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Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

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Leaders of arts organizations in Florida, many of whom have worked in the state for decades, cannot remember a governor ever eliminating all of their grant funding. Even in the lean years of the Great Recession, at least a nominal amount — say, 5 percent of the recommended total — was approved.

Established arts organizations usually know better than to overly rely on nonrecurring state dollars subject to the discretion of politicians, said Michael Tomor, executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art. But to cut funding at a time when arts organizations are still struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic sends a concerning message “that taxpayer dollars should not be used in support of arts and culture,” he added.

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Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, gave no explanation for zeroing out the arts grants. His office said in a statement that he made veto decisions “that are in the best interests of the State of Florida.”

In all, Mr. DeSantis vetoed nearly $950 million in proposed spending and proclaimed that the remaining $116.5 billion came in under the previous year’s budget.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 137 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I get it. When has the world ever become a better place when nations fund artworks?

Look at this Florentine shit:

That is what you get when a nation's leader becomes a patron of the arts. Is that sort of smut what you want our kids seeing?

[-] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

Next thing theyll do it paint porn on the roof of the Cistine chapel, however you spell it

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago

You’re saying a cis teen painted this chapel? Woke agenda!

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

And it took him like 30 years.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

That's okay, that's the church paying for it. DeSantis is fine with church smut.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

The true horror is that this is some Greek smut. We need good, clean Christian nudity for our money.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Fucking Aristophanes... getting famous just because the Athenian government wasted money on dramatic competitions.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Greek smut.

You know the Greeks were one of the first editors of the bible? I think they gave us the Old Testament.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Those patrons of the arts the medicis were the oligarchs of their time.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

And they used part of their considerable wealth to fund the arts.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

"Would you censor the Venus de Venus just because you can see her spewers?"

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah what an absolute waste of money!

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