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Last night, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the Trump Mini-Me who may run against Biden and/or Harris in 2024 if Trump stays out and the political gossip rags get their way, appeared on Laura Ingraham’s show. There, he regurgitated the latest wingnut talking point, that the jurors in the Chauvin murder trial were intimidated into convicting the killer cop:
Ron DeSantis on Chauvin s jury conviction: If that s something that can potentially happen, where you have justice meted out because the jury is scared of what a mob may do not saying that s what happened here … [but] that s completely antithetical to the rule of law. pic.twitter.com/fBDDCxmiQd
Gov. DeSantis signs online sales tax plan
Ron DeSantis, at a press conference at Mote Marine Laboratory, waits as Joe Gruters speaks.
Gov.
Ron DeSantis has signed the online sales tax bill into law, answering the question of whether he would act on the bill or let it roll into law without his John Hancock.
Lawmakers
passed the bill earlier this month, finalizing Republican legislative leadership’s plan to require online retailers to collect sales tax. An estimated $1 billion in revenue would come from the new enforcement of sales taxes technically already owed on purchases Floridians make from out-of-state sellers, but which few Floridians pay.
PORT ORANGE While many people are still recovering from the vitriolic 2020 election season, two local elected officials have already made decisions about 2022 races.
Port Orange City Councilman Chase Tramont is running for the Volusia County Council District 2 seat that will be up for re-election next year. And Billie Wheeler, who has held that post since she took it over in January 2017, has decided not to seek re-election in 2022.
Both Tramont and Wheeler went public with their decisions Friday afternoon on separate local radio talk shows. In interviews with The News-Journal earlier this week, both said they re happy with their decisions.