FL Paper: How DeSantis Illegally Killed Ballot Measures

From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel editorial board:

DeSantis became the first Florida governor to swipe millions from lawsuit settlement money intended to help victims of opioid addiction just so he could push an anti-pot agenda. Credit him for erasing reality from the financial impact statement accompanying Amendment 4 and using Heritage Foundation supplicants to instead produce a horror movie screenplay intended to confuse and distract voters.

DeSantis is the first Florida governor to threaten TV broadcasters with criminal charges unless they stopped running ads he didn’t like. He’s the first governor to send his election police to knock on the doors of Amendment 4 supporters and the first to employ a last-ditch “investigation” of signatures gathered to get that amendment on the ballot. And credit, too, DeSantis for hiring just the right kind of election police.

Read the full editorial. As the paper points out, both measures passed with majority support and DeSantis “only had to shave off a few points” from the required 60% margin.

DeSantis breaks the rules to kill two amendments | Editorial https://t.co/XR9VSzmn3K

— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) November 6, 2024