Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was the first U.S. governor to announce he would oppose and block any attempt to make vaccination passports a requirement for any engagement with state government or private enterprise. DeSantis then signed an executive order temporarily and proactively blocking any effort to require proof of vaccination.
Today, the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill (SB 2006) to ban the use of COVID vaccination passports. This bill will now reconcile with a Florida Senate bill that carried the same intent.
Good job Florida!
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – With a key lawmaker saying he recognizes that vaccine hesitancy is “real and understandable,” the Florida House on Wednesday approved a measure that would limit local emergency orders and make permanent Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order barring COVID-19 vaccine “passports.”
The House voted 76-40 to approve the proposal (SB 2006), which Pandemics & Public Emergencies Committee Chairman Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach, said would prepare Florida for the next public-health emergency while striking a “delicate balance between protecting people and protecting people’s civil liberties.
[…] The Senate passed the bill last week, but the measure needs to return to the Senate because of changes made by the House.
DeSantis on April 2 issued the executive order blocking COVID-19 passports, which he said would create “huge” privacy issues that could result in people handing over medical information to a “big corporation.”
“It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in normal society,” DeSantis said before signing the order. “If you want to go to the movie theater, should you have to show that? No. If you want to go to a game, no. If you want to go to a theme park, no. … I think it’s something that people have certain freedoms and individual liberties to make decisions for themselves.” (read more)
Do we love our Gov—YES we do!!!
Note to transplants—DON’T mess this up!!!
Don’t forget Soros-bot Gillum came within a hair’s breadth of winning.
Kinky Gillum, fueled by more coke than a dreadnought.
That can be said of any progressive/moderate/libertarian.
Absolutely love that. I will be stealing it for my own use 😀
And running around naked with other guys in a hotel room. Ewwww!
I shudder when I think of how close we were to that.
Yes. It’s appalling.
Only answer: Divine Intervention.
I’d like him better if he hadn’t extended the emergency order, thus continuing to give the tyrant county mayors the ability to keep harassing businesses into enforcing their mask mandates.
He’s the best governor in the country.
Easily!
He is a million % better than the Louisiana governor.
Better get on that. Let your voice be heard.
He seems to be learning from Trump and Trump WOULD remove an emergency order if the people demanded it.
Edink,
A quote from Governor DeSantis.. “Vaccines should be AVAILABLE to ALL, and MANDATORY for NONE!! (mic drop..)
I thought, “If he just threw that “off the cuff”.. THAT is a man I want “governing”!!
I say TRUMP/FLYNN 2024 (Please let us keep Mr. DeSantis as long as we can, America?)
Then DeSantis/Powell 2028 !!!
I’m almost afraid to curse it by writing it..
And yeah, PLEASE all of you kind (hopefully) freedom seeking, new citizens/residents of Florida (The Gunshine State), do leave any non-conservative compunctions @ the state line?
Thank you,
Best,
skipper
I’m with you, Skip.
DeSantis finishes his full term as Gov. and THEN he can run for Prez.
O yes I like your thinking. First Trump/Flynn then DeSantis. DeSantis should indeed finish his amazing term for Florida
“I’m not so sure about that. Trump is pimping the vaccine, he literally abandoned his supporters on Jan 6 and is still acting like they don’t exist, he declassified almost none of what he indicated he would, his cabinet was swamp personified, he kept Fauci, Redfield and Birx, Wray, Barr… I know everyone wants a hero, trump is not the droid you’re looking for.
edit: like elections matter anyway
WHICH OF THESE ARE NOT TRUE?
SIX BAD APPOINTMENTS ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT IN DC!!
(1) Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett (USSC) allowed the election fraud 2020.
(2) Barr, Wray (DOJ/FBI) allowed the election fraud 2020.
(3) Trump (President) allowed election fraud 2020.
(4) Pence (Vice President) allowed election fraud 2020
There was no law and order in his administration. ZERO~!!! By MaxmaxExtreme”
Your concern is noted.
Our President made a choice. Learn how to read between the thin blue lines.
I know what you mean! My husband called me on the way home from work this evening upset because he saw a New York license plate. I sure am hoping they are just visiting
Don’t NY my Florida.
LA liberals coming for ya too. They are mostly looking at Broward- I BEG them not to vote on local politics if they move- just national.
I’ll be down there by the end of the summer, and I can’t wait to vote for DeSantis. Multiple times if I have to!
MisterPasta,
If you are moving to Florida as your primary residence, please look up the Homestead Act? You should be eligible for SUBSTANTIAL tax breaks (provided you are buying your home).
