SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. And Dave Aronberg, though he did, if it were just about the sports stadiums, he could have vetoed it and said, “I don’t support giving money to sports stadiums or sports outfits,” when, of course, Marc just pointed out that he does for ones he prefers. But again, there’s just– there is an authoritarian streak here.

If you tweet something that a governor doesn’t like, he will veto your spending and he will tell you that’s why he vetoed the spending. He could have done noth– He could have just vetoed it and said, “I don’t like sports stadiums,” and leave it there but no, he wanted people to know. He’s punishing a private company, a private enterprise because of their political views with taxpayer money.

Same thing again, I talked about it before with Disney. Talked about with cruise lines that wanted, at the height of COVID, to keep their people safe, to have them wear masks, which any doctor – sane doctor would have said, this makes sense. Told them they couldn’t do that. Told small businesses they couldn’t have mask mandates if that’s how they wanted to run their small business. Told school boards what they could or couldn’t do despite the fact there’s 67 counties in the huge state of Florida.

I mean, it is just craziness. This is not conservative. This is authoritarian. It’s plain and simple. Conservatives know that.

DAVE ARONBERG: Yeah, Joe. This is just the latest attack against private enterprise by a governor who ran as a pro-business conservative. You know, as you say, he’s gone after social media companies who banned Trump, he’s penalized cruise lines for requiring vaccine mandates. He has punished Disney for opposing his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.

And yes, his critics call him an authoritarian. I would say he is more authoritarian-curious. He often resembles the socialist dictators he loves to hate, all while labeling our state the free state of Florida. And he just last week bullied the Special Olympics — that’s a new low — he said drop the vaccine mandate or you’re going to face a $27.5 million fine.