https://thinkprogress.org/gillum-desantis-attack-ads-hurricane-michael-florida-midterm-elections-735ec8b9f59e/
Florida’s Republican Party continued airing ads as Hurricane Michael made landfall, attacking Gillum for his handling of 2016’s Hurricane Hermine, which left much of Tallahassee without electricity. DeSantis’ campaign has notably taken a leading role in assisting with crafting the ads.
Ahead of the storm, Gillum announced he would halt campaigning to focus on addressing the needs of Tallahassee. Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday as a life-threatening Category 4 storm, the first time a storm of such strength has ever hit northwest Florida. Over a million power outages are expected across the coast as well as further inland and officials have warned that any residents who have not evacuated are in extreme danger.
Candidates traditionally suspend attack ads during natural disasters, but that hasn’t been the case in the state’s gubernatorial race. Two ads supporting DeSantis that have been running for at least two weeks continued to air into Wednesday, reaching those inside of Hurricane Michael’s strike zone.
DeSantis on Tuesday, however, dismissed criticisms of the decision to air the ads as well as the addition of a new attack ad that same day.
“You run your campaign the way you run your campaign. It is what it is,” DeSantis said in Tampa. “We’ve had all this planned out long before and we’re going to stick with our plan so people will see that unfold in the next day or two.”
But following widespread criticism, Florida’s Republican Party said Wednesday afternoon that it would pull the ads, according to Politico. That decision came after former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator and Florida Emergency Management Director Craig Fugate called on “all Florida candidates” to pull such ads, in direct response to the ads targeting Gillum.
That's the most meaningless sentence ever devised.
“I’m just going to continue being a cunt while people are dying. It is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
Ron DeSantis is one of the cuntiest Republicans of the post-Trump era. He wrote a book called Dreams from our Founding Fathers, in it:
in which DeSantis screams at President Barack Obama for 286 pages, implies he is a closet Marxist, and at one point writes that Obama has "Muslim roots."
DeSantis rails against former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who once said the Founding Fathers were hypocrites for creating a so-called free state that allowed slavery.
DeSantis castigates Marshall for stating the Constitution was "misguided from the start" for allowing slavery. DeSantis says Marshall's opinions "miss the mark" and that it's somehow unfair to the Founding
Fathers to call them out for keeping slavery legal when the Constitution was written in 1787. In fact, DeSantis dubiously argues, the Constitution was actually good because it set up a system in which slavery was
eventually "designed to fail."
Most notable, DeSantis repeatedly rails against laws designed to protect women and uphold gender equality. Specifically, he repeatedly attacks Obama for supporting the United Nations' Convention on the
Eradication of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. DeSantis included this tidbit in a screed otherwise dedicated to yelling at Obama for complying with international UN treaties, which DeSantis argues
are against the wishes of the Founding Fathers
He also writes that Obama's 2009 post-economic-crash stimulus package included $300 million "to 'combat' violence against women." The sarcastic quotation marks around "combat" are his.
He also writes that he opposes UN protections for individuals with disabilities. And elsewhere in the book, he delves into pure anti-Muslim racism by arguing repeatedly that President Obama capitulated to Muslim
nations. DeSantis accuses him of repeatedly "showcasing his father’s Muslim roots and his middle name of 'Hussein'" to look good to Middle Eastern countries.
As American Bridge already noted, the book is also chock full of inaccuracies. Most of the lies relate to Obama, including a false claim he was the "only president" to remove the words "endowed by their Creator"
when talking about Americans' "inalienable rights." In reality, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan did the same.
Here in the Netherlands one could call it a Steurism - one of our former ministers, Ard van der Steur, was known for his filler sentences which adhered to the formula "x=x".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwIExmtkrNM
Jesus Christ. I was going to vote for Gillum regardless but what an asshole. Who would vote for this guy?
My parents, unfortunately.
It's not like stopping adverts during hurricane is gonna safe any lives
Never said it would, but showing a modicum of decency during a natural disaster would sure make him look less like an asshole.
It's considered a matter of decorum though. In this case it's particularly shitty because the ads being run are criticizing Gillum's handling of a prior hurricane that struck Talahassee.
Mine too. They see the attack ads claiming Gillum wants to raise taxes and their opinions are all "Maybe Desantis is racist, but Gillum wants to take our money and drive businesses out of the state and that'll ruin our economy".
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