re: Rep. Byron Donalds eyes Florida Governor bid- Jan 18, 2025

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If he's smart he'll wait until 2030
No Dem is winning in 2026

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Why would someone wait a term if it's prime for the picking? Seems like whomever wins in 2026 will get 2 terms, so Moskowitz, would be waiting until 2034.

Anyone young with a good future, should give it a run to get the experience and name out there. Like vivik did. Just don't step on your own prick.

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JJNoles, link please.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-gop-rep-byron-donalds-and-desantis-allies-clash-over-states-new-black-history-curriculum/

I remember the dust-up, I just didn't remember Donalds being part of it.

DeSantis said he didn't write it but backed it. Christina Pushaw compared Donalds to Kamala.

Enough said...

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Florida should 'correct' controversial slavery curriculum, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds says


Rep. Byron Donalds speaks during a news conference on March 10, 2023 in Washington, D.C.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, the only Black Republican in his state's congressional delegation, this week pushed back against new history curriculum that requires teaching middle school students that Black people got some personal benefits from skills learned while they were enslaved.

On Wednesday, Donalds tweeted that although the new African American standards in Florida are "good, robust, & accurate…. the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted. That obviously wasn't the goal & I have faith that FLDOE will correct this."

Last week, the Florida Board of Education approved the controversial new Black history standards, which included "benchmark clarifications" such as one for grades six-eight that "instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

The revised standards have drawn outcry from Democrats like Vice President Kamala Harris, who went to Florida last week to denounce them in a speech that DeSantis dismissed as "ridiculous" and "outrageous."

Donalds, an ally of former President Donald Trump, is a notable Republican speaking out against the guidelines.

His statement was quickly challenged by some other officials in Florida and aides to DeSantis, reflecting how the local controversy has now also become an issue in the Republican primary.

Christina Pushaw, a DeSantis campaign spokeswoman, responded to Donalds' criticism by tweeting to ask if "Kamala Harris wrote" it.

Florida's Department of Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. argued against Donalds' statement, saying that "the new curriculum is based on truth."

"We will not back down from teaching our nation's true history at the behest of a woke White House, nor at the behest of a supposedly conservative congressman," Diaz wrote on Twitter.

Jeremy Redfern, the press secretary for DeSantis' gubernatorial office, contended on Twitter that Donalds was repeating a "false narrative" from the Biden White House.

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Patronis will be in the House so he won't run

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I just don't see him in an executive position.

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I just don't see him in an executive position.

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I think he could have been ok but he's from up here in the Panhandle and that would be tough when running for Gov

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DeSantis said he didn't write it but backed it

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It was written by a black guy

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Christina Pushaw compared Donalds to Kamala.

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She was right

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Why does Casey DeSantis trigger you so?

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Some people think everything the paid influencers and bloggers posted was the gospel

Christina Pushaw gyrated it all up: comparing Byron Donalds to democrats Biden/Harris. She contributed to the ruin of DeSantis. But DeSantis backed her being a part of Zelenskyy's reign in Ukraine...

It has been reported that DeSantis and Byron Donalds were close until Byron Donalds endorsed Trump over DeSantis for President in 2024.

Then add in the Susie Wiles catfighting between Casey and Susie and Florida politics is as cutthroat as it gets.

Casey is only saying donors are asking her to run, just to spite Byron Donalds.

Susie Wiles will win and as the current COStaff of Trump DeSantis world is fuming.

Gaetz is going to end up in "special projects" in the justice dept or an investigator at the FBI once Kash is confirmed.

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Christina Pushaw gyrated it all up: comparing Byron Donalds to democrats Biden/Harris. She contributed to the ruin of DeSantis. But DeSantis backed her being a part of Zelenskyy's reign in Ukraine...

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Be less gullible