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"it wasnt the politicians who have families, it was the lobbyists"
fuck you 1000 times.
the politicians vote. they voted for this. name and shame them.
if they dont like it, they should not have voted in favor of hurting human beings on behalf of big business.
For the people with no desire to click:
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Too lazy to look up everyone, but all votes against were from Democrats: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Senate
Floridians outraged by shameful anti-worker heat law. Here’s how it happened
The GOP, under Mitch McConnell, abandoned all policy issues in favor of just being literally against anything the Democrats are in favor of, under any and all circumstances.
The GOP ramped up the already simmering culture war against immigrants to ridiculous extremes during the Trump administration and conditioned their base that open racism is now acceptable.
The GOP realized that these same immigrants are the ones that do the majority of the fruit picking, landscaping, carpentry, etc., often outside in the scorching heat for 12+ hours per day.
Big businesses, capitalizing on the new-found racism streak in the Republican party which is further amped up in Florida already, lobbied lawmakers to block any and all laws regarding heat management in the state so they could save a few bucks.
Republicans in the state, seeing an opportunity to both make a fuckton of money in ~~bribes~~ "campaign contributions", stick it to brown people at the same time, and make the newly emboldened racist voters in their state happy and therefore more likely to re-elect them, gleefully jumped at the chance to oblige.
That's how it happened. Anything else is a lie.
I was thinking it was just the moronic pro business part like with COVID, but combining that with racism makes total sense.
The Florida playbook. Vote for a piece of trash and then complain about the results.
"It's all these Californians moving to our state!"
Is the answer Republicans?
Yes, and the lobbyists and businesses which fund them.
The answer is the Voters of Florida.
The voters of Florida constantly voting in idiot Republicans
hahahahahahah "I'm shocked to find gambling going on in this establishment!" "Your winnings, Sir" "Thank You, Thank You Very Much"
Floridians are so upset at their Republican Christofascist Representatives they will continue to show their acute displeasure by re-electing them all
Ron DeSantis.
Is this some sort of elaborate plan to continue to get rid of immigrants and illegals? Make shitty work environments so they'd leave the state?