Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appoints Moms for Liberty co-founder to state Commission on Ethics

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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, to the Florida Commission on Ethics on Wednesday.

Tina Descovich was named to the nine-member, Tallahassee-based commission, which investigates alleged breaches of public trust by elected and appointed officials, as well as state employees.

The group’s support for school choice and the “fundamental rights of parents” to direct their children’s education has also drawn allies such as the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Moms for Liberty has been labeled an “extremist” organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly harassing community members, advancing anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation and fighting to scrub diverse and inclusive material from lesson plans.

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And just think who he will appoint to various positions if he ever becomes president!

Be sure to fight amongst yourselves and bicker why one group is ever so slightly more or ever so slightly less left of center than yourself, and not focus on the fascist in the room.

Remember to stubbornly focus on the small differences between us, and not on the massive threat that the far right is to our democracy.

Be sure to refuse to fall in line behind the party and the individuals who can stop this, and instead use your one precious vote on some 3rd party candidate who has a 0% chance of winning and is only running to act as a spoiler.

if he ever becomes president!

I think he's screwed that pooch at this point.

Yeah, ok. People were saying similar things about Trump too.

"He has no chance"

"He'll never win"

Trump wasn't polling where DeSantis is polling.

If you think literally anything happening right now means anything, then you have a whole lot of learn about American politics. We aren't even at the pre-game yet, let alone the primaries and eventually the general election. There are going to be so many twists and turns till next November, that no one is even going to remember what happens now.

What twists and turns have there been so far? Because all I've seen is Trump dominating the field way beyond anyone else and DeSantis falling behind the others.

The whole point of twist and turns is that we won't know their coming! LOL

You have a lot to learn.

Again- what twists and turns have there been so far?

What part of "we won't know what will happen" don't you quite understand?? Do you think politics (or anything, really) is a straight pre-determined line? If that was the case, then why have primaries or even general elections? Apparently no unexpected things ever happen.

The first twist has been the emergence of Vivek. There will be many more.

That wasn't a twist at all. He did well in the debate because he talks a good game and DeSantis, as expected, sucked because he has specifically one topic, "wokeness," and he's a terrible public speaker. I have no idea why you think that wasn't absolutely predictable.

I'll never listen to someone who unironically tells me to "fall in line". You have absolutely no clue how to talk to the audience you're supposedly addressing.

Also... lol @ blaming this shit on green party voters when you neolib moderates can't even get 50% of your own base to vote consistently. Maybe instead of constantly blaming everyone else for your failures you should look in the damn mirror for once. Try funding your local party orgs instead of abandoning them. Stop blindly supporting the establishment leaders who repeatedly fail to invest in local winning strategies because they're only interested in keeping themselves in power.

You won't do any of that though. It's so much easier to blame leftists every time you lose to a Republican. You'll never take responsibility for your own failures as a party and that's why we've gotten to the point we have today.

You've been totally outplayed by Republicans on the ground and all the bitching and moaning about leftists in the world will never change that.

"green party"

LOL oh that's rich. The party that was playing the spoiler for Russia. Congrats on falling for the Russian misinformation game.

Third parties had abysmal vote counts in the last two elections. You would think terrible candidates would improve third party turnout, but no, it just makes more people vote for their lesser of evils.

Idiot. I vote for Democrats in every election. I never said I vote for the green party.

Every election it's the same story. Democratic GOTV efforts are next to non-existent and then when you lose by 1% you blame the fucking green party members, who will never vote for you, and leftists for costing you the election.

You don't try to fund your local parties. You don't try to organize GOTV at a meaningful level. You don't try to understand why people aren't motivated by Democrats. The scale of the GOPs ground operations is orders of magnitude better funded, better led, and more energized than Democrats.

But you just fall for this stupid intentionally divisive bullshit about leftists supposedly not voting while your national party leaders raid the coffers for their own reelections and pet projects. Then wonder why elections against the fascists are so close.

It's not because leftists aren't voting for you. It's not because voters are stupid. It's because Democratic messaging and outreach are SHIT and they don't even understand their own voters.

I mean, that, and there are people like me who voted for them for years for reproductive rights reasons. If you can’t even get a right to birth control codified in the 20 years I’ve been voting, you aren’t effective enough to run the country. Thing is, it’s a candidate’s job to excite voters, and a party’s job to get them to the polls. The only duty a voter has is to vote. Besides, if the Dems actually gave a shit about the left voting for them, their policy would probably not be alienating leftist voters by blaming them every time the Dems fail.

We need fundamental rights for children from their parents.

To these types, a child is something you talk about, not with. None of these people blindly screeching "for the kids!" have ever had a meaningful conversation with a child about what they actually want.

They talk “parental rights,” because to them, kids are private property, not small, undeveloped people.

Ugh. My kid was in the same school as Tina’s for a few years. Back then she was just some PTA nut job selling Choffy

Of course. What a fucking clown show.

So they're now appointing neonazis? Great look for America

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Ron DeSantis appointed a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, to the Florida Commission on Ethics on Wednesday.

Tina Descovich was named to the nine-member, Tallahassee-based commission, which investigates alleged breaches of public trust by elected and appointed officials, as well as state employees.

The group’s support for school choice and the “fundamental rights of parents” to direct their children’s education has also drawn allies such as the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Moms for Liberty has been labeled an “extremist” organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly harassing community members, advancing anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation and fighting to scrub diverse and inclusive material from lesson plans.

Along with Descovich, DeSantis also appointed South Florida attorney Luis Fuste to the commission.

Another vacancy on the ethics commission was created in June, when former member Jim Waldman’s term ended.

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