A.G. Gancarski
The Florida House of Representatives has passed a road designation bill that will name a street after conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
HB 21 includes language first proposed by Sen. Blaise Ingoglia to name a stretch of Cortez Boulevard between U.S. 41 and S.R. 50/50A in Hernando County as “Rush Limbaugh Way.” Democrats in the House objected to the measure adding the Senate language, but to no avail.
Rep. Lindsay Cross was the first to ask whether the Limbaugh language was in the House bill, leading to objections.
“Why are we keeping that in the bill?” asked Rep. Anna V. Eskamani.
Rep. Tyler Sirois said the road designation bill offered an “opportunity” for House and Senate members to “bring forward a designation for someone we believe is deserving of that through their contributions to the community,” with legislators able to decide if “that is appropriate.”
Sirois noted Limbaugh “passed away in Palm Beach of lung cancer” and donated “millions of dollars in charity.”
He noted the amendment “reflects the initial designations that occurred over in the Senate.”
Rep. Yvonne Hinson noted the original bill was to just honor former astronaut Sally Ride.
“I think I want to know now, how did it get changed and how many people are in this thing?” Hinson said.
The answer to the second part of the question is 19 bridges and roadways were named after people in the bill, most of them memorials to law enforcement officers. If the bill is signed, a second astronaut, Christa McAuliffe, will have a bridge over the Canaveral Barge Canal in Brevard County named in her honor. She was heralded as the “first teacher in space” and died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
Rep. Bruce Antone said he would vote for the bill, with objections.
“I started listening to Rush Limbaugh in 1991, during Desert Storm. The machine gun, the feminazis the racist remarks … I’ve just got a real problem designating a road after a racist,” Antone said.
Rep. Rita Harris, who originally co-sponsored the bill when it was just honoring Sally Ride, likewise objected.
“Someone who said, ‘We didn’t have slavery in this country because it was a bad thing, quite the opposite. Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark,'” she recounted.
“We’re going to honor this man?” Harris added. “Nah.”
Rep. Angie Nixon added, “racism and wanting slavery to still be in existence is not a political issue, and if you think it is one, you need DEI training.”
“The disrespect has to stop,” Nixon added. “I can’t believe that we are honoring a racist. That’s ridiculous in and of itself. And you wonder why we don’t want to break bread with you all, because you want to support and endorse racism. That’s ridiculous. And calling it a political issue? That’s a moral issue, through and through.”
Nixon later tweeted a dig at one of her Republican colleagues.
“Alex Andrade alluded to racism being a political issue and that it’s OK to honor a racist like Rush Limbaugh by naming a portion of a Florida Highway after him because we shouldn’t let politics play a role in transportation designations.”
In a text sent at 2:27 a.m. on Thursday, Andrade responded: “I never mentioned Limbaugh. WTF is wrong with (Nixon)?”
Despite Democratic objections, the bill passed on a 87-25 vote. It is likely that Gov. Ron DeSantis, who ordered flags flown at half-staff when Limbaugh died, will agree to this designation. In the wake of Limbaugh’s death, DeSantis lionized him.
“He had me on when I was running for Governor,” DeSantis said on a cable news hit. “I was getting the tar kicked out of me every day and he had me on the week before the election in 2018. He didn’t have a lot of guests. I was honored to be on his show a couple of times.”
DeSantis noted in another appearance that Limbaugh likely would have been iconic even if he had not embraced conservative rhetoric and market penetration techniques.
“He would have been great in radio even without the conservative thing. He’s just that talented. Obviously he was a conservative icon up there with (Antonin) Scalia, (Ronald) Reagan and (William F.) Buckley,” DeSantis said, invoking the conservative trinity of the former Supreme Court Justice, the Republican President of the 1980s, and the father of the postwar conservative movement.
Rush. R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/ztP6JylfmO
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) February 24, 2021
74 comments
SteveHC
May 3, 2023 at 7:02 pm
“ Gov. Ron DeSantis…ordered flags flown at half staff when Limbaugh died” – Pretty much says it all. NOT someone who deserves to be Governor let alone President.
