from the state’s budget, including $150,000 earmarked for mental health services for survivors of the Pulse massacre.In a particularly cruel twist, DeSantis’s veto came just days before the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting at the Orlando nightclub.
Given that the state’s budget is a record $100 billion this year, $150,000 doesn’t even count as a drop in the bucket. But it is a lot of money for the LGBT community center that is serving the survivors of the mass shooting. More,But staff at the LGBT+ Center Orlando, which lost the $150,000 in state funding, said the governor’s veto would definitely hurt Pulse survivors and other LGBT residents in the area.
Joél Morales, the Center Orlando’s director of operations, said that earlier this year, the center took over a counseling services program offered to Pulse survivors and the families of those killed. A federal grant had previously paid for similar services in the state, but it ended in 2019. Without state funding, the center can’t afford to keep running the program, which currently serves 68 families and survivors.
“We only requested $150,000, which is the bare minimum to just sustain the program as it is,” Morales told The Post.Morales added, “It was a slap in the face. I bawled just because of all the hard work our community is doing and the healing that still needs to be done.
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He vetoed $900,000 in funding for “LGBTQ projects.” What were the projects?
The cruelty is the point.
Hey, Florida, are you okay?
Ron DeSantis looks like what you'd get if an inarticulate person gave a description of Russell Crowe to an untalented police sketch-artist.