California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) unveiled a brand new marketing campaign advert over the Fourth of July weekend urging Floridians to battle in opposition to a slate of recent discriminatory regulations unveiled through GOP lawmakers… or transfer around the nation to his personal state as an alternative.
“Freedom is beneath assault to your state,” Newsom mentioned within the 30-second video, which can air on Fox Information as a part of a $105,000 advert purchase. “Your Republican leaders, they’re banning books, making it tougher to vote, proscribing speech in school rooms, even criminalizing girls and docs.”
“I encourage all of you residing in Florida to sign up for the battle or sign up for us in California the place we nonetheless consider in freedom,” he continues. “Freedom of speech, freedom to select, freedom from hate and the liberty to like.”
The advert comes amid a surge in new regulation that has been handed through the Republican-controlled legislature in Florida in contemporary months. On July 1, the state’s “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice, which restricts what lecturers can say about gender and sexual orientation in school rooms, went into impact. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) additionally signed some other regulation that will have prohibited all abortions within the state after 15 weeks of being pregnant without a exceptions for sufferers of rape or incest that was once scheduled to enter impact on July 1, as neatly. That regulation was once quickly blocked through a pass judgement on remaining week.
Newsom is these days operating for reelection in California, hoping to win a moment time period in November, as is DeSantis. Each are observed as emerging stars of their events with their points of interest set on a long run presidential bid.
A spokesman for DeSantis informed CNN the Florida governor was once unbothered through the brand new advert.
“Gavin Newsom would possibly as neatly gentle a pile of money on fireplace,” the spokesman, Dave Abrams, informed the opening. “Go the popcorn for his determined try to win again the California refugees who fled the hellhole he created in his state to return to Florida.”
