Daily News | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to be greeted with gold medal and protests at The Union League
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be honored at The Union League Tuesday, with a side of rancor from planned protests outside, during a visit to Philadelphia Tuesday.known for his rhetorical skirmishesDeSantis will receive The Union League’s highest honor — a gold medal first awarded to President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 — during a late afternoon reception and program.Advertisement
The city’s NAACP chapter is calling on the private club to cancel the event, an unlikely outcome because The Union LeagueThe NAACP, in a news release Tuesday, repeated the concerns first laid out in an October letter from those club members about DeSantis. Those claims include: DeSantis “does not support the peaceful transfer of presidential power” and is “equivocal about an armed insurrection against the United States” on Jan. 6, 2021.
DeSantis supports political candidates “who spread the lie” that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen.” DeSantis has “trampled on the 1st Amendment” by supporting “the banning of books from libraries and schools and the restriction of what school teachers can say and teach.”proposed for the state’s schools, a decision DeSantis stood by Monday while claiming the course amounted to “indoctrination.”in Florida last year that includes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
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