More evidence has surfaced to demonstrate Democrat Charlie Crist has abandoned his once moderate ways.
The Twitter account DeSantis War Room on Thursday posted a clip of Crist discussing Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education law. The interview occurred in April after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it.
Crist tells his interviewer that the first thing he would have done was veto the bill.
“I think it’s wrong to say that you can’t talk about what somebody feels in their heart, and what these young people feel in their soul,” Crist added, according to the website Florida’s Voice, which added context to the tweet.
Crist claimed the bill violated the right to free speech.
The law, which took effect July 1, actually bans Florida public school districts and classroom teachers from implementing lesson plans providing instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to kids in grades K-3.
By announcing that he would have vetoed the law, Crist suggested that not only would he have attempted to keep parents from having a say in what their children are taught, but also that he thinks it is appropriate to teach children up to third grade the radical LGBTQ agenda.
Crist also would have been at odds with most of Florida.
As The Free Press reported in March, two polls showed that a majority of most demographic groups supported the bill.
That included Democrats.
Two surveys, one by The Daily Wire and another by Alvarado Strategies, a Democratic pollster, indicated that 62 percent and 52 percent of Democrats, respectively, agreed that such subjects should not be taught to children in third grade or younger.
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The DeSantis War Room tweet was the second time in recent days that Crist’s position on the parents’ rights law has revealed his extremism on this issue.
Crist also has shown that he will lie about the bill’s contents, even as he agrees with it.
In a June interview with WPLG in Miami, Crist told the reporter that the bill “would make it more difficult to have guidance counselors to be available to help those children.”
When the reporter correctly told Crist that the bill said no such thing, he said such language “was in the bill I read. He added, “I’m a lawyer.”
Crist then got the fundamental facts wrong, saying the bill applied to “first through third grade,” and that LGBTQ issues “shouldn’t be discussed.” The reporter corrected him again, noting that the bill banned those topics from the curriculum.
Crist then added that the law said of those issues “up to an appropriate age we don’t want to talk about it either.” That’s not what the law says. Its language prohibits such instruction “in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
Ironically, amid his own error in pointing out that bill applied to no such issues in the classroom for “first through third grade,” he noted, “I don’t think I have a problem with that.”
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