\u201cWe don\u2019t need this kind of politics in Orlando. We don\u2019t need this racism in the state,\u201d Hill told Politico, going on to claim that Gibson had fallen for \u201cfake news\u201d about Gillum\u2019s reparations stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Andrew](\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gillum-gibsonpost-366x600.png\")
Then-candidate Ron DeSantis called an Orlando-area GOP official, Kathy Gibson, \u201cdisgusting\u201d and demanded her resignation in 2018 after she posted a meme online reporting that DeSantis\u2019s Democrat opponent, Andrew Gillum, wanted black people to be \u201cpaid back\u201d for 18th and 19th-century slavery in the United States. Additionally, DeSantis called on anyone who \u201csubscribes\u201d to the same \u201cdisgusting\u201d anti-reparations \u201cthinking\u201d of Gibson to follow her out the door of the Florida GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKathy Gibson should resign, and so should anyone else that subscribes to this sort of disgusting thinking,\u201d DeSantis told Politico at the time, in the form of a written statement. \u201cThis campaign is about issues and creating a better Florida for everyone. That\u2019s what Floridians care about, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll continue to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DeSantis was joined in his apparent outrage by Orlando\u2019s BLM-aligned<\/a> Commissioner, Regina Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe don\u2019t need this kind of politics in Orlando. We don\u2019t need this racism in the state,\u201d Hill told Politico, going on to claim that Gibson had fallen for \u201cfake news\u201d about Gillum\u2019s reparations stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n