Bummed as I was when Ron DeSantis bowed gracefully out of the presidential scrum, it was nice to have arguably the finest chief executive in fifty states back home in Florida running things full-time.
He hasn’t taken a breather to recuperate from the campaigning either, plunging right back into the business of keeping FL humming along.
The legislation he announced support for today, though, is kind of funny in its own right if you think about it in a national context. It’s a shot sent squarely across the bow of California’s soft-on-crime, unctuous Randall Flagg clone, Gavin Newsom.
FL state Rep Bob Rommel (R-Naples) – originally a New York native who won’t go back because of the crime – has introduced a bill hiking penalties for retail theft. And not only does it target these retail gangs hitting stores in swarms, but porch pirates are also included by substantially lowering the…
