A state legislator from North Florida with the unlikely name of Wankard Pooser once filed a bill to abolish Florida’s “figurehead” Legislature. His reasoning: Lawmakers only did what the governor told them to do anyway.
That was in 1945. If Pooser were alive today, he might say: “I told you so.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis singlehandedly exerts an authoritarian control over the state to an extent unparalleled in its history. He’s the first Florida governor who:
