Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races

Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races

The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has launched a political action committee that is targeting popular ballot amendments on abortion access and marijuana legalization that will be voted on in November.

The group, known as the Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May, Politico first reported. The committee is chaired by James Uthmeier, DeSantis’s chief of staff who was previously the Republican’s campaign manager during his unsuccessful presidential primary run.

In addition to targeting ballot initiatives, the committee will get involved in school board races, Politico reported, citing an individual who is familiar with the group’s plans.

Florida Republicans have attempted to maximize their political control of local school boards, especially amid book bans and far-right education laws banning discussions of race and sexual identity being passed in the state, WUFT reported.

    • clover@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      From the man who ran the “Never Back Down” campaign and was nearly the first to do so…

    • dmtalon@infosec.pub
      4·
      5 months ago

      Came in to say exactly that… The Irony is thick, and likely unfortunately lost on people that will approve it.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
      4·
      5 months ago

      Ive noticed that almost every “freedom”, or “patriot”, named thing related to politics do just the opposite

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 months ago

    As we all know, legal weed is super unpopular and every ballot initiative to legalize it fails because of that and Republicans never have to do any sort of legal tricks to cancel that out, so this will work for sure.

  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    Don’t understand why it’s legal to make a PAC and have your chief of staff head it.

    To be fair I don’t understand why PACs are legal at all, but whatever.

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 months ago

      I can tell you one legit reason for a PAC. Public employees can not take campaign funds directly, so if a teacher wanted to run for local office, it’s a campaign finance violation for them to accept money directly. That means they need a PAC to accept donations for them, and the candidates can use that money for campaign related things.

      PACs at their core are not bad. How they are used to influence our elections by the wealthy is.

  • nnullzz@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    Let’s see the mental gymnastics on this one, because I know quite a few hardcore republicans that loooove themselves some weed.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Let’s see the mental gymnastics on this one, because I know quite a few hardcore republicans that loooove themselves some weed.

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit

      So those hardcore week smoking republicans want to be in the first group, and want everyone else to be in the second. If weed was legal it would collapse both into a single group. Republicans don’t want that.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
    1734·
    5 months ago

    women’s rights and cannabis are shunned by both parties

    democrats chose a catholic who is on record stating he lives by the good Catholic book which includes no contraception and a prosecutor who has used Biden’s laws and policies from his time as a career politician to lock away cannabis users

    the Demopublicans will win this election no matter which party wins and the losers as always will be the people

    And the one thing they say about Catholics is: They’ll take you as soon as you’re warm