Steven
May 3, 2023 at 8:02 pm
Rush Limbaugh was one of the greatest Patriots that ever lived and loved this country and to speak I love him at this point in life shows what an idiot you
Dino
May 7, 2023 at 1:26 am
Well Said SIr!
Dittohead
May 7, 2023 at 3:13 am
Ditto’s!
Pilgrimage
May 8, 2023 at 6:15 am
I already dropped a brown one on his grave.
If for some god forsaken Reason I ever end up in Florida I’ll make sure to find a sign to finish the second part now lol
Buck
May 6, 2023 at 10:26 pm
Why is that exactly? Are you low-life scum America hating liberal lunatic commie piece of shit?
Brian
May 6, 2023 at 11:09 pm
What a positive guy you are SteveHC. Who would you rather have in office? The current circus we have? I’m sure you hated Trump but he was one million times more successful as president that Joe Biden and his administration have been. We’ve seen nothing but failure after failure since he got into office. From destroying our energy dominance to opening the flood gates at the border to ignoring the fentanyl crisis here, to being wrong on the economy, virtually every decision he’s made has weakened this country. Afghanistan withdrawal, allowing Chinese spy balloons to collect information on our military bases, bringing us to the brink of war with Russia and WW3 (your side claimed Trump would do that). He’s a failure for this country and always will be. DeSantis is a far better option than JB who’s obviously suffering from dementia. If you cast your vote for him again this next cycle you’ll be guilty of elder abuse. He should be retiring not running the greatest system of government humankind has ever seen.
Denis Desautels
May 6, 2023 at 11:34 pm
In your opinion, that doesn’t count. Rush was the best talk radio host of all time. Desantis is the best Florida Governor of all time. You deserve to be ridiculed.
And that’s all he did
May 8, 2023 at 6:22 am
The only thing rush did for me was improve my opinion of lung cancer and give me a few laughs watching his hair fall off lol
Carlos Danger
May 7, 2023 at 12:46 am
We have MLK streets everywhere and he’s just a dead polygamist.
Rush limpball
May 8, 2023 at 6:35 am
I haven’t seen white men this man since rush found out smoking kills lol
Truth Betold
May 7, 2023 at 4:06 am
I cannot believe you support the racist A.G. Gancarski! His extreme racism mirrors that of the Democratic Party and it’s bigoted and unbroken record of racist history…
Andrew Jackson was the founder of the Democratic Party, rising to power on the back of his “Indian removal” platform, (native genocide), and preservation of slavery… He organized the “Trail of Tears”, and the Democrats followed him from the Democratic-Republican party which they abandoned, for the new Democratic Party on the basis of his successes regarding “Indian Removal” (genocide), and his support of continuing slavery by creating new slave states to stack the representation in Congress, through a doctrine he called “Manifest Destiny”…
“The new integration plans being offered are really just quota systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school. That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with,” Biden said in a interview highlighted by the Post. “What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?” – Joe Biden
Jolene
May 7, 2023 at 5:23 am
Says the guy that supports the democrat KKK party! LOL!!
Jim1937
May 7, 2023 at 8:38 am
Go back to California or ILLinois or wherever you came from.
NorthernDude
May 7, 2023 at 8:50 am
You could always do what conservatives have had to do for years. Turn the channel. Don’t listen. You are all huddled up in the fetal position over a dead conservative while a semi-live liberal criminal moron resides in the WH destroying america and its citizens’ civil liberties. Not gonna buy the distraction…
WHY
May 7, 2023 at 9:36 am
unfounded nonsensical narrative
Bob
May 7, 2023 at 4:09 pm
You democrats really are ignorant & you unAmerican piece of crap must be the most ignorant.
Earl Pitts American
May 3, 2023 at 7:32 pm
Good evening America,
Our regular leftist dook 4 brains trolls may not choose to comment on the Rush thing.
