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Showing Original Post only (View all)I sent the Florida Chamber of Congress an email last evening explaining that as long as [View all]
DeSantis was their governor, we would not be spending any of our time or money in their state. I told them I could not justify taking any of my family to a state where there were people who claimed the legal right to gun them down if they scared someone or run them down in the street if they were thought to be protesters.
I closed by telling them that California and Hawaii also have beaches and they are still civil democracies, not third-world autocracies.
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I sent the Florida Chamber of Congress an email last evening explaining that as long as [View all]
Atticus
Apr 2021
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I did mention that, judging from the way the DeSantis handled covid vaccinations, we could not be
Atticus
Apr 2021
#4
So, we should just keep our mouths shut? I had no illusions that my one email would
Atticus
Apr 2021
#6
Florida is a very large state. Many people working in many different industries...
mac2766
Apr 2021
#13
There ya go again! You actually read the entire OP, used common sense and then typed
Atticus
Apr 2021
#33
You're the one calling folks "bigots"! You're CLEARLY the angry one here!
MerryHolidays
Apr 2021
#42
And I just realized you're calling several of us "hypocrites" too, in addition to "bigots"
MerryHolidays
Apr 2021
#43
The CoC is who you tell that you wont be opening any new offices of your business in FL
ZonkerHarris
Apr 2021
#12
Also when the cruise industry re opens I will not leave on any cruise out of florida
kimbutgar
Apr 2021
#15
Most excellent. I will do the same. They don't know that I had no intention of ever going there.
niyad
Apr 2021
#28
This could be the beginning of a mass movement - to write to the shit states' politicians.
Rabrrrrrr
Apr 2021
#31