{"id":12247,"date":"2023-05-24T04:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T09:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2023-05-24T04:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T09:06:01","slug":"rick-scott-issues-travel-advisory-for-socialists-warning-florida-is-openly-hostile-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12247","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott issues travel advisory for \u2018socialists,\u2019 warning Florida is \u2018openly hostile\u2019 to them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sen.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/rick-scott\/\">Rick Scott\u2002<\/a>(R-Fla.)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottforFlorida\/status\/1661055674913112075?s=20\">issued what he described as<\/a>&nbsp;a \u201cformal travel advisory for socialists visiting Florida,\u201d on Tuesday, warning that the state was \u201copenly hostile\u201d to socialists and their enablers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by Socialists and others who work in the Biden Administration,\u201d Scott, who is also the state\u2019s former governor, said in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear \u2013 any attempts to spread the oppression and poverty that Socialism always brings will be rebuffed by the people of Florida,\u201d he added. \u201cTravelers should be aware that attempts to spread Socialism in north Florida will fail and be met with laughter and mockery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott\u2019s statement is a mocking response to recent travel issued by social justice groups declaring Florida an unsafe state for certain minority groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the weekend, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/4013835-naacp-issues-travel-warning-in-florida-the-state-has-become-hostile-to-black-americans\/\">NAACP issuing a travel advisory<\/a>&nbsp;warning that Florida has become \u201chostile to Black Americans\u201d under Gov. Ron DeSantis. The League of United Latin American Citizens (a civil rights organization) and Equality Florida (an LGBTQ rights group) also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-u-s-news\/ap-civil-rights-groups-warn-tourists-about-florida-in-wake-of-hostile-laws\/\">issued travel warnings<\/a>&nbsp;in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott, who has often served as a political foil to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\">President Biden,<\/a>&nbsp;used similar language found in the NAACP\u2019s advisory, seeming to mock the dangers outlined by the civil right\u2019s group by drawing parallels to Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the counteractive travel advisory came \u201cin direct response to the Biden Administration attempts to erase capitalism and the system that has brought prosperity to Florida and the entire United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/4017344-rick-scott-issues-travel-advisory-for-socialists-warning-florida-is-openly-hostile-to-them\/\">Thehil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.&nbsp;Rick Scott\u2002(R-Fla.)&nbsp;issued what he described as&nbsp;a \u201cformal travel advisory for socialists visiting Florida,\u201d on Tuesday, warning that the state was \u201copenly hostile\u201d to socialists and their enablers. \u201cThe state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by Socialists and others who work in the Biden Administration,\u201d Scott, who is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7291,7293,1437,7294,7292],"class_list":["post-12247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-black-americans","tag-challenge","tag-florida","tag-hostility","tag-rejection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}