Governor Ron DeSantis signed budget legislation for his state of Florida while vetoing over $3 billion in spending that would have included a potential spring training facility for the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Republican governor “issued $3.13 billion in vetoes Thursday as he signed a record $109.9 billion budget for the fiscal year that will begin July 1,” reported WUSF, noting that the vetoes included $35 million for a sports complex in Pasco County which was slated to be a training facility for the professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Reports quickly linked the veto to the recently published call to end gun violence by the Rays, with Outkick’s Bobby Burack writing, “DeSantis’s decision is in response to the Rays politicizing recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde ahead of a matchup with the Yankees in May.”
