emergency like this is not only reckless, but it’s illegal,” Warren declared. “I’d like to note that I think it’s unfortunate that the pastor here is hiding behind the First Amendment. &#8230; It’s absolutely clear that emergency orders like this are constitutional and valid.”
Warren then cited the Bible: “I’d remind the good pastor of Mark 12:31, which says there’s no more important commandment than to love thy neighbor as thyself. Loving your neighbors is protecting them, not jeopardizing their health by exposing them to this deadly virus.”
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“It’s not about a virus; it’s about the church being a (sic) essential service to the community,” Howard-Browne had insisted.
By mid-May, Warren had changed his mind; his office announced it would not pursue the case against Howard-Browne. Still, Warren <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/15/charges-dropped-against-tampa-pastor-who-held-services-during-stay-at-home-order/">insisted</a> that the arrest of Howard Browne “remains an appropriate step taken by law enforcement to immediately correct irresponsible behavior after repeated efforts to gain cooperation in other ways were not successful.”
“The constitution of Florida has vested the veto power in the governor, not in state attorneys,” DeSantis said. “We are not going to allow this pathogen of ignoring the law to get a foothold in the state of Florida.”
At the press conference where DeSantis suspended Warren, former Tampa Police chief Brian Dugan blistered Warren, saying, “Let me tell you something: Andrew Warren is a fraud. Yeah, did you get that?”
“I’ve never been good at sugarcoating anything,” Dugan noted. &#8220;That’s probably why it took me 28 years to become chief of police. He’s a fraud. He has misled the people of Hillsborough County.”
“Do you remember back during the riots when we arrested 67 people one night?” Dugan asked rhetorically. “And then he, what, a few weeks later, he has a press conference. And what does he say at this press conference? He says that there were no acts of violence, no property damage. He must not have read the police report; there were pictures of a police car with broken windshields. As the cops tried to get out of the cars, protesters pushed their doors shut on them and wouldn’t allow them out of the cars.”
“So when you say there’s no acts of violence, when you say there’s no property damage at a press conference, where I come from, you’re lying,” Dugan snapped.
“Those 67 people that got arrested, Andrew Warren said at his press conference that he would work with local law enforcement to expunge those arrests,” Dugan recalled. “He does not have the ability to do an administrative expungment on those arrests. Do you know how many articles have been written about how he expunged those arrests? How would you like to be one of those 67 people that got arrested and you think that that arrest has been expunged. Ask Andrew Warren how many of those expungements he did, and the answer will be zero. Not a single arrest has been expunged. He has misled our community.”
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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis sent law enforcement officials to remove woke State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit, who was backed by Democrat mega donor George Soros, from office this week.
“State Attorneys have a duty to prosecute crimes as defined in Florida law, not to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,” DeSantis said in a statement. “It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida. I have the utmost trust that Judge Susan Lopez will lead the office through this transition and faithfully uphold the rule of law.”
In the Executive Order suspending Warren from office, DeSantis ordered, &#8220;As of the signing of this Executive Order, the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, assisted by other law enforcement agencies as necessary, is requested to: (i) assist in the immediate transition of Andrew Warren from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida, with access only to retrieve his personal belongings; and (ii) ensure that no files, papers, documents, notes, records, computers, or removable storage media are removed from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida by Andrew Warren or any of his staff.&#8221;
When asked during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson about why he issued the Executive Order, DeSantis said that &#8220;Soros prosecutors around the country&#8221; have &#8220;basically take it upon themselves to determine which laws should be followed, and which laws should not be followed.&#8221;
DeSantis, who noted that he has the state constitutional authority to remove prosecutors from office if they are not doing their jobs, said that he had his staff review all state attorneys and that&#8217;s when they discovered the issues with Warren.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s what Soros is doing. It&#8217;s actually smart on his part, they can&#8217;t get these things enacted in a legislature where you&#8217;re just gonna let criminals run [amok],&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;So what they do, he will get involved in these Democrat primaries and a Democrat area, he&#8217;ll flush a million dollars to get the radical to win the primary then they usually win the general because of the party affiliation difference in the jurisdiction.&#8221;
&#8220;So then you get them in there and what they do is they want to change the criminal justice system through non-enforcement,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So it&#8217;s a total end run around our constitutional system. The results obviously have been destructive around the country. But it also really undermines the idea that ours is supposed to be a government of laws, not a government of individual men.&#8221;

DeSantis Sends Police To Remove Woke Soros Prosecutor From Office For Failing To Enforce Laws

Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> (R-FL) announced Thursday that &#8220;effective immediately,&#8221; he is suspending liberal State Attorney Andrew Warren for refusing to uphold the state&#8217;s laws.
“State Attorneys have a duty to prosecute crimes as defined in Florida law, not to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,” DeSantis said in a statement. “It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida. I have the utmost trust that Judge Susan Lopez will lead the office through this transition and faithfully uphold the rule of law.”
In a <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2022/08/04/governor-ron-desantis-suspends-state-attorney-andrew-warren-for-refusing-to-enforce-florida-law/">release</a>, the governor&#8217;s office said that he has the authority to do so under Article IV, Section 7 of the Constitution of the State of Florida and that he has appointed Susan Lopez to serve as State Attorney for the period of suspension.
Lopez, the state attorney of the 13th Judicial Circuit, said she has the &#8220;utmost respect for our state laws&#8221; and understands &#8220;the important role that the State Attorney plays in ensuring the safety of our community and the enforcement of our laws.&#8221;
Backed by numerous law enforcement and state officials, the governor argued in a Thursday press conference that Warren has repeatedly refused to enforce the state&#8217;s laws.
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&#8220;The constitution of Florida has vested the veto power in the governor, not in state attorneys,&#8221; DeSantis said at the press conference. &#8220;We are not going to allow this pathogen of ignoring the law to get a foothold in the state of Florida.&#8221;
DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw had <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1555003744781230080">teased</a> the announcement on Wednesday evening, warning that the announcement would spark &#8220;the liberal media meltdown of the year.&#8221;
&#8220;Progressive prosecutors backed by Soros have refused to enforce laws across the country,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1555196440410050564">said</a> in a Thursday tweet. &#8220;They treat criminals with deference &amp; victims with contempt. This dereliction of duty is why crime is surging. But <a class="link-complex" href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener user" data-user-name="GovRonDeSantis">@GovRonDeSantis</a> won’t stand for this. He just suspended the one in Florida.&#8221;

