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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.

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

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 76 points 11 months ago

It's called "vocal minority". If you pander to the vocal minority, the silent majority is going to eventually get pissed about it.

Republicans finding that out all across the board. Not to detract from the school board but how many sleepy democrats woke the fuck up when Roe was repealed? They finally pandered enough to the extremists the majority is pissed.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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 31 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Well he already lost against Disney, so he needs a new hobby.

[–] Hptyhop84@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Pudding fingers can't help himself to all that kids pudding treats

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 11 points 11 months ago

Thankfully, both of the DeSantis and Mom's for Book Burning endorsed candidates in our school board elections lost significantly. I think that leaves 2 voices that are more concerned with their conservative indoctrination than actual educational instruction. Hopefully they get kicked next go round. One of the websites flaunted the candidates politics, GOP-endorsements, and overall "look how anti-woke I am, boy howdy!" and never once mentioned anything about the kids. Such losers.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

It’s be terrible if he broke a heel on his boots and fell down stairs

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I never did like Rhonda Santis

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Weird loser

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Was he running for school board?