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Hello and welcome to Monday.
Ticking away the moments So here we are yet again 55 days of the annual Florida Legislature session gone and just five days of wall-to-wall action left.
Different from the rest It’s been an extremely odd session by all accounts as the Capitol has remain largely closed and a fair amount of deal-making was probably done in nearby restaurants and bars rather than the nearly-silent halls.
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY The local Republican Party rolled out a litany of speakers Saturday pushing conspiracy theories and election denial, headlined by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, before at least 300 people at an America First Rally.
The controversial event at the Indian River County Fairgrounds & Expo Center was condemned by the Indian River County Democratic Party.
It drew an excited crowd of conservatives wearing Trump paraphernalia. They often stood to applaud charges that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
“No matter how upset you are about the presidential election and no matter what you’re seeing in the news,” Greene said, “it’s not over. You want to know why? I’m there. And guess what else? This is bigger. All of you are here.”
VERO BEACH Controversial, conspiratorial U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is coming to Vero Beach April 24 for an event hosted by the Indian River County Republican Party. Congresswoman Greene is excited to join the Indian River County GOP to share her America First vision for the country, spokesman Nick Dyer said in a statement to TCPalm.
The event 8 a.m. at Wilke s 14 Bones BBQ, 1500 U.S. 1 is private, Indian River County Republican Party Chair Jay Kramer said. He declined to comment on the event.
The local GOP has not publicized the event on its social media or website.
Greene, a first-term Georgia Republican, is known for her opinions about a stolen presidential election, anti-Semitic comments and support of the conspiracy theory QAnon.