The Florida governor's opponents say the losses represent a rejection of his education agenda.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18900805

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suffered a string of defeats in school board races in several counties on Tuesday.

The Republican governor, who has sought to reshape his state’s education system by regulating how schools deal with subjects such as race, sexual orientation and gender, threw his support behind 23 school board candidates last month.

A majority of those candidates lost their races on Tuesday.

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“People want sanity. People want common sense. And people believe we should educate everyone,” Long told The Associated Press. “The people have spoken.”

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
    331·
    3 months ago

    I can’t imagine a governor, let alone a governor of a state as populous as Florida, inserting himself into fucking school board elections. Ron, don’t you have anything better to be doing, like, at all? Really? This is the best way to serve the public in your post as governor? What a nincompoop.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      311·
      3 months ago

      For him and many other Republicans, undoing the public school system is a high priority.

    • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      Your first mistake was assuming that bigot with shoe inserts will do something logical

    • SoGrumpyEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Upvoted just for nincompoop. I haven’t heard that in decades.