This is political. Who doesn't support an aquarium.

No Hate Campaign (click here).

...We would encourage people to take a moment to realize the effect that their words and actions have on others.  Regardless of the reason, it's never okay to bully somebody for being different; and that includes those who might not agree with you.  Calling people names and vilifying them is not going to help anybody, anywhere; and we hope that from this point on, people will take that into consideration before they tweet, post, or say anything hateful and hurtful....

The Republican Party has lost it's moral compass.

This is very bad politics that victimizes innocent people, including children. This is the politics of hate that divides people into groups allowed to hate. Hate is a powerful tool since Trump turned it loose with his victimization politics. That is all this is, hate, nothing more. Hate is being used as a political driver to send people to the ballot box. 

What is so incredibly stupid about people that hate for the purpose of politics is that those leading with the permission of hate will turn on the very voters that put them in power. Trump turned on the people of the USA when he entered idiotic ideas like injecting bleach to end the pandemic. His entire handling of the pandemic from the Oval Office was a disgusting display of hate in the worst possible content of a pandemic when people are supposed to strive to survive it and not succumb to it. Trump can take credit for all those that perished in the USA. This country had the highest infection rate and death rate in the world. There is conscience in that at all. Nor is there a conscience in DeSantis' politics.

June 16, 2023

By Dave Berman, Eric Rogers and Jim Waymer

Gov. Ron DeSantis (click here) on Thursday vetoed a $2 million state budget appropriation for an aquarium that the Brevard Zoo plans to build at Port Canaveral.

Florida Rep. Randy Fine, R-Melbourne Beach, had encouraged the governor to veto the funding, which had been in the 2023-24 state budget that the Florida House and Senate unanimously approved on May 5.

Fine's rift with zoo came in the wake of a controversy involving Fine renting the Nyami Nyami River Lodge at the Viera zoo after zoo hours on Feb. 27 for a political fundraising event for his 2024 Florida Senate campaign.

The event drew a crowd of protesters angry over the south Brevard County legislator's stance on transgender issues and push to ban certain therapies for transgender children.

Opponents of Fine at the time questioned whether it was appropriate for such political fundraising events to be held at the zoo. Following the backlash, Brevard Zoo Executive Director Keith Winsten had said he was recommending the zoo no longer rent event space to political campaigns after the 2024 election cycle. The decision would rest with the zoo's board of directors; no policy changes have been made....

Here is the other end of the spectrum.

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