In furtherance of that suggestion, I offer the following interesting personal experience. Last night, I was dining at a local Florida restaurant with some out of town visitors. One of our party was friends with the management on duty, and, as we left, this person told us that the president of Hungary was dining in the same restaurant that evening. As we walked toward the street, we noticed a modest motorcade with police escort preparing to receive a party from within the restaurant.
The motorcade left before we did, but when we arrived at the hotel our out of town guests were staying at, the same motorcade pulled up behind us, and the president of Hungary, along with friends and security, poured out of a vehicle that looked like a cross between a tacky RV and a limo. Katalin Novak was dressed in pretty ordinary street clothes and could have passed for an American suburban mother, but there she was. The president of Hungary, a close ally of authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn.
At first I didn’t believe it. When I researched a little online, I found that Novak had spoken at the UN yesterday. What would she be doing in Tallahassee later the same day? Then I found an online English language Hungarian news outlet that confirmed she was indeed scheduled to be in Tallahassee today:
https://hungarytoday.hu/president-novak ... -of-women/
One of our party caught me in the hall today and said that not only was Novak at the restaurant, but that Orbàn had been too. I have not thus far been able to confirm that.Novák’s official visit to the United States continues in Tallahassee, Florida on Tuesday.
So why would these Hungarian leaders be in Tallahassee on Tuesday, March 7?
https://www.wtxl.com/news/florida-news/ ... te-addressFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a speech on the state of Florida at the Florida Capitol Tuesday as the state legislature also begins its regular session.
Not very comforting to know that foreign authoritarian leaders go out of their way to pay court to the governor of Florida.
