During a press conference on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was asked why a cross walk painted in rainbow colors to commemorate the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting was painted over.
00:00So I would refer you to the DOT memo. My staff can send you the DOT memo. It cites the statute. This was implementing guidance that was published probably a couple months ago by Jared Perdue at the Florida Department of Transportation. And what it does is it says state roads. No. Then it also says local governments have to follow the state standard. And so the way this kind of came up was that
00:29you had Key West saying, we don't care. We're going to do Delray Beach. We're going to do all this stuff. And then our department's like, no, that's not what the law says. You can't do it. But then it was like, well, wait a minute. There's a there's a marking. There's a picture here or there around the state. And so there have been a bunch of them with various political viewpoints, by the way, and honestly, probably more viewpoints that that are more associated with with with conservatives. And yet the DOT said, no, we're going to go do that. So my folks can provide that for you. It's
00:59very clear. I think everybody knows kind of where we're at with this. And and we're just going to abide by the law. That's going to happen.
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