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Go Ahead DeSantis, S#!T on Florida's Economy Some More! [1]
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Date: 2023-07-07
So, popped on over to Raw Story and was reading an article about how many organizations are choosing not to book their conventions in Florida.
Seems the Guv has made it politically noxious for many groups who wanted to hold their conventions there, but, felt compelled to cancel and rebook in other states.
According to the article, more than half a dozen groups have cancelled their plans, this according to a tourism promotion group Visit Lauderdale and published in the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
“We lost this program due to political climate,” Visit Lauderdale notes on a decision by the Supreme Council of America Inc., Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite Masons to cancel its meeting, planned for August next year. It also canceled 855 hotel rooms.
“We were so close on this one,” read another note on the cancellation of the 2024 National Family and Community Engagement and Community Schools Conference – it also pulled out of more than 2,000 hotel rooms.
The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association had planned a 3,000-person conference in 2026 but is instead headed to Milwaukee.
In a note to Visit Lauderdale, it’s spokesperson Beth Miller cited the “unfriendly political environment in Florida.”
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