Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Rejects $35 Million Funding For Tampa Bay Rays New Practice Facility Allegedly Over Team’s Tweet About Gun Control: ‘We All Deserve To Be Safe’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected a proposal to give a baseball team, the Tampa Bay Rays, $35 million allegedly because the team tweeted about gun control.

The Tampa Bay Rays were looking to solidify $35 million in funding from the government for a new practice facility. Still, their ask was turned down by DeSantis because they tweeted about their stance against gun control, The New York Post reports.

“We all deserve to be safe – in schools, grocery stores, places of worship, our neighborhoods, houses, and America. The most recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde have shaken us to the core. The Tampa Bay Rays are mourning these heartbreaking tragedies that took the lives of innocent children and adults,” reads the tweet. “This cannot become normal. We cannot become numb. We cannot look the other way. We all know, if nothing changes, nothing changes,” the tweet read.

This isn’t the first time DeSantis has used his power as governor against people and companies who speak out against his political and seemingly personal decisions. He recently took away Disney’s self-governing status after it opposed gender identity education in schools.

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