Best,
skipper
Yep. No Carpetbaggers
This would be a monstrous start to get things back on track if all Republican Governors would do this.
Go Mr. DeSantis!
ALL Governors
You’re only keeping this if you keep his reforms in place. Dems had the Palm Beach cheating operation until he shut it down and they had to move to the 6 state steal.
What we need is a De Santis in every state, AND the WH.
Anyway, make sure you get a rock solid replacement before you let us steal him for president.
Send the transplants packing. They are a disaster to come.
This Trumplican will be moving to Florida in 3 weeks. leaving Maskachusetts in my rear view mirror for good. This healthy 72 year old will never get injected with an experimental drug that has unknown long term health effects.
I guess what needs to be done now is people that are active in local politics should present this bill to anyone running for office, and demand a clear stance on it before they get your vote. It should make rather clear if they would be worthy of your vote or not.
This and a few (several?) more things.
DeSantis is leading the way in showing Americans what they should expect out of a Gov.
Let’s go, Texas! Follow the LEADER!!
Let’s go, California! Follow the leader! —————————–Gavin Newsom yells you need a passport to go outside while drinking a beer through his face mask.
I hate the “leaders” of this state, I’ll just keep resisting and calling them out every chance i get.
Resist, real California! I love your state and your history. You live in an earthly Paradise. Please take it back from the loons and this native Floridian will move and help you to keep it.
Best way is become a Hells Angel there is no other way.
Shouldn’t even have to come down to this. HIPPA rules state that your medical history is private! Have HIPPA laws been removed?
So basically… HIPAA is not what you think it is. Your medical provider will have you sign forms whenever you get a procedure stating that you agree to allow them to “share information” with those they deem important, “in order to provide for your care, billing”, etc. When you’re a new patient, that form is normally included in the new patient documents and stays in your file. It’s nothing for them to share your information with “the state”. Electronic Medical Records also made your information just a few keystrokes away from whomever “shares information”. If you want health insurance, the insurance company can deny you coverage based on your health information – they ask for your social security number in order to run their checks. HIPAA is useless and means nothing. I found that out a very long time ago. HIPAA has been weaponized.
Madame Peasant: True. HIPPA was designed to facilitate sharing of your data between other individuals and entitities, and not to protect your privacy.
I’ve always signed those forms ‘do not agree’ in script…no one ever checks those signatures – not at the physicians office, the pharmacy or hospital
At least in SC, you can cross out any part of a doctor’s office form to which you don’t agree, and sign. I’ve taken advantage of that a fair few times. In my experience, people don’t make enough stink about permission forms, even when they disagree – I am apparently the only parent to refuse consent that the apartment complex where we live could take photos of my minor children and disseminate the photos how they please. It was a huge deal when I wouldn’t consent to that and they considered evicting us over it.
You could try seeing if your state has an exemption where you can cross out parts of forms to which you don’t consent.
At my checkup a few weeks ago I had to keep saying “I don’t think that’s a medical question. No answer. Stick to medical questions.”
The RFRA should not have been necessary, either, but the LGBQWERTY have been assaulting the COTUS/BOR since 1947.
Gosh, if only we had a Republican like him here in NC instead of the milk toast Democrat follower of all the other Dems!!
Agreed. Tell me about it. In Dare county we had entry blocked for several weeks because of this. Just like after a hurricane. We have RINOs running Dare county.
If only all states had a governor DeSantis!!! RINOs are barely any better
Breaking the dark little hearts of commies everywhere.
Don and Ron 2024
Good job Gov DeSantis. Nice to see a RepubliCAN for a change of pace.
He’s better than a Republican.
A Big Thank You to our Florida Legislators!!
Much as I’d like to clap, and do a little as a knee jerk response, we’ve seen how much the Communists ignore current law and get away with it due to the corrupted legal system so you can bet your bottom dollar that they’ve already foreseen this kind of response and worked out an offensive for it, and they’ll get help from the judiciary as/where/when needed. Good on DeSantis though, common sense.
Myself, no worries, not really an issue where I live but I have no problem leaving humans to die who interfere with my freedoms. That ship sailed a long time ago. They’re worthless to me. The enemy. Too many decades of BOTD, taking the high road and turning the other cheek. Now they get what they’ve long deserved. A lesson.
DeSanist is a common sense MAGA conservative Trump without the Media made “Hate”. The Libtard Communist Democrats will have a harder time demonizing DeSantis. The “I don’t like Trump” will be too obvious when saying “I don’t like DeSantis” excuse.
