Statement re. Signing of SB 1296, Attributed to Andrew Spar, President of the Florida Education Association Floridians. Today, the Governor’s signing of SB 1296 is yet another entry in a long line of betrayals of working Floridians by Gov. DeSantis in favor of out-of-state, billionaire-backed, special interest groups. It’s not lost on us that the Governor has signed an anti-worker bill on May Day, a day grounded in the labor movement and the belief that working people deserve power and dignity.