‘This was a terrible idea’: the incident that broke Republicans’ DeSantis fever | Ironically named Great Outdoors Initiative that would pave over acres of state parks sent steadfast allies over edge

whose achievements during the more than five years since DeSantis was elected governor have been largely limited to rubber-stamping his hard-right agenda, lined up to denounce the projects. Many noted the plans had been drawn up in secret, with no-bid contracts destined for mysteriously pre-chosen developers outside the requirements of Florida law.

Oh my god that sounds like the American version of what was Doug Ford's Greenbelt Development Plan...

It's not "ironically named," it's misleadingly named. This bullshit is never on accident.

Thousands of environmental advocates and activists swamped multiple state parks on Tuesday in a day of action to protest against not only the ravaging of broad swathes of wildlife habitat, but DeSantis’s lack of transparency and intention to limit public comment to only one hour at each state park during meetings that would be held simultaneously. [emphasis mine]

Desperately trying to pin blame elsewhere for a misadventure that was very demonstrably his own, he continued: “This is something that was leaked. It was not approved by me, I never saw that. It was intentionally leaked to a leftwing group to try and create a narrative.”

Oh, poor Ronnie boy! Did someone try to do something behind your back, you nazi fuck?

“The DeSantis administration is very tightly controlled and micromanaged from the top down, so the thought that he wasn’t aware of this or didn’t support it, or that somehow the people in those agencies would have pushed a huge plan like that without the governor’s knowledge or support, it’s just ludicrous,” said Aubrey Jewett, political science professor at the University of Central Florida’s school of politics, security and international affairs.

Oh no! You did this to yourself, you pudding-fingered asshat!

Has he tried calling the State Parks Woke yet? Free Thinking Republicans will LITERALLY HATE ANYTHING if you call it Woke! Black People? Woke! State Parks? Woke! Their own Children? Woke!

Forgot to lead with "Trees make you gay." Rookie mistake.

“But right now, your normal allies on the Republican side are giving you just as much grief as anybody else, and it’s entirely self-inflicted. You step on a rake and boom, the handle comes up and hits you right on the nose.”