It will be very easy categorizing the Communist traitors among us for the Anti-Americans they are.
Northerners ruin the South by bringing their demokkkrat beliefs with them. Build a wall around NY.
And what about the 37.3% of New York voters who voted for Trump in 2020?
They can move to Florida fast as possible to shut out the others.
It feels like “Make America Great Again” is starting to devolve into “Make the South Great Again.”
“Evolve”, Giant.
Evolve, not Devolve.
Especially if you’re lucky enough to live here. hehe.
I love the copperheads. I do. However, as a 13th generation Southerner I cannot undo the legacy of distrust and sheer hatred. Reconstruction did not ONLY hurt the slaveholder. Prove me wrong. (Good luck.)
Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature is Leading the Way, Setting The Standard that MUST be followed by ALL Republican Governors and Republican State Legislatures moving forward. It is Our Only Hope to Restore Our Constitutional Republic.
What a real Governer!! Wish he was mine in Delaware. We have Dem compliant gov Carney. I repeatedly contact his office about opening up our state & ditching the Illegal face diaper edict – for even 2 year olds! Good grief I call it child abuse when I see the lil kiddos & moms compliantly masked up. So very sad. I pray Lord help us all
On Monday of this week 6, yes folks died of the plague.
Or had it within a week of their death.
Likely “ fatties” diabetics or other compromised individuals. Or folks over 80.
6 Yes 6 out of a population of over 60,000,000.
What a scam!!
Guess what. One has to dig to find that #
Cheers to Governor D?
Covid BS is to stop the cruise industry in order to punish the Governor. Anger the people to turn on the Governor.
Not going to happen. Covid is a bad cold virus and who hasn’t had a bad Cold.
Seriously thinking about packing the family up and moving to Florida in a couple months.
Do it and don’t look back.
We are looking into spending a few winter months there.
We have prepared for retirement and no longer are interested in California.
So Florida looks terrific.
Florida is too hot for me
7 months out of the year.
One summer was enough for me.
Plus someone has to not run off like a coward and stay and fight behind enemy lines..
I have a Retarded Goofytoothed Governor to heckle when the opportunity presents itself.
I’m in SC, I’m used to the heat. Call me coward if you like, but with three small children to keep in mind I’d rather they grow up in freedom rather than hunkered down under a RINO.
This is true. Potential Floridians need to visit in July/August especially and discern whether they would suffocate without AC The heat is intense, but the humidity is more than intense
You won’t regret it ???
This needs to be made international and apply to every activity including transportation and housing and commerce. Free people should not have to submit to being made lab rats in order to participate in the normal functions of society.
Amen!!! Could not agree more! I am horrified at how many otherwise intelligent people I know who are willingly going along with this nonsense, but then, I am usually the only one at the grocery store without a face diaper even though no store employees ever say a word to me about it! Actually, a couple have privately thanked me for taking a stand! Most of the other customers don’t even notice, a few look curious, and a few glare (one said that “people like me” should not be allowed to live!). Whatever….
Most of the time, this is how it is for me. However, today I got mostly glares and obnoxious loud talking AT me about not wearing a face diaper. I ignored them because I don’t want to go to jail. lol.
Expect FBI/DOJ to come after DeSantis.
They’ve sent their media first.
You can make book on it.
The more I read about the “vaccines” (a complete misnomer as they are nothing of the sort) the more we should actually be looking at halting these experimental and risky trials of brand new medical technology.
A friend has just got off his sick bed (over a week) from the 1st shot and had all sorts of spontaneous bleeding. And many are complaining of the same sort of thing….
zero pity.
Thank you & other Florida legislators for defending our Rights in this Constitutional Republic.
All conservatives wanting to move to Florida, do it, we need you to offset the crazy lefties that will come here!
And this my friends is a precursor to THE DOMINO EFFECT!
LET.THEM.ALL.FALL.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND PATRIOTS WORLD WIDE!
Vail School Board Flees, Parents Elect New Board, Vote To End Mask Mandate | KNST AM 790 | Garret Lewis (iheart.com)
“Hundreds of parents showed up to the Vail School Board meeting to demand the board make masks optional. The board didn’t want to hear it so they walked out of the meeting before it even began. So the parents, under Robert’s Rules of Order, voted in a new school board. Then, the new members voted to end the mask requirement in Vail Schools. The old school board members revealed exactly who they are and that includes GOP LD 10 Chairman, Chris King.”
That’s what I’m talking about!
FL hit it out of the park today. They also passed
HB -259.
