During an event at the Reagan Library in California, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took the opportunity to torch California Governor Gavin Newsom and the left’s “moke mind virus.”
“I know you’ve got a lot of problems out here, but your governor is very concerned about what we are doing in Florida… so I figured I had to come by,” DeSantis said at the beginning of his remarks.
🔥👀Governor DeSantis ROASTS Newsom at the Reagan Library in California:
"I know you've got a lot of problems out here, but your governor is very concerned about what we are doing in Florida… so I figured I had to come by." pic.twitter.com/0xFLrHaMHb
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) March 5, 2023
From Fox News:
DeSantis said Reagan “understood the vital role that government had to play” and how it could be a “negative force if not applied properly,” and he governed Florida with that same understanding throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
“And I think if you look over the last four or five years, and you look at the performances of individual states, and you compare Florida versus California, New York, Illinois, some of those other states, we have had a great experiment, a great test in governing philosophies,” he said. “Because, of course, you know, we approach things much differently in Florida than you guys have out here, much differently in Florida than they’ve done in New York and in Illinois.”
“And if you look over the last four years, we’ve witnessed a great American exodus from states governed by leftist politicians imposing leftist ideology and delivering poor results, and you’ve seen massive gains in states like Florida, who are governing according to the tried and true principles that President Reagan held dear,” he continued. “From the beginning of this state’s history, all the way until the last four or five years, people beat a path to California. You didn’t beat a path away from California. And yet now, you see the state hemorrhaging population.”
DeSantis said Florida became a beacon of freedom when states like California became a “biomedical security state” due to outside pressure based on political ideology instead of data.
“And I can tell you, we had families move from the Pacific coast just for the fact that we had schools open in Florida, when you didn’t have them open in many other states,” he said. “We did things like ban vaccine passports in the state of Florida. States said, ‘You want to go stay in a hotel, go to a restaurant, you got to cough up your vax papers on these mRNA shots.’ And we said that’s none of their business. Everyone has a right to participate in society. That’s a personal choice that you make whether to take that or not, and we’re not going to let you be excluded.”
“Now, what ended up happening because we did that, one of the things that ended up happening was in 2021, Florida set a record for domestic tourism,” he said. “If you compare the change in tourism in California from 2019 to 2021, California tourism declined by 22%.”
DeSantis also shared where he thinks liberal states are going wrong with “woke.”
“I think these liberal states have gotten it wrong and why are they getting it wrong? I think it all goes back to ideology,” he said. “And it goes back to this woke mind virus that’s infected the left and all these other institutions. I mean, think about the way they have governed their states.”
More over at Fox News:
DeSantis said in a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library Sunday that people are leaving California for Florida where the state is "governing according to the tried and true principles that President Reagan held dear." https://t.co/z7PlqH2N96
— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) March 6, 2023
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