{"id":316634,"date":"2026-06-23T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316634\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:22:09","slug":"sen-rick-scott-starts-petition-to-cancel-ye-shows-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316634\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rick Scott starts petition to cancel Ye shows in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida’s senior senator has started a petition to try to cancel this week’s concerts by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium. <\/p>\n

As of late Monday, a Change.org<\/a> petition created by U.S. Sen. Rick Scott had 8,558 signatures.<\/p>\n

“Kanye West\u2019s concerts in Tampa scheduled for June 26th and 28th should NOT take place in Raymond James Stadium \u2014 a venue supported with public funds,” the petition reads. “There\u2019s no place for antisemitism in Florida, especially at the expense of the taxpayer.”<\/p>\n

The Republican labeled the hip-hop artist, now known as Ye, an \u201cantisemite\u201d and called for the Tampa Sports Authority to cancel his concerts at a press conference last week at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: Ye or nay? Florida senators blast decision to host controversial rapper at Ray Jay<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe should never allow antisemitism anywhere, and we have to stand up against it,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

Ye has made public antisemitic comments in recent years, including posting \u201cI am a Nazi\u201d on social media, selling shirts with swastikas on them, and releasing a music video titled \u201cHeil Hitler.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January, Ye apologized for his statements in a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: Ye concerts in Tampa have Jewish community, others speaking out<\/a><\/p>\n

This month, Scott penned a letter to the Tampa Sports Authority, the organization that operates the county-owned stadium, urging it to cancel the Ye Live Concert Tour scheduled for Friday and Sunday. <\/p>\n

Joe Probasco, past president of the Tampa Jewish Community Center, said it was not a First Amendment issue, but one of “timing and tone deafness of the moment we’re in.”
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A statement released by the sports authority stated it did not condone Ye’s remarks but \u201cwe follow the principles of free speech in operating our venue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida’s senior senator has started a petition to try to cancel this week’s concerts by the rapper formerly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-316634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}