No-confidence vote for Sasse school bid
By a margin of 65-15, the Faculty Senate of the University of Florida has approved a no-confidence vote on the selection of US Sen. Ben Sasse as the sole finalist for the school's presidency.

Sasse's selection had been criticized by the United Faculty of Florida union, and the school's student senate, citing the senator's lack of experience in running a school so large, and his conservative stances on same-sex marriage and other LGBTQ issues.

"The process is the biggest problem here, because we don't know who those other candidates were," argued Breann Garbas, the Faculty Senate member who drafted the motion. "We don't know anything about them, and we have no input in this and no say in it as a faculty as a whole."

Sasse would resign from the Senate for the position, but he's not in quite yet. The school's board of trustees and the state board of governors each have to vote for him and confirm his appointment.

South Carolina candidates spar over Gay rights
In a debate for the state's gubernatorial seat, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said that he would support his state's defunct ban on same-sex marriage if the Supreme Court overturned its 2015 ruling on the subject.

"Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think marriage ought to be between a man and woman — just like I think that boys ought to play in boy sports and girls ought to play in girl sports," McMaster, 75, said, firmly in line with current Republican talking points.

"But, I mean there's — you have to have some common sense in this arena, which seems to be changing all the time," he added. "But I think our traditions are strong and for a reason."

Former Rep. Joe Cunningham, a Democrat and McMaster's foremost opponent in the race, seemed shocked. "It's 2022, and Gov. McMaster wants to ban same-sex marriage — you just heard that tonight, folks," Cunningham said. "We have politicians that have been in government so long and have become so calcified in their beliefs, and Gov. McMaster has been a politician literally longer than I've been alive, and he's been taking our state backwards the entire time."

"Gov. McMaster has been leading South Carolina into the 1950s since the 1980s," Cunningham said.