But it does America good to know their heads are exploding over the naming of the road now and for the next 40 years when they drive their dumb @5S’s down Rush Road!
It is doubtfull dook 4 brains leftists will ever gain control of the Florida Legislature and rename it Andrew Gillum Road.
Thank you America,
Earl Pitts American
Steven
May 3, 2023 at 8:04 pm
Rush Limbaugh was one of the greatest Patriots that ever lived and loved this country and to speak I ill of him at this point in life shows what an idiot you
Doug SchexnayderPhD
May 7, 2023 at 2:29 pm
Yes, but lefties are full of allegations and opinions which are NOT evidence ever ever ever…
calling names and being potty mouthed is the demosheep approach….mean thoughtless democrat haters should quiet down …
Michael K
May 4, 2023 at 9:15 am
Ah yes, Rush – a vulgarian who derided women, Black people, LGBTQ people – and laughed all the way to the bank as he cashed in on his toxic brand of bigotry and hate. Of courser he is being deified by Florida Republicans.
Buck
May 6, 2023 at 10:27 pm
You’re an ignorant racist America hating liberal lunatic commie piece of shit.
JohnK
May 7, 2023 at 12:27 am
Precisely!
And you
May 8, 2023 at 6:26 am
And your name reminds me of every Republican that lives in a trailer and can’t afford curtains and food because they spent all the money they have on guns lol
Brother John
May 6, 2023 at 10:44 pm
Why is it you morons always make it so obvious you never — in 33 years — spent ANY time listening and all of it mouthing off?
Brian
May 6, 2023 at 11:13 pm
You obviously never actually listened to Rush Limbaugh. You formed an opinion through the unfavorable sound bite information fed to you through the people who feared the man.
Bruce Wayne
May 8, 2023 at 5:19 pm
Yep, you can always tell when they didn’t actually listen.
J West
May 6, 2023 at 11:40 pm
I am so enjoying your pain. Rush was the MAN.
You leftist losers are going to feel the backlash like you can’t imagine. We are the normal decent folks who have had ENOUGH OF YOUR ILK.
Mulch man
May 8, 2023 at 6:29 am
Rush was the man
Now? Well now he’s sober lol
Truth Betold
May 7, 2023 at 4:10 am
Your intense racism, bigotry, and virulent misogyny are on full display… You might want to tuck that in…
“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” – Joe Biden August, 2019
“Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this.” – Joe Biden
Biden also went much further than just opposing integration policies instituted by the Department of Education, calling it an “asinine concept” and saying, “I’ve gotten to the point where I think our only recourse may be a constitutional amendment.”
“I mean, you got the FIRST mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” – Joe Biden, (about Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Primary)
Ocean Joe
May 7, 2023 at 8:22 am
You left out Biden’s remark about Obama: “He’s clean! He’s clean!”
When Rush Limbaugh died, I didnt believe the stuff the left claimed he said, so I watched a few clips. He was an unrivalled scumbag. Trump owned the libs when he gave this thing the medal of freedom and totally demeaned the medal in the process.
You want Florida 1958 back again, and we got it.
Get those immigrants, bully the weird ones, and give the thieves who hand your hard earned money over to big business a pass as long as they let your hate back out of the closet. Then run to church on Sunday to remind yourself of who you think you are.
NorthernDude
May 7, 2023 at 9:03 am
Much preferred the cancel culture, the porn passed as sex education in the classroom and all the transactivism with a special carve out for a huge business organization, Disney.
Rush was a provocateur, no different than many of the idiot libs spewing affirmative action, pro blm and antifa crap and ignoring the lefts breakdown in law and order and use of lawfare as a weapon against those with whom they disagree. He was just on the other side.
The left has become intolerable and impossible with which to coexist. Separate the globalists from the populist/nationalists, build separate economies, minimize govt and see who lasts the longest.
