POLK COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Thursday morning near Auburndale, lauding state transportation projects.
The governor announced that the Florida Department of Transportation was launching a website that would serve as a portal to “make clear where Florida stands” as opposed to transportation initiatives pursued by the Biden administration. The website — RoadsAreNotForPolitics.com — contains links to politically-imbued talking points such as “greenhouse gaslighting,” “equity vs. ‘equity’” and ”weaponized bureaucracy,” which in part address “the supposed ‘climate crisis,’” how “Florida will continue leading the fight against special interests” and “keeping Florida’s transportation system free from COVID tyranny,” respectively.
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Upon taking office, the Biden Administration committed to ‘building back better,’ a promise to invest in the nation’s deteriorating transportation system.
Unsurprisingly, less than 24 hours after President Biden assumed office, USDOT updated that commitment, placing an emphasis on, “economic recovery, racial equity, and combating climate change,” rather than reducing congestion and maintaining our roads and bridges.
RoadsAreNotForPolitics.com home page (excerpt)
“We don’t want to see the weaponization of transportation dollars. We want to make sure that transportation and road-building is focusing on what it should be focusing on, providing our residents with an ability to get to and from in the most efficient and effective way possible. We should not be trying to shoehorn DEI or CRT or climate alarmism into these projects, these projects need to stand on their own two feet,” DeSantis said.
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DeSantis was joined at the SunTrax Test Facility by FDOT Secretary Jared Perdue and others.
Watch the news conference again in the video player below:
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