Rainbow lights on Florida bridge marking Pride Month turned back on after backlash.
“The Governor was most definitely not involved in that decision, and it’s absurd to think otherwise,” DeSantis’ communications director Taryn Fenske said. “The bridge lights will be back up for the remainder of the week.”
Brody noted that just last year the FDOT raised no objections to the city bathing the bridge in red, white and blue lights to honor Covid-19 victims, but came up with technical excuses when he requested rainbow lights for Pride Month. The order to turn off the rainbow colored lights on the Acosta Bridge appears to have come from a FDOT official named Mark Kuhn, according to an email supplied to NBC News by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority.
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