Sunburn -- The morning read of what's hot in Florida politics -- 10.9.23

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "This is them doing what they know Donald Trump likes, which is kiss his rear end in public," Christie said.
57% : It will go before County Commissioners for final approval on Tuesday but remains under review by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the South Florida Water Management District, for its required permits.
56% : States received billions of dollars in additional funding in exchange for keeping people covered through the health insurance program.
56% : For the first time in Jacksonville, the "Stand with Black Women" brunch hosted by Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida came to the River City on Sunday to spread awareness about how maternal mortality continues to disproportionately impact Black mothers.
53% : And so, that's why we're here today," Christina Wright with Planned Parenthood said.
53% : Like other Middle East terror groups -- Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthi militants in Yemen -- it is funded, trained, armed, and supported by Iran.
47% : "Planned Parenthood holds brunch to advocate for Black women, teach about maternal mortality impacts" via Ashley Harding of News4Jax --
46% : Samira Burnside, a 17-year-old trans girl who helped organize the event, said the law, along with a slew of other bills DeSantis signed this year, dehumanizes trans people.
44% : The drivers arrested under the law, and their passengers, were undocumented migrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries.
37% : Some groups including Planned Parenthood have called for sex education to be inclusive of LGBTQ+ students, but some states outright forbid such an approach.
36% : "The same FHP troopers have made the only 3 arrests under enhanced human smuggling law" via Syra Ortiz Blanes and Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald -- Touted by DeSantis as one of the strictest immigration crackdowns in the nation, stronger criminal penalties for transporting undocumented migrants into Florida have resulted in the arrests of only three people by state law enforcement officials in three months.
35% : And the continued appeasement of Iran is encouraging these attacks.-- @JaredEMoskowitz: 600 Dead in Israel is equivalent to 24,000 dead in the U.S. based on population.
33% : Indeed, though we don't know for sure why Hamas chose to strike exactly now, this could well be part of a larger attempt by Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, to prevent a historic reconciliation between Jerusalem and Riyadh.
32% : Iran has long been a destabilizing force in the Middle East, and its abiding hatred for the Jewish State was manifest in Hamas' attack.
29% : @MarcoRubio: Israel was attacked by a Hamas terror group funded & supplied by Iran.
26% : Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that U.S. officials are working to confirm reports of dead and missing Americans in Israel.
24% : Four months after White House officials spoke in victorious tones about an unexpected plunge in illegal migration, Biden is once again under growing pressure to address a surge in border crossings that shows no sign of slowing down.
22% : "U.S. officials push back against GOP accusations Hamas attack on Israel was bankrolled with prisoner swap funds" via Zachary Leeman of The Messenger -- Trump and other Republicans criticized a $6 billion prisoner swap deal between the United States and Iran following Hamas attacks on Israel, attempting to draw a connection between the two.
21% : "Biden faces growing pressure from Democrats over border crossings" via Toluse Olorunnipa of The Washington Post -- Democratic Mayor Eric Adams of New York City traveled to Mexico in a high-profile move to discourage illegal immigration.
19% : Several Republicans have ripped Biden since the Hamas incursion, attempting to link his relationship with Iran to the Saturday terror attacks in Israel.
10% : "Christie: Republicans who support Trump for Speaker want to 'kiss his rear end in public'" via Sarah Fortinsky of The Hill -- Christie criticized Republicans who publicly endorsed Trump to be the next Speaker of the House, a position for which Trump arguably would not be eligible.
8% : ""The Republican field is blaming Joe Biden for dealing with Iran after Hamas' attack on Israel" via The Associated Press -- Trump and other GOP contenders tried to lay blame on the Biden administration after Hamas militants launched the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, citing a $6 billion transfer to Iran that administration officials insisted Saturday had yet to be spent.

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