Critics of the late bigoted discuss radio host Rush Limbaugh are livid that Florida’s GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is honoring the person with an order to fly state flags at half employees.
“What we do when there’s issues of this magnitude, as soon as the date of interment for Rush is introduced, we’re going to be decreasing the flags to half-staff,” DeSantis mentioned at a political rally Friday in West Palm Seaside, reported the Tampa Bay Occasions.
“Rush busted by a media panorama by which a handful of media retailers served up pre-cooked, liberal narratives,” DeSantis mentioned earlier this week. He impressed a “loyal military of American patriots,” the governor added.
Limbaugh, who lived in Palm Seaside, died Wednesday of lung most cancers at 70. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump final 12 months.
“Rush Limbaugh weaponized his platform to unfold racism, xenophobia and homophobia throughout the nation,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) tweeted Friday in response to the governor’s choice. “DeSantis’ choice to honor him is a humiliation to Florida.”
Gary Farmer, the Democratic minority chief of the state Senate, slammed the governor for taking the motion as a “partisan political software” slightly than as a software of recognition for individuals who “have honorably and bravely served our state and our nation.”
He added: “Any transfer to decrease our flag in deference to a person who helped drive the hatred and inflame the prejudices in opposition to marginalized teams, individuals of colour, ladies, and anybody who didn’t seem like him or assume like him is mistaken, and must be rescinded,” Farmer mentioned in a press release. “This isn’t who we’re. This isn’t who we wish to be.”
DeSantis’ order would seem to interrupt the state’s personal Flag Protocol. State flags are to be lowered solely on sure holidays honoring veterans; if a gift or former governor of Florida dies; if an energetic service member from Florida dies; if a outstanding state official dies or if a regulation enforcement officer is killed within the line of responsibility.
A constituent might formally request that flags be lowered for another cause, nevertheless it wasn’t instantly clear if that occurred on this case.
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