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Florida Jewish Republican Switches from DeSantis to Trump: ‘Our Choice as Jews Is Simple’
Breitbart ^ | 26 Oct 2023 | HANNAH BLEAU

Posted on 10/26/2023 12:36:21 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

State Rep. Randy Fine, a Jewish Republican legislator in Florida, has switched his support from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to former President Donald Trump, contending that the governor has not demonstrated enough action to combat antisemitism.

Fine began his op-ed, shared on social media as well as in the Washington Times, by telling readers that he was jumped by a Nazi two weeks ago in the Sunshine State, explaining he was a “target” as “the only Republican Jew elected to the Florida Legislature.”

“And you will find few people in the Legislature who have championed Mr. DeSantis more,” he wrote.

Fine noted his endorsement for DeSantis prior to his being the GOP nominee for governor and his own position as the governor’s Jewish Outreach Chair. Fine also identified himself as the author of the bills on Jewish issues that DeSantis has spoken about in the past. However, he contends that DeSantis’s actions have not matched his words.

“I love his words. His actions have broken my heart,” he wrote, providing a few examples, including a lack of progress on the state’s Holocaust memorial, as well as DeSantis not being forceful enough in condemning acts of antisemitism.

Eighteen months ago, my Nazi “friends” showed up in Florida. They assaulted a Rabbi. They beat up a Jew who yelled back at one of their protests. They commandeered highway overpasses to illegally hang banners saying “Gas the Jews.” They have tormented Jews at their homes with filth. Until a few weeks ago, Governor DeSantis said almost nothing. And worse, he did almost nothing.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: desantis; florida; palmbay; randyfine; rondesantis; trump

1 posted on 10/26/2023 12:36:21 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

What I find amazing is the overwhelming support Jews give to Democrats, Democrats who hate Jews. Just odd.


2 posted on 10/26/2023 12:40:46 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SoConPubbie
The only reason my great Governor DeSantis isn't getting any traction is Trump's excellent record on handling the economy and his ability to handle foreign relations.

Can you imagine where America would be without Obama, Biden, Hillary, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the Weaponized FBI/CIA and DOJ? We would be safer and richer as would the world.

3 posted on 10/26/2023 12:47:32 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: 1Old Pro

I’ve asked when given an opportunity(maybe a dozen) and the answers are akin to a typical brain dead leftist. Largely nonsensical, alternate reality gibberish.


4 posted on 10/26/2023 12:47:43 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: 1Old Pro

I find that odd as well. I also find it odd that so many liberal Jews hate Israel.


5 posted on 10/26/2023 12:47:46 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: McGavin999
I also find it odd that so many liberal Jews hate Israel.

yea, I guess it's not the same as a "home country" where a generational American Irishman or Italian American still has some connection to that country, and typically not hatred.

6 posted on 10/26/2023 12:50:11 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Self hating American Jews.


7 posted on 10/26/2023 12:53:44 PM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Jews aren’t stupid, but the Jews in the democrat party sure are.


8 posted on 10/26/2023 12:55:17 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: 1Old Pro

It is carry over from time gone by when Jews were discriminated in corporations. In my company, the plant manager was Jewish. He was much older than me, and he told me story about not finding any jobs until he changed his name from obviously Jewish name to a Christian name.

When people are discriminated, they never forget it.


9 posted on 10/26/2023 1:05:21 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: SoConPubbie

Er. I didn’t know that a Governor is supposed to intervene in local law enforcement. That’d be awesome if Governors got involved in every assault that occurs in the State. /S


10 posted on 10/26/2023 1:06:01 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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11 posted on 10/26/2023 1:08:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’m sure he has his reasons for switching from DeSantis to Trump, perhaps among them joining a winning team. But none of his complaints about DeSantis strike me as legitimate. Or many of them, local law enforcement in specific cases, expelling students from colleges, properly in the pervue of a Governor.


12 posted on 10/26/2023 1:43:28 PM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
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To: SJackson

Yes, Fine Mr. Fine has heard all the Freepers screaming, “Meatball, Meatball, Meatball!”


13 posted on 10/26/2023 1:49:44 PM PDT by Oystir
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To: SoConPubbie

DeSantis has done lots to combat anti-Semitism. If the Jews want America to subserviently show fealty to the Jews, they just need to go back their country because it isn’t going to happen.


14 posted on 10/26/2023 1:52:28 PM PDT by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: 1Old Pro

US Jews have long had a suicidal wish based on decades long voting pattern

Meanwhile their Israeli cousins are battling to save all of precious western civilization.

US Jews do not deserve any sympathy or respect from Americans with the exception of those that served our military honorably.

For the rest it looks like a difficult road ahead. So too bad.


15 posted on 10/26/2023 2:38:52 PM PDT by whistleduck
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To: SoConPubbie

About time they turned the lights on.


16 posted on 10/26/2023 2:47:59 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: SoConPubbie

Sounds perfectly ‘Fine’ to this Trump supporter. Glad he has realized who his friends are, and even more so, who his REAL enemies are.


17 posted on 10/26/2023 2:48:53 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: 1Old Pro
There has long been a affinity of socialism and anarchy in America associated with Jews. The democratic party is a natural magnet for such views and support. When you look to groups like the BLM and other similar rabble, they are led by the intelligentsia, which is often Jewish.
18 posted on 10/26/2023 5:40:49 PM PDT by Theoria
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Richard Barris says his polling shows it’s not just the Jewish Republican donors who are coming over to Trump, but also Democrats and Independents - the Democrat’s reluctance to condemn the Hamas attack on Israel is pissing off even Leftist Jews.


19 posted on 10/27/2023 1:47:11 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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