Florida’s Attorney General, Ashley Moody, was on Daniel Horowitz’s podcast today talking about pressuring the feds to follow the law and deport Hamas-supporting foreign students. She also talks about feds violating immigration law.
https://megaphone.link/BMDC9156313182
Special session results
The Governor signed three pieces of legislation from the special session last week. From the press release:
This legislation puts sanctions on Iran and protects Jewish Day Schools in addition to providing aid for Floridians impacted by Hurricane Idalia and expanding Florida’s Family Empowerment Scholarship for students with unique abilities. The legislation also allocates $181.5 million to the My Safe Florida Home Program to help lower the costs of homeowners’ insurance for Floridians.
CS/HB 1C – Disaster Relief
HB 3C – Family Empowerment Scholarship Program
HB 5C – Scrutinized Companies
Medical freedom bill proposed (SB402)
Meetings already started and the bills to be discussed and passed during the 2024 session are already being introduced. One of special interest to medical freedom proponents is SB402, introduced by Senator Clay Yarborough (District 4; Nassau & Duval Counties). The bill proposes more changes to the public health emergency statute (381.00315)
The good:
- Removes vaccines as a treatment
- Makes it harder for indefinite emergencies; only get 60 days. Governor can extend for 30 days. After that, you need 2/3 of both legislative chambers to extend 30 days at a time
- “Individuals may refuse examination, testing, or treatments for reasons of health, religion, or conscience” and “may be required to undergo examination testing, or treatment”
- Removes language that “State Health Officer may use any means necessary to treat the individual”
The bad:
- To refuse examination, testing, or treatment, you have to submit a refusal in writing to the State Health Officer… that would never be used to develop a list of political enemies, could it?
- Those who refuse examination, testing, or treatment “may be subjected to isolation or quarantine”
- Still doesn’t define “significant morbidity or mortality” which suggests none of these people paid attention in 2020. We need to specify something outrageous like a 30% case fatality rate in order for any additional powers to be granted to state health officers. At that point, people will isolate voluntarily.
No state funding for ALA
Joining several counties that decided to stop funding the American Library Association, the state’s Division of Library and Information Services (part of the Florida Department of State) issued a new rule that forbids any grant activities to the ALA this year.
Sorry for the Fox News link, but it’s the first one that came up in a search.
Election fraud
You can question elections if you’re questioning the right political party. Florida State Attorney’s office (20th Judicial Circuit) charged Cape Coral City Councilmember Patty Cummings with felonies related to the 2022 election.
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-state-attorney-charges-cape-202614273.html
Surprisingly, the article doesn’t mention that Cummings is a registered Republican.