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Opinion: Governor DeSantis crosses legal and ethical lines in abortion ballot fight
There’s nothing new or surprising about a governor influencing a referendum on a constitutional amendment, but Gov. Ron DeSantis has trampled some ethical and legal lines in trying to torpedo the abortion proposal on Florida’s November ballot.
DeSantis opposes Florida’s abortion ballot measure. He’s deployed the government to fight it.
The Florida state health care regulator has campaigned against it, which DeSantis defends as informing the public.
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Florida’s governor has come under fire from critics who say he is using state resources to work against a proposed abortion-rights amendment to the state Constitution.
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The right thing to do is stand up for what’s right and take a stand,” DeSantis said about his efforts to defeat Amendment 4.
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In abortion fight, Florida Gov. DeSantis says he's exempt from election interference law
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Comcast, a Backer of Reproductive Rights, Donates to DeSantis’s Anti-Abortion PAC
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Missouri GOP's failed attempts to keep abortion rights off ballot could foreshadow fight to come
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Florida urges justices to nix a case over state interference in the abortion amendment
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DeSantis, other Republicans at center of possible federal probe interfering with abortion rights amendment
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Ron DeSantis was hailed as the future of the GOP. Now he’s just another Trump toady.
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