{"id":1502844,"date":"2022-06-03T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502844"},"modified":"2022-06-03T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:04:40","slug":"desantis-gives-tampa-rays-a-slap-on-the-wrist-for-gun-control-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-gives-tampa-rays-a-slap-on-the-wrist-for-gun-control-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Gives Tampa Rays A Slap On The Wrist For Gun Control Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-gives-tampa-rays-a-slap-on-the-wrist-for-gun-control-tweets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $35 million in funding to the Tampa Bay Rays sports training and youth tournament facility in Pasco County Thursday after touting their support of a gun control advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>The Major League Baseball (MLB) team posted a statement claiming a $50,000 commitment to Everytown for Gun Safety\u2019s Support Fund, a pro-gun control advocacy group. The team posted the statement two days after the Uvalde <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/24\/uvalde-consolidated-independent-school-district-texas-elementary-active-shooter-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shooting<\/a> inside Robb Elementary School, which left 19 children and 2 fourth-grade teachers dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cannot become normal. We cannot become numb. We cannot look the other way. We all know, if nothing changes, nothing changes,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9DpyuwEzJo\">pic.twitter.com\/9DpyuwEzJo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/1529951434682339328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The funding, introduced by Republican Florida state Sen. Danny Burgess, was expected to be in the state\u2019s 2022-23 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/02\/ron-desantis-biden-excuses-low-approval-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fiscal Budget<\/a>, which the governor signed into law Thursday afternoon, The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/3510701-desantis-vetoes-funds-for-tampa-bay-rays-practice-facility-after-team-tweets-on-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1532806494487552000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended<\/a> his veto calling it \u201cinappropriate\u201d to \u201csubsidize\u201d a private corporation\u2019s political activism at a Friday press conference. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/01\/treated-pedestal-gov-ron-desantis-disney-wokeness-destroy-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Treated On A Pedestal\u2019: Gov. DeSantis Says Disney\u2019s \u2018Wokeness\u2019 Will \u2018Destroy This Country\u2019)<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies are free to engage and not engage with whatever discourse they want, but clearly, it\u2019s inappropriate to be giving tax dollars to a professional sports stadium,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s inappropriate to subsidize political activism of a private corporation. We were not in a situation where a use of tax dollars for a private stadium would have been a prudent use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pasco County lobbied for the facility that would provide \u201ccommunity facilities serving general recreation, youth\/amateur\/professional baseball and softball participation\u201d and hoped the Rays would move their spring training operations to the location, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/03\/politics\/ron-desantis-tampa-bay-rays-gun-violence\/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&#038;utm_content=2022-06-03T17%3A26%3A02&#038;utm_term=link&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis had reportedly been wary of passing the funding suspecting it would provide little to no economic benefit and may upset residents in Port Charlotte, where the Rays\u2019 current spring training facilities are located, according to CNN. A source told both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/exclusive-gov-ron-desantis-to-veto-35-million-tampa-bay-rays-facility-amid-polarization-of-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outkick<\/a> and CNN that the donation to Everytown sealed the governor\u2019s decision to oppose the funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida governor similarly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/22\/desantis-signs-bill-revoking-disney-special-tax-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revoked<\/a> Disney\u2019s special tax status granted by the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which gave the company the same authority and responsibility as a county government. He made the move after Disney\u2019s uproar over the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/28\/ron-desantis-signs-parental-rights-in-education-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation<\/a> prohibiting classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $35 million in funding to the Tampa Bay Rays sports training and youth tournament facility in Pasco County Thursday after touting their support of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}