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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Florida’s legislative session under attack by the left, but a victory for voters | Opinion - Tallahassee Democrat

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The radical left and their friends in the media are in complete meltdown over Florida’s legislative session. They claim the session was about “culture wars” and believe, “The best thing the Florida Legislature did was adjourn.”

Why has the media been so horrified? It is simply because an increasingly red state is governing conservatively.

Florida has led the nation during COVID by choosing to be open and allowing residents personal freedom from mask and vaccine mandates. These policies were so popular that lockdown Democratic leaders decided to vacation in Florida while leaving their destructive policies in place in their states. Now, facing universally high disapproval, they are now dropping their own mandates.

During this legislative session, Republicans led the way with record tax breaks, bonuses for our law enforcement officers, greater election integrity, protecting human life, and protecting parents’ rights regarding education from grades K-3.

The left and its allies couldn’t honestly argue against this kind of agenda that is popular with the voters of Florida, so they had to invent reasons to oppose the policies.

If you read the social media of Democratic members, you would think there was legislation to prevent the term “gay” or to forbid the teaching of race in classrooms. None of this was true, and this misinformation was used to try to oppose the idea that parents, not teachers and bureaucrats, should guide what students learn in their classrooms.

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