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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presents himself as a conservative culture warrior with a strong legislative track record, but a new analysis finds his reputation for competence nothing but "a Disney-esque fairy tale."
The Florida governor likes to boast about legislative wins in the Republican-dominated statehouse, but Washington Monthly columnist Bill Scher argued that putting points on the board with that vast majority isn't quite the same thing as achieving positive results for his state.
"Mere enactment is not competence," Scher wrote. "The more pertinent question is whether DeSantis has shown the foresight to use those majorities to craft good legislation that helps his state prosper. Or did he use them to pass legislation that looks good to Republican presidential primary voters but will backfire on Florida voters?"
The most glaring example is the governor's vengeful feud with Disney, the state's largest employer, over the company's objection to the DeSantis law prohibiting classroom discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation.
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"The 44-year-old governor was so proud of his retribution that 'The Magic Kingdom of Woke Corporatism' is a chapter in his bestselling campaign book," Scher wrote. "But DeSantis was sloppy. In February, Disney signed a contract with the outgoing local government to preserve its powers, and a hapless DeSantis didn’t realize he’d been had for weeks. The new board, all gubernatorial appointees, nullified the contract in April."
Disney sued the state and canceled a planned $1 billion office complex, which would have brought 2,000 jobs to Florida, and Scher said that's just one example of DeSantis choosing short-term political gain over long-term prosperity.
"If Mickey Mouse can give DeSantis the runaround," Scher wrote, "Republicans may ask, how will he do against Xi Jinping?"
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Evan Corcoran, the attorney tasked with helping former President Donald Trump find classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to turn over to comply with a Justice Department subpoena, was "steered away" from searching the former president's private office by aides, which turned out to be where many highly classified documents were being kept, reported The Guardian on Monday.
"[Corcoran] recounted that several Trump aides had told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the White House at the end of Trump’s presidency ended up being deposited," reported Hugo Lowell. "Corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. He then asked whether he should search anywhere else but was steered away, he told associates. Corcoran never searched Trump’s office and told prosecutors that the 38 papers were the extent of the material at Mar-a-Lago."
"The assertion that there were no classified documents in Trump’s office or elsewhere proved to be wrong when the FBI retrieved 101 classified documents months afterwards, including from the office, which was found to be where the most highly classified documents had been located," said the report. "Corcoran’s previously unreported account, as relayed to the Guardian by two people familiar with the matter, suggests he was materially misled as the special counsel Jack Smith examines whether his incomplete search was actually a ploy by Trump to retain classified documents."
The report does not specify which aides to Trump waved him off searching in the former president's office — and a spokesperson for Trump denied the allegation, saying, "This is completely false and rooted in pure fantasy."
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All of this comes amid reporting that special counsel Jack Smith is nearing the conclusion of the Mar-a-Lago documents case, which legal experts have suggested could result in federal criminal charges for the former president.
In addition to this case, Smith is also investigating the former president's involvement in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis is investigating Trump and his allies for election interference in that state, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought charges against Trump for falsifying business records in the alleged $130,000 hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
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After the flame is lit in the traditional ceremony in Olympia, Greece, it will arrive by sea in Marseille aboard the three-master Belem on May 8.
From there it will travel across France on its way to the Olympic opening ceremony in the capital on July 26.
There has been speculation that the Olympic flame will be placed on the Eiffel Tower, but the president of the organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, told a press conference the final destination had not been decided.
"The Eiffel Tower has not been decided as the lighting location for the cauldron," he said.
A novelty this time is "collective relays", which could be groups of up to 24 people, with one carrying the torch.
There will be 3,000 collective and 7,000 individual torchbearers, including equal numbers of men and women aged 15 and over.
Each torchbearer will carry the flame for around 4 minutes over a distance of 200 meters.
A third of the torchbearers will be selected by the organizing committee and the sports bodies, another third by relay sponsors Coca-Cola and French bank BPCE, another third by other Olympic partners, and the final 10 percent by the regions hosting the relay.
The International Olympic Committee forbids elected officials and religious figures carrying the flame.
Some French departments refused to take part, deeming the 180,000-euro ($193,000) cost prohibitive.
The organizers said there would be "an itinerant bubble" of security around the flame provided by the French gendarmes, police and local security forces.
The Paralympic torch relay, which will arrive in Paris on August 28 for the opening of the Paralympic Games, will involve 1,000 torchbearers, and will be shorter.
The record for most torch bearers is 20,000 ahead of the Beijing summer Games in 2008. That relay passed through 19 countries, where it was carried by more than 1,300 bearers, before reaching China. It covered a total of 85,000 miles on its 130-day journey.
For the last Summer Olympics in Japan in 2021, the Olympic torch relay was banned from public thoroughfares in many departments, including Tokyo, because of Covid. For the same reason the relay ahead of the 2022 Winter Games was reduced to three stages in Beijing.
At the London Olympics in 2013, 8,000 people relayed the flame.
(AFP)
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