While the left eats bugs, drives electric cars that will implode the electrical grid, swelters in the heat and freezes in the cold, the sane people will use fossil fuels as cleanly and efficiently as possible and teach their children how to survive in a meritocracy. BTW, have your elites sell their ocean front properties since the great sea level rise should be here tomorrow. Oh, and don’t forget to mutilate those kids you somehow couldn’t indoctrinate with CRT, SEL or whatever garbage of the day you want to teach them.
WHY
May 7, 2023 at 9:38 am
nonsensical narrative with no basis in reality or facts.. adjust you antennae, your signal is from Uranus
Doug SchexnayderPhD
May 7, 2023 at 2:31 pm
those are opinions and allegations not evidence … so can I do the same to you?
Try ditching the demothug narratives and actually thinking!
ScienceBLVR
May 4, 2023 at 9:31 am
Yeah, we can name the section after, Tucker Carlson Raceway, – just put all the homophobic misogynistic racists in one putrid little row.
Truth Betold
May 7, 2023 at 4:12 am
No KKK member has EVER been a Republican… It’s a Democrat thing exclusively… The KKK vowed to eradicate the Republican Party…
You’re the ones re-segregating… Are you gonna’ call it “Jim Crow” again? I’m sure Dem’s called the establishments of color “safe spaces” during reconstruction as well, before legally mandating them… Democrats are the KKK… You should bear your burning cross with pride battling against Republicans, same as the KKK always has, since their founding…
Nearly a third of all confirmed KKK lynchings were white Republicans. Nearly all confirmed KKK lynchings were Republican activists and organizers… The KKK wasn’t a racist anti-black organization, it was an anti-Republican terrorist group… It never targeted any black Democrat activists or organizers… It was an organization of racist Democrats in the south, opposed to their loss of power as black Republicans were given the right to vote, helped by Republican activists and organizers… Imagine that, the southern Black populace voting against the Democratic Party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, discrimination, oppression, and the KKK… Go figure…
Andrew Jackson was the founder of the Democratic Party, rising to power on the back of his “Indian removal” platform, (native genocide), and preservation of slavery… He organized the “Trail of Tears”, and the Democrats followed him from the Democratic-Republican party which they abandoned, for the new Democratic Party on the basis of his successes regarding “Indian Removal” (genocide), and his support of continuing slavery by creating new slave states to stack the representation in Congress, through a doctrine he called “Manifest Destiny”…
The KKK was an organization of racist Democrats in the south, opposed to their loss of power as black Republicans were given the right to vote, helped by Republican activists and organizers…
Imagine that, the southern Black populace voting against the Democratic Party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, discrimination, oppression, and the KKK… Go figure…
Ocean Joe
May 7, 2023 at 8:27 am
Having been a lifelong Dem, agree with a lot of that, but I dont know where you were in the mid-late 60’s when southern Democrats switched parties in droves in response to force bussing, integration, the Civil Rights act.
Keep up with history.
Who waves the confederate flag and protects the traitors’ statues now?
NorthernDude
May 7, 2023 at 9:07 am
If you want to try that great “switch” theory from the 60s, lets go with the one in the last 10 years where democrats are fascists who try to cancel everyone with whom they disagree and punish whomever they can with lawfare. What happened to the defenders of civil liberties? I can’t stand the GOP but the DNC is a bunch of opportunistic flip flopping hypocrites who will do or say anything for a vote.
WHY
May 7, 2023 at 9:39 am
wow.. the low information crowd is out in force….how pathetic
TeeChop
May 4, 2023 at 10:29 am
Can you name one racist statement that Rush ever said?
I can also say this: Any road named after Rush will a lot safer then any street anywhere in the country named MLK blvd.
Jay Smif
May 4, 2023 at 3:39 pm
Here you go, pussy little conservative: https://newsone.com/16051/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
Rush was also an opioid addict and junkie, it’s a shame that the lung cancer got him before the fentanyl had its chance:
Limbaugh was arrested on prescription drug fraud charges in his home state of Florida, following years of addiction to painkillers (prosecutors later agreed to drop all charges if he agreed to enter rehab).
