But then when he took office, there was a sort of a honeymoon period where he championed a lot of bipartisan issues for about the first year of his administration - teacher pay, raising teacher salaries was a big one, cleaning up Florida's waterways. Some Democrats were expressing surprise that this guy who they expected to be really hard right was really sort of finding compromise.
And really all of that changed when the pandemic hit. He really embraced this combative style of rejecting the advice of pretty much the medical establishment and wanted Florida to be out in front early, opening up schools, opening up businesses. He, you know, prohibited local municipalities from enforcing mask mandates, for example.
And good Monday morning! Had a blast yesterday. I was the only fool in the bar last night cheering for my Seahawks, who beat the poor Cards like a drum!
