Bootsy DeSantis has quite the dilemma on his hands. He knows Amendment 4 will be a catastrophe for Florida’s Republican Party, and he’s ordering fellow Republicans to follow him over the edge of that cliff. I don’t think they’re gonna go for it. I think they’ll wait until after the election, dig through the wreckage, and see where the real power centers are. Via the South Florida Sun Sentinel:
Gov. Ron DeSantis is demanding that elected Florida Republicans join him in opposition to the proposed amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. And he wants some of their campaign money to help fund the effort to defeat Amendment 4.
DeSantis laid down the political law for Republicans on Saturday night in Broward County: His party’s elected officials must publicly oppose the proposed referendum on the November election ballot. Some haven’t, which DeSantis depicted as a sign of weakness.
“It’s important that all of our political leaders, you know, stand up and be counted. Right now. You know, there’s some people that just, it’s like the political winds. Like if the winds are against you, you run and hide. That’s not leadership, that is not what’s going to make this state great,” DeSantis said. “You’ve got to stand up even when it’s not easy, even when you’re taking the arrows, stand up and do what’s right.”