Brian
May 6, 2023 at 11:18 pm
Standard leftist can’t handle the truth so you cry Racist. Get a new gig kook. As for the addiction side maybe you should show him the same compassion you’ve shown Hunter Biden.
Truth Betold
May 7, 2023 at 4:21 am
You are delusional, and there were no racist statements by Rush in the link… All I found when searching your moniker was your own extreme racist history, hatred, and violence against women… Your unabashed obsession with preadolescent boys is also quite disturbing…
Investigations are clearly in order…
NorthernDude
May 7, 2023 at 9:32 am
“That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires,” the radio commentator said Tuesday on his show after the New York Yankees owner died at age 80. “He fired a bunch of white guys as managers left and right.”
In response to the criticism he posted this:
“I mean, they are so upset, angry, jealous, this is the best they can do is to take an out-of-context comment by MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA and twist it into something that I didn’t say. And the MEDIA MATTERS people, I’m really offended they left out one of the most relevant things I said yesterday. I talked about what a great capitalist GEORGE STEINBRENNER was that he even knew when to die. This year when there is no estate tax, his family has saved a half a billion dollars alone on the asset value of the NEW YORK YANKEES. GEORGE STEINBRENNER was able to grow the NEW YORK YANKEES from a $10 million franchise to being worth at least $1.2 billion, and along the way he made a lot of African-American millionaires. As a lot of capitalists do, everybody around STEINBRENNER got wealthy. And to show that STEINBRENNER had all kinds of street cred while making these African-American millionaires rich and wealthy, he fired a bunch of white guy managers. I mean this guy’s got street cred like you couldn’t find anywhere else in sports.”
Doesn’t sound racist to me, or like anything Al Sharpton, who I think is way closer to being a racist than Limbaugh could ever be.
One quote check was enough. I know the rest will be similar. But don’t stop the number one liberal motto – accuse those of what you do.
And yeah, he got hooked on pain killers. Ever known anyone that had that happen to them? As long as they are not stealing and killing for their habit, they are just killing themselves.
WHY
May 7, 2023 at 9:42 am
bet you supported Gilium.. and your hero Biden showered with his daughter till she was 14, raised a crack head grifter, pretends his granddaughter isnt his and is accepting money from China, bribes from Ukraine and russia… but dont let facts get in the way of your “feelings”
Dont Say FLA
May 7, 2023 at 7:04 pm
That is because Rush is a Canada band. Everything in Canada is safer than anything in USA and especially Fleur D’uh.
Mickey
May 4, 2023 at 10:59 am
The Tallahassee Civic center where inauguration events are held is actually on MLK Street
PASTOR KENNETH GLENN AND KATY KOONS
May 4, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Rush was one of America’s greatest patriots in our 200 Years+. He is in Heaven where hopefully he is praying for the US to reject all Satanic liberalism which is the Dem. Party. Fla. like other states must not reject or ignore their patriots honored.
Ocean Joe
May 7, 2023 at 8:41 am
If he is in heaven, somebody is washing his mouth out with soap.
David B. Kerwin
May 4, 2023 at 3:26 pm
People who denigrate Rush have never listened with an open, unprejudiced mind. There will need to be a camera trained on each and every road sign to keep rabid libs from vandalizing them all.
Skippingdog
May 4, 2023 at 8:16 pm
He was a clown who led folks like you down a path toward prison. His passing came far too late.
NorthernDude
May 7, 2023 at 9:35 am
The biggest clown of our times is currently doing the court jestering in the White House, destroying america every day. But you want to focus on a dead talk show host???
Pastor Pasta
May 4, 2023 at 4:15 pm
When reached for comment Limbaugh screamed “Aghhhh it BURNS, make it stop!! How long is eternity anyway???”
Skippingdog
May 4, 2023 at 8:15 pm
Those street signs will make convenient public urinals, as they should.
Conservative_gal
May 4, 2023 at 8:25 pm
Rush Limbaugh did more for the black community via his charities than Al Sharpton has ever done. How many millions of dollars has the vicious Dems raised for charity? Nada.
