Although it will be hard to top this:DeSantis admits defeat in threats to cut pay of school leaders who impose mask mandateshttps://t.co/SwLgxssYRY
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 12, 2021
According to DeSantis, the penalties against the superintendents will be on the "honor system." He said that it will be "on them" to cut their own pay."Those officials should own their decision — and that means owning the consequences of their decisions rather than demanding students, teachers, and school staff to foot the bill for their potential grandstanding," DeSantis' press secretary Christina Pushaw, told he Miami Herald.
Now that's bold and decisive decision making there!
No doubt. Harris County (Houston) has now sued to be allowed to issue a mask mandate. Going to be interesting to see if the Texas Supreme Court backs Abbott to the hilt. That could be highly problematic.I think it's very early. It can get much, much louder.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 12, 2021
DeSantis confronts growing resistance over COVID-19 handling https://t.co/L4CqWUWucE
Sorry to bury the lede, but this is may (or many not) be what prompted DeSantis' change of heart:
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 12, 2021I'm going for "may." And I agree: double "ugh." With nuts.
If it's any comfort to you, Paul LePage is talking about running again and it's a safe bet that if he does the Republican-fascists will nominate him and the Greens and other loons on the ballot has some chance of handing him the election, depending on whether or not we can get the friggin' state constitution changed to allow ranked-choice election of the governor. If he'd been governor in Covid we'd be Florida in the North East right now.
ReplyDeleteMy sole comfort (and it isn't one) is that this whole school debacle, which is a boiling pot that Abbott keeps turning the heat up on while hoping he can keep the lid held down, is going to explode all over his re-election ambitions. I don't think parents are going to forget this, and it may well get the "urban" vote to turn out against him in 2022.
ReplyDeleteBut all the suffering to get that far; it ain't worth it. It won't repay that. The cruelty really is the point. Whether we demand accountability for that cruelty, that's the question. If it's directed at the "wrong" people, something may actually give.
But I don't really take comfort in that expectation; not even hope. My hope is that this disease begins to abate before too many more suffer short, or worse long term, consequences.