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Nearly two dozen Republican governors slammed a massive spending bill that Democrats are trying to ram through the U.S. Senate in a statement Thursday, saying that the bill will worsen inflation.
The statement comes as Senate Democrats rush to make last minute changes to a massive $740 billion spending bill that they will try to pass before the August recess by using the reconciliation process because the bill lacks bipartisan support.
&#8220;The Democrats’ solution to 40-year high inflation is passing another reckless tax and spending spree to the tune of $740 billion, affecting Americans in every tax bracket,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;While denying recession, Democrats want to raise taxes on businesses and manufacturers, which will force higher costs onto consumers, worsen inflation, and aggravate shortages.&#8221;
&#8220;With sky high prices at the pump, the last thing Americans need is for Democrats to punish energy producers, which will ultimately hurt working families struggling to pay for gas, goods, food, and utilities,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Our citizens cannot afford Joe Biden’s broken promises on taxes and Democrats’ inflationary spending that will only exacerbate the economic crisis they created.”
Governors Henry McMaster (R-SC) and Brian Kemp (R-GA) led the 22 Republican governors in issuing the joint statement.
The other Republican governors who signed onto the statement included Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Doug Ducey (R-AZ), Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), Brad Little (R-ID), Kim Reynolds (R-IA), Tate Reeves (R-MS), Mike Parson (R-MO), Greg Gianforte (R-MT), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Kristi Noem (R-SD), Bill Lee (R-TN), Greg Abbott (R-TX), Mark Gordon (R-WY), Chris Sununu (R-NH), Kevin Stitt (R-OK), Doug Burgum (R-ND), Kay Ivey (R-AL), Spencer Cox (R-UT), Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), and Eric Holcomb (R-IN).
The statement from the governors comes after the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-slams-democrats-for-trying-to-claim-economy-is-not-in-a-recession-what-a-bunch-of-weasels">released</a> data last week showing that the U.S. economy shrank for the second straight quarter, satisfying the traditional requirement of a recession.
The Biden administration has downplayed the poor economic news by claiming that the economy is transitioning out of a fast-paced, post-pandemic recovery to a more stable environment. The White House’s claims come as Americans continue to be battered by inflation, which measured over 9% in June.
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

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The state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a>, under the leadership of GOP Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a>, is going out of its way to help military veterans with a program titled the Military Veterans Certification Pathway that would permit a four-year veteran with a minimum 2.5 GPA in college to teach in classrooms while they are initially paired with a mentor teacher.
The state is plagued by a severe teacher shortage; <a href="https://mrctv.org/blog/florida-turns-military-veterans-fill-staggering-teacher-vacancies">MRCTV</a> noted that by last week, Brevard County Public Schools listed 179 classroom teacher openings, Osceola County Public Schools 271, and Orange County Public Schools 167.
The program is “a great pathway for us to be able to have our veterans, in this veteran-friendly state, to step up to the plate,” Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/florida-schools-hiring-military-veterans-teacher-vacancies-classrooms">Fox News</a>, pointing out that veterans are used to time management and discipline.
“This is important in our classrooms because we’re missing some of that with today’s younger generation,” he said.
“You give me somebody who has four years of experience as a Devil Dog over somebody who has four years of experience at Shoehorn U and I will take the Marine every day of the week and twice on Sunday,” DeSantis asserted.
“Another thing we did is we said, ‘OK, how can we get more talent into our school system?’ So we did a bill this past year that said if you have completed four years of active duty military and you have, I think, 60 hours of college coursework, you’re eligible,” he continued, as <a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/543752-send-in-the-marines-ron-desantis-defends-ex-military-teachers-over-ed-majors/">Florida Politics</a> reported. “If you had a 2.5 GPA and passed whatever the tests are to pass, you get temporary certification. You can work toward your degree. But you can go in and contribute.”
DeSantis bluntly addressed critics of the idea, saying, “You’ve got some people in the media or whatever who are criticizing this. You had the head of the <a href="https://floridainsider.com/education/veterans-can-now-teach-in-florida-schools-without-a-degree/">teachers’ union in Sarasota</a> criticize it, saying, ‘You can’t just throw any warm body into the classroom.&#8217; Well, I’ll tell you something: people who have served our country are not just some ‘warm body.’ They have a lot to offer our communities.”
“Experienced military leaders who have mentored and educated military service members for years may have skills and experiences that can translate easily to the classroom and would be a ready-made workforce for Florida’s public and charter schools and could address short and long-term workforce needs,” the Florida Senate’s <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/896/Analyses/2022s00896.rc.PDF">bill analysis</a> stated.

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