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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I assume that Miami-Dade County had a reason to draft legislation like this. There weren't political points to be gained here since this was a low profile issue until this bill made it high profile. The county wouldn't have gone through the effort if there wasn't a problem to be addressed.

I could understand repealing a statewide mandate for protections if it was costing money to enforce and wasn't seeing results. I don't understand restricting local governments from implementing their own local protections. What harm would the protections have done?

[–] prole 12 points 5 months ago

They are blue areas doing good things to help their constituents. DeSantis couldn't have that. It's really not any deeper than that. The cruelty is the point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Texas recently did something similar: they banned requiring water breaks for workers. It sounded like it was a political move to show they were helping businesses be more productive, even if it doesn't really help much while still hurting the people they want to hurt.