Following backlash the City of Orlando received for its Fourth of July newsletter message in which it questioned why people would want to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day, the city has released an apology.
In Friday’s edition of Orlando’s City News newsletter, its original proclamation read, “A lot of people probably don’t want to celebrate our nation right now, and we can’t blame them. When there is so much division, hate and unrest, why on earth would you want to have a party celebrating any of it?”
The statement continued, “But in all seriousness, you know in your heart, Fourth of July fireworks are amazing, especially when you are standing in 90 degree heat, 100 percent humidity, next to 100,000 of your closest friends. In that moment, something takes over and we all become united in an inexplicable bond. Yes, America is in strife right now, but you know what…we already bought the fireworks.”
The segment of the newsletter was an advertisement for Fireworks at the Fountain 2022, held in Downtown Orlando on the Fourth.
The statement from the city received backlash from the public as well as from Governor Ron DeSantis’ office, with his press secretary Christina Pushaw writing, “Yikes. City of Orlando, is this your official position on our country and on 4th of July?”
The city’s Fraternal Order of Police lodge called the newsletter’s comments “inflammatory” and in “poor taste.”
The Florida GOP slammed the city’s statement on Twitter as well, calling it an “affront to the brave men and women who sacrificed it all to protect the freedoms and individual liberty we enjoy today.”
In response to backlash across social media regarding their post, the city issued an apology, stating that the city “sincerely regrets the negative impact our words have had on some in our community.”
Pushaw responded to the apology on Twitter, stating, “this is what happens when you elect Democrats…. They do not have the same view of America as we do.”
Pushaw also slammed a response made by Florida House Rep. Anna Eskamani, who had said that the newsletter “captured the tone of how many Americans (and Orlandoans) are feeling right now.”
“Democrat elected official shares negative sentiments about 4th of July, does not think that the City of Orlando should have issued even a tepid apology to those who love America and were offended,” wrote Pushaw.
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“Democrat elected official shares negative sentiments about 4th of July, does not think that the City of Orlando should have issued even a tepid apology to those who love America and were offended,” wrote Pushaw.”
If America is so bad in the eyes of people like this, then why do you not see them packing up and leaving? Why do they want to stay in a place that is so horrible? America seems to be well-liked considering the hordes of illegal immigrants who pour in by the thousands.
The treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
Democrat Party’s actions that would have been universally condemned as criminal and even treasonous in the no so distant past are not only occurring on a regular basis, they are doing so to the applause of a sizeable number (though nowhere near a majority) of sick, twisted leftists, who no longer hide their malicious intent. These people not only roam the streets freely, they now hold public positions from which they hurl blanket condemnations against anyone who dares confront their lunatic professions and policies.
Tactics from state and federal offices have become a total mockery to the Constitution and the Rule of Law. And with each passing day, these abuses of power stray further and further from any “public health” related issue. That development was totally by design.
In truth, leftist Democrats had long sought an excuse to open their floodgates of power-grubbing corruption, to seize control over our Nation, never to relinquish it.
Worse, WHY DO THEY SERVE IT by sitting in public office?!
“In response to backlash across social media regarding their post, the city issued an apology, stating that the city “sincerely regrets the negative impact our words have had on some in our community.”
That is NOT an apology. It’s a backhanded slap.
Like always they ‘apologize” for the BACKLASH. NOT FOR actually saying what they did.
And where did this division and hate come from? It didn’t come from the people, it came from the left woke mob and the elected officials they helped elect and who are now making incredinly bad decisions at every level of government. The politicians are fueling the hate, the Jan 6 ‘hate’ committee, the misinformation witch hunts, those questioning authority labeled terrorists, making deleterious rules and regulations, a list could go on. The real problem is these people no longer listen to the total but only to their own voices and those who echo them back.
I believe that all U.S. high schools should require that in order to graduate every student must take a course on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. They must achieve a score of at least 80% to have successfully passed. If people truly understood these documents the divisions, we see today would not exist.
PITY we can’t mandate that sort of test, FOR SOMEONE TO RUN for public office!