Professor: Going after 'woke' could lead Florida to going broke in wake of hurricanes
Source: Savannah Morning News
Professor: Going after 'woke' could lead Florida to going broke in wake of hurricanes
John A. Tures
Fri, September 1, 2023 at 6:38 AM EDT·4 min read
This commentary is authored by John A. Tures, a professor of political science at LaGrange College
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When I went to Ft. Myers earlier this year to help with the Hurricane Ian clean-up with our chaplain and students, I thought there wouldn’t be much left to do. Instead, it looked like the hurricane had hit the day before. I heard horror stories about dropped insurance, folks out of money, price gouging, and no ability to rebuild.
Indeed, we now know that in Florida, inflation remains high though it’s come down in the rest of the country. Housing prices are skyrocketing. Insurers are leaving the market. Fed-up residents in Jacksonville, a GOP bastion, elected a Democratic mayor; she defeated a prominent local politician and DeSantis supporter.
Rather than trying to help the residents of the Sunshine State by addressing the crisis, a member of Florida’s government decided to label Farmers Insurance “woke.” DeSantis' CFO called the insurer “The Bud Light of the insurance industry” hoping to tap into “conservative anger” over transgenderism to scare Farmers into coming back to the state to lose billions more.
In fact, the whole insurance industry has been losing billions and hasn’t had a positive financial outcome since two years before DeSantis was first elected Florida’s governor. Now Florida's leaders want to boycott insurance companies when the state's residents need them the most. The audacity is incredible.
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