‘Sabotage’: Condo dispute offers Gov. DeSantis a new platform to hammer the Florida House

Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to hammer the Republican supermajority Florida House, accusing them of working to “sabotage” the work he’s done while criticizing the body’s condo legislation.

“So far what the House is doing, I think, as was mentioned, they’re not viewing this as an urgent problem. And then the bill they have is probably going to make it worse,” DeSantis said about Republican Rep. Vicki Lopez’s proposal.

“It’s probably going to lead to more people being driven out of their home. It will be a ripe opportunity for developers to step in.”

He extolled Republican Sen. Ileana Garcia for expressing concerns about how the Lopez bill would push condo owners off of insurance if they don’t comply with the requirements, before voicing increasingly familiar complaints about the House.

“They ran for office saying they’re going to support the Florida model, and then they get in and they seem to be working to sabotage the great work that Florida has done over these last six years,” DeSantis said Thursday at the City of Sweetwater Community Center.

DeSantis said their immigration package would have “made Florida a sanctuary state,” prompting “outrage” from the public. He also accused House Republicans of trying to “turn over the state of Florida to the liberal trial bar” and “trying to pursue legislation that would roll back all the progress we’ve made of fighting the woke and the leftists in our state universities.”

“They actually have a provision that says the Governor and his staff are not allowed to discuss any vacancies of university Presidents,” DeSantis said. He argued that lead universities to “hire some flamboyant liberal President.”

“And we’re just supposed to sit and take it as Floridians? No, you elected me to make sure that these universities are in line and that’s exactly what we’ve done,” DeSantis said.

“What I see over and over again with what they’re doing is they’re not trying to defeat the leftists, which have caused so many problems around this country. You look at the decline in New York City, Chicago, California, Illinois, it’s all rooted in leftism and leftist ideology. And we in Florida have gone totally different and we’ve had success where they’ve had failures. And I see the Florida House trying to throw the leftists a lifeline.”