None. Repeat: They don’t have to ask FDOT to light anything.
Misinformation is not your friend.
DeSantis’s ‘Freedom Summer’ means no rainbow lights for Florida bridges
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Misinformation is not your friend.
So what is the need for legislation that requires red, white and blue?
Search skyway bridge lights pride…any combination will give you dozens of news sources explaining the situation.
I can set aside as much time as you need. I’m free to help you search for news sources, as well.
I’m not aware the Leg passed a bill but if you are aware of that please share the info.
That's fair I misspoke.
What is the need for the ORDER that requires the lights be red, white and blue?
WOW. The Pride Community here rustled a HUGE group of almost two dozen people who made magic marker signs and walked across a bridge for two local news stations.
No one was asked how they survived before bridges were lit.
Reasonable people do not consider the U.S. flag to be political.
As to the rest of your point, do federal, state and local government entities celebrate hetrosexual pride month, fly a hetrosexual flag, light bridges celebrating heterosexuality, etc? No they don't, because that would be ridiculous. Government entities shouldn't be involved with this.
How long were heterosexuals banned from getting married, or treated like 2nd class citizens?
Solid comparison, dipshit.
I'm guessing he's also wondering why we don't have a white history month.
What does that have to do with anything? Why are you changing the focus to the protests instead of the new policy?
Same reason there arn't a lot of people celebrating heterosexual pride.
Why are you still harping on the colors red white and blue being exclusionary?
Too funny. Play dumb, get shown your errors, change subject, move on. Typical
Specifying that only these colors may be used during a time that just so happens to coincide with pride month is a clear move to try to tamp down on what local governments do to show their support.
When he's picked for the job by the very idiots I mentioned previously, it's not a strong argument. He's a Trump lapdog. And y'all love it. You can think that's impressive, but the thinking public is laughing at you.
“Thinking public”
That’s a contradiction in terms right there.
All you need is some mean girls "I used to be pretty" and whining about how people throw insults out while also throwing out insults and you've hit the Goldie bingo.
If DeSantis could he would. He is a batshit crazy little pissant.
Others - like some gun rights group - had put in a request too. THAT scares me more, frankly.
The Pride display is new and it was beautiful last year.
People took their kids down to the riverfront to see it.
It’s an attempt to hit a reset button and bring all of us together as Americans.
So all of these posters on HROT except those who live in FL are “thinking” geniuses?
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He's way better than Trump. RDS does the stuff Trump only poop truths about. RDS scares you because he's proof that you can govern with real conservative principles and be successful.
He won parts of the state Republicans don't win. You should stick to being a doctor wherever you are because you obviously wouldn't be happy here.
Whew. you’re trying too hard. FAIL.
“Play dumb”? WHO are you? Einstein?
Get shown my errors? You mean my OPINION is different so I’m in error?
Lingering effects of altitude sickness Rocky?
Oh wow. I was blessed to be fairly attractive in my younger days I guess (or so I’ve been told by my Mom) so thanks. And I suppose I could be dismissed by some who judge on a message board as a mean girl.
If that means I push back then heck yeah.
I plead guilty. I will always stand up for myself, cause sometimes that’s how you get through life. Again my parents brought all four of us up to take care of ourselves.
If you’re more accustomed to being around more passive women I’m sure you find me shocking. That’s okay.
I'm not sure he could identify what a woman is, especially a strong, beautiful one.
It is literally all he does when he isn't living out of state for months at a time spending his donor's money on a failed presidential campaign
From what I read it wasn't a gun rights group, it was anti gun violence group that asked to have their colors displayed.
You didn’t understand the issue, even though it was in the OP and numerous articles. Still not sure you actually understand the facts. Opinion is irrelevant here.
Here's the quote from article I referenced in my earlier post about anti gun violence colors being rejected.
In a Feb. 13 email from the office of Manatee County Administrator Charlie Bishop, administrators were informed that Rahn approved of displays for the Alzheimer’s Foundation, National Ovarian Cancer Month and others, but the chairman “will not be approving lighting of the Skyway for Pride Month or National Gun Violence Awareness Day.”
Another quote about some of the issues will not be able to be commemorated with bridge lights this summer:
By installing a patriotic light display that will run for months, all the different displays that had been planned for the summer were scrubbed, including ones honoring Mental Health Awareness (May 28-31), Juneteenth (June 19) and Ovarian Cancer Awareness (Sept. 1-7). Others that were close to getting approval were Sickle Cell Awareness Day (June 18), World Fragile X Day for autism (July 22) and Pride (June 20-28).
I was trying to avoid the national media's tendency to spin issues so I looked for a local source. It's an informative article about the events that led up to the change restricting bridge colors to red, white, and blue this summer.
Lights on Skyway Bridge won’t show rainbow colors for Pride Month. Why?
A Manatee County commissioner disapproved of Pride and gun violence recognition. Instead, the state will have three months of patriotic lights on the bridge it is calling “freedom summer.”
It needs to prioritize lighting up bridges rainbow colors all month to celebrate people because of their sexual attraction/presentation?
I mean... it seems pretty low meaning either way.
I think we've seen plenty of over response by DeSantis. But the 'woke' left sort of went crazy and caused it to happen.
