Another Florida School District Bucks DeSantis By Nixing Mask Mandate Opt-Out | Talking Points Memo

The hits just keep on coming for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

Leon County Schools superintendent Rocky Hanna on Sunday announced that the school district’s mask mandate is now mandatory, ending the option for parents to opt their children out. The district’s new mandatory mask mandate makes exceptions for medical reasons and defies DeSantis’ ban on school mask mandates.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1385361

DeSantis is not willing to have his kids in public school, and the private school they do attend has a mask mandate. When will his sheeple wake up and smell the coffee? Ron wants you do as he says and not as he does.

39 Likes

The same is true for Doug Ducey in Arizona- he also has kids in a private school that requires masks. “Phoenix’s Brophy College Prep requiring masks, vaccines for students.
The private school, where Gov. Ducey’s children attended, is implementing vaccine requirements that contradict the state’s new rules.” (From Channel 12 News, Phoenix, Aug 5)

29 Likes

…the school district’s mask mandate is now mandatory, ending the option for parents to opt their children out.

Department of Redundancy Department approves this approval. If a mandate is not mandatory, is it a mandate?

24 Likes

Why this is not a commonly distributed item of information eludes me. The only reason I can think of is that this information comes with a Jim Phelps admonition that the receiver of the information will self-destruct in 15 seconds… :grimacing:

@lastroth’s first post

12 Likes

As reported by the AP press.

8 Likes

De Santis has to be wondering why it was okay for Trump to kill hundreds of thousands, but not okay for him to threaten the lives of and kill little children. May his political ambitions die on a hill of ignobility and shame.

Not only is he despicable and beneath contempt, he’s also pretty stupid. He’s apparently forgotten Trump lost, largely due to his reckless disregard of Covid.

27 Likes

As radical as red state Supreme Courts are, they’re now in the very awkward position of following their citizens on this issue or being thought illegitimate. They have to be hoping their Governors back down rather than force the issue. Or, perhaps, try to find a mechanism to avoid making a direct ruling, as the Texas Supreme Court has done, at least temporarily.

15 Likes

Sadly, he is not stupid; Yale & Harvard educated.

6 Likes

Which makes him all the more contemptible. Very few things more dangerous than a smart person of low character.

25 Likes
25 Likes

Being educated at Yale or Harvard does not make one smart. Especially when one’s daddy paid to get you in there, and kept paying to try and educate this moron called DeSantis!

16 Likes

Obviously DeSantis had a brain wipe after he graduated.

6 Likes


This is the picture that needs to be out.


If we have to scare the bejeebus out of people then so be it. (I do realize that this is the worst pix that I could find that went with a story about people getting monoclonal antibody treatment, but if it gets the job done…)
20 Likes

Joy Reid had a segment on that. I think she was actually begging on video for that Regeneron.

5 Likes

If Obama (or Hillary) had been at the helm when COVID first appeared as a danger, we would have had millions of fewer deaths worldwide.

There has got to be something special about a mentality that is OK with that.

17 Likes

No admonition is necessary, as DeSantis’ political career is self-destructing as we speak.

20 Likes

“But we see,” you say, and so your sin remains.

4 Likes

I don’t quite get it. How is this defying DeSantis? It’s basically saying “wear a mask if you want”.

He is intelligent enough to track the movement of the republican primary voter mindset off the cliff to the right of Hitlertown.

8 Likes