A proposal that would let people with concealed-weapons licenses pack heat at churches or other religious institutions that share properties with schools is heading to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Alleluia
Great going, Gov DeSantis!
Does anyone know what is going on with RINO DeWine and Ohio’s GOP legislature in getting this done???
He is gonna be my next president. Yee-haw.
Good job, nothing to prevent full employment in FL. Fauci and company can pound sand.
Those of us here in Kentucky wish we had a real governor instead of the pos we have.
What a great governor! Wish Ohio gov wasn’t such a RINO! But could be much worse at least we’re not in Michigan, NY or CA!
I truly wish we had Ron DeSantis here in Nevada. Instead, we have Sisolak’s disease.
I want to move to Florida….from Canada.
See a lot of Kay-Beckers on the Space Coast during the winter.
BEST GOVERNOR,
GO, Ron!! Best gov ever….
Protecting the tourism industry from the branch covidians is a smart move. Now, everybody knows that it is safe to plan a vacation to a Florida beach….and I think a lot of people, perhaps even CDC employees, will be doing just that.
Didn’t Herr Whitmer travel from Michigan to Florida last month under the radar? Rules for thee but not for me, huh, Gretchen?
Rainy afternoon in Kentucky …
Go DeSantis !!!
Thank you Ron DeSantis. Up until this news, was having a very dark day.
Your Freedoms protected..a really good day for Americans…
All Conservatives want a DeSantis Governor. The pendulum swing will gain momentum post haste. Trump will be in the oval office by the end of the year followed by DeSantis 2024.
The politician landscape will change. Politicians will be required to serve the people. The day of get rich quick and screwing the American people will come to an end.
History will look back and see Biden/Harris administration with its Communist takeover of the United States as a very dangerous bump in the road. Probably 80% of all politicians need to be systematically purged over the next 4-years.
DeSantis shows that we can win with strong people. We need more victories big or small.
Looks like there will be a bastion of freedom as our republic dissolves.
The sad thing is that is was only 76-40, that means 40 clowns want vaccine passports (I’m assuming all Dems).
It is sad and yes Communist Democrats, but it is a victory. It is the victory with strong people. It is up to the “Useful Idiots to get on the train or remain at the station.
If you are a Libtard you have no rationale, judgment or commonsense. Only this time you get left behind. Libtards are dysfunctional emotional wrecks. Otherwise they would not be Communist Democrat slaves. They either catch-up or fall in the dust.
Real Floridians should rebuild the government and culture of the state and the nasty left will leave. Send them back to their blue shizholes. Do not even acknowledge COVID’s existence and move on with life. We Tennesseans are in the process of doing that as well. Gov. Lee is not leading on the issues like DeSantis, but our legislature is and has been for some time. We the People took over and are booting the uni-party out of the state an election at a time except for our couple of blue city shizholes.
Does this law also prevent employers from requiring employees to get whatever medical treatment is deemed necessary?
Great! Now every red state should do that. I am waiting on Gov. Abbott.
Every red state Governor should insist on a similar bill ASAP and use an EO until the bill is passed! Also, whoever wants to beat Gruesome Gavin should make this position front and center in their platform, along with overhauling the entire election system, and dismantling the entire network of environmentalist nutjobs whose policies have cause the massive fires that have hit Cali for the past decade!
Sad that so many will leave instead of confronting the enemy at home. There are more of Us, we know this. Save your own home and your own State. We are fighting here in FL. We have our Rubio’s and Scott’s so there is much to do. Free all States. You are always welcome but come prepared to fight for Liberty if you stay. Just sayin’
You got a great governor down in Florida!
I was down there a few weeks ago in Key West. Loved the sport fishing! Those kingfish fight hard and taste great!
If someone gets the shot, and they think it protects them, then why do they care that I didn’t get the shot?
Freedom movement starting all over the country.
AZ School board – parents crashed their party and insisted no masks; the board resigned, parents elected new board. Now that’s the way to do it!
https://ktar.com/story/4361993/arizona-school-board-ends-meeting-when-parents-protest-mask-mandate/
This is how you fight the Communist at the local level and it goes up from there. Instead of; whining, crying, woe is me, were so screwed, yada yada.
Did the previous Board resign, or just abandon the meeting?
I may have to transfer..
I knew of a bungalow.. near the beach.. Panama City Beach..
This Minnesotan likes cold weather.
But I like freedom even more.
We may end up moving to Florida or Oklahoma. I heard they are working to become a gun owning sanctuary state.
We have cold weather, for a month or two sometimes.