Professor: Going after 'woke' could lead Florida to going broke in wake of hurricanes

[Eugene]

Source: Savannah Morning News

Professor: Going after 'woke' could lead Florida to going broke in wake of hurricanes

John A. Tures
Fri, September 1, 2023 at 6:38 AM EDT·4 min read

This commentary is authored by John A. Tures, a professor of political science at LaGrange College

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When I went to Ft. Myers earlier this year to help with the Hurricane Ian clean-up with our chaplain and students, I thought there wouldn’t be much left to do. Instead, it looked like the hurricane had hit the day before. I heard horror stories about dropped insurance, folks out of money, price gouging, and no ability to rebuild.

Indeed, we now know that in Florida, inflation remains high though it’s come down in the rest of the country. Housing prices are skyrocketing. Insurers are leaving the market. Fed-up residents in Jacksonville, a GOP bastion, elected a Democratic mayor; she defeated a prominent local politician and DeSantis supporter.

Rather than trying to help the residents of the Sunshine State by addressing the crisis, a member of Florida’s government decided to label Farmers Insurance “woke.” DeSantis' CFO called the insurer “The Bud Light of the insurance industry” hoping to tap into “conservative anger” over transgenderism to scare Farmers into coming back to the state to lose billions more.

In fact, the whole insurance industry has been losing billions and hasn’t had a positive financial outcome since two years before DeSantis was first elected Florida’s governor. Now Florida's leaders want to boycott insurance companies when the state's residents need them the most. The audacity is incredible.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/professor-going-woke-could-lead-103814737.html

[RKP5637]

1. Sure sounds like republican logic! n/t

[tulipsandroses]

2. Not too long ago, Ft Myers was thought of one of the most up and coming cities in the US

New construction everywhere, business relocations. After Desantis, I doubt that’s the case. Republican voters will have to realize that government is supposed to do more than owning the libs.

[Deuxcents]

4. 👍

[jimfields33]

5. The entire state is being developed and developed

My county is being developed beyond belief and people are moving in droves. Lake county will be like Orlando in no time. It’s growing too fast.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Idiots. Maybe they'll wake up to their state residents very angry w/ their empty wallets due to

their idiotic policies driving insurers out of the state. I'm surprised that the state of FL hasn't passed a law making it illegal for an insurance company to leave the state, period, or must deposit a billion dollars in a bank account immediately w/ the state in order to do business in the state of FL.

[Chi67]

6. Florida

Fucking around and finding out. Is there any legal way for the good people there to oust DeSantis? He's term-limited, so voting is no longer an option.

[czarjak]

7. Woke Wake's Gonna Get Ya

[riversedge]

8. Once again, it is the workers-families for the most part that are affected