Anti-LGBTQ Ex-FL Rep Denied Seat On College Board After Threats To Expose Crimes Of Florida GOP Reps

April 15, 2025 Infighting Is Funny, Republicans

Florida Politics reports:

The Senate Higher Education Appropriations Committee has unanimously voted down appointing former Rep. Joel Rudman to the Pensacola State College Board of Trustees. The Navarre Republican faced trouble from the committee based on comments he made on a recent X Spaces chat. Senators said the apparent threats to expose or embarrass lawmakers if he wasn’t confirmed would not be tolerated.

“There’s no way you can read those comments and, with a straight face, tell people that they weren’t intended to intimidate and influence the Senators on this panel,” said Sen. Tom Leek, an Ormond Beach Republican, “and that is something I cannot abide.” The comments in question included remarks that lawmakers had committed crimes, along with assertions that he knew embarrassing details about elected officials serving in the Legislature.

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Rudman resigned from the Florida House earlier this year for a failed bid for Matt Gaetz’s US House seat. His final act in the Florida House was a failed bill that would have banned “illegals” from filing lawsuits on any issue.

Rudman, a medical doctor, first appeared here in April 2023 for his bill allowing doctors to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients and others on the grounds of “conscience-based objections.” DeSantis signed his bill into law in May 2023.

He appeared here in December 2023 for his bill that would end the three day waiting period to buy handguns.

In February 2024, we heard from Rudman when he introduced a bill that would ban venues from canceling artists over inflammatory posts made on social media.



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