Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist, a member of Congress who is also running for the Democratic Party nomination in the Florida gubernatorial race in 2022, calls on current Governor Ron DeSantis to investigate the state’s “outsized” role in the January 6 riots in the Capitol.
“I ask @GovRonDeSantis to protect our democracy by ordering a non-partisan investigation of the huge role in the Capitol Uprising,” Crist tweeted on Friday. “Hatred and insurrection cannot have a home here. DeSantis must act to keep us safe. “
As arrests in connection with the deadly attack on the Capitol continue to pile up, Florida has become the state with the highest number of residents arrested on charges related to the insurrection. Of the 484 people charged in the riot, 47 were arrested in the state of the Sun.
Texas and Pennsylvania have seen 42 arrests each, 36 arrests occurred in New York and 23 in Virginia, according to a Justice Department compilation of Captiol rape cases.
“In order to eliminate the confusion, confusion that was deliberately sown and that led to the insurrection of January 6, the governor must answer the following questions: Do you recognize that Joe? Biden is our duly elected president? Do you agree that the violent assault on our nation’s capital was the very definition of an insurrection in itself? Crist said during a press conference on Friday.
He continued: “And finally, Governor, do you support an independent and non-partisan commission to investigate this insurrection? “
The former governor asked DeSantis to sign an executive order to create an independent state commission ”to investigate the hate groups that plague our state. “
Following the 2020 presidential election, DeSantis joined state Republicans in their fight against widespread voter fraud, a claim that has been repeatedly discredited by both accounts reaffirming President Joe Biden’s victory and the failed demands of Trump’s campaign to annul the election results.
Last month, the governor signed a controversial election law that limited mailboxes and required stricter voter identification for mail-in ballots, among other stricter voting rules.
“Florida took steps in this legislative session to increase transparency and strengthen the security of our elections,” DeSantis said in a press release announcing the law. Floridians can rest assured that our state will continue to be a leader in. This is a short summary.
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