Mark W.
May 4, 2023 at 11:33 pm
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex raised 5 million dollars for charites after the State of Texas failed to protect the lives of its citizens after a simple winter storm.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/weather/2021/02/20/391907/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-visits-houston-food-bank-after-raising-3-million-for-texas-winter-storm-relief/
-A vicious Dem
J West
May 6, 2023 at 11:48 pm
AOC is a vapid twatt who has never had an original thought. She has the mouth of a donkey, if you’ve ever noticed her disgusting smile.
I really can’t stand her. I don’t tolerate stupid women and she is one stupid woman. You know any smart woman?
There are many but none of them are democrats
Dont Say FLA
May 7, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Marjorie Taylor Green is a super genius
Craig Weisman
May 6, 2023 at 10:40 pm
Ask Truther Mark Dice if Rush is all that people claimed him to be. Rush spoke truth, and most assuredly omitted too much truth.
For who can speak the whole truth except the indwelt Holy Ghost in the servant life of a believer in Almighty God, justified and sanctified in the blood of Jesus Christ?
By God’s grace alone:
Repent and believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and at God’s perfect timing, He will redeem His elect and indwell them with the Holy Ghost.
For this perfect storm we are living through is God’s perfect plan of redemption and judgement upon His creation.
All glory be to God.
Jim
May 7, 2023 at 3:47 pm
He never would have been able to stay on the air if he said all of the truth you wanted him to you’re not allowed to say the truth in America isn’t that obvious by now
Brian
May 6, 2023 at 10:52 pm
Democrats are the most intolerant and racist people in America.
Ocean Joe
May 7, 2023 at 8:38 am
Apparently, you don’t get out much, proud boy.
Jim
May 7, 2023 at 3:45 pm
The world is a better place every time a Democrat dies.
The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat
Oliver Clozoff
May 6, 2023 at 11:06 pm
Everyone who disagrees with a Democrat is a racist. If you don’t believe it, ask any Democrat.
Sam Axe
May 6, 2023 at 11:36 pm
“I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”
False – Snopes
Peter
May 6, 2023 at 11:42 pm
Check out snopes.com Rush never said this:
We didn’t have slavery in this country because it was a bad thing, quite the opposite. Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark,’”
Jim
May 7, 2023 at 3:43 pm
Everyone that’s honest knows that slavery was the best thing that ever happened to blacks look at them now failed people
Tropical
May 7, 2023 at 8:32 am
Dead end street, I assume?
KMP
May 7, 2023 at 10:15 am
That slavery quote was attributed to Limbaugh, but as far as I know, there was never a source for it. It came out of some book and Limbaugh said it was not his. Additionally, he often quoted things he’d read and the leftists would edit out the context.
Conor
May 7, 2023 at 12:36 pm
The only example of Limbaugh’s alleged racism in the article is a quote by Rep. Rita Harris that Snopes says there’s no evidence Limbaugh ever said and which he denied saying.
Swing and a miss.
Jim
May 7, 2023 at 3:41 pm
Think what you want about Rush Limbaugh there’s one thing we can all agree on that Democrats are disgusting miscreants…. truly Lonesome hypocritical degenerate reprobates
Tjb
May 7, 2023 at 4:44 pm
The trolls are out in force today supporting Rush. It is obvious because the misinformation they are vomiting.
Margaret
May 7, 2023 at 6:07 pm
All the comments herein reflect the reasons why I am ashamed to be a Floridian. This kind of nastiness became acceptable because of one person in particular, also, currently, a Florida resident: the Insurrectionist-in-Chief.
Our Governor has followed his example of pandering to the lowest common denominator, spoiling the reputation of the State, forever, unless, by some miracle, people wake up and vote for integrity, decency and honesty.
Dont Say FLA
May 7, 2023 at 6:59 pm
Why single out Rush Limbo? Can’t we honor all of Florida’s Covid deaths with a street named Rhon DasPanties Lane?
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