The Florida legislator who sponsored legislation critics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay" bill was accused of illegally obtaining tens of thousands of dollars in Covid-relief funds, authorities said Wednesday.Harding, a Republican whose district is south of Gainesville, is accused of seeking Covid-relief loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 for two companies, Vak Shack Inc. and Harding Farms, according to the indictment.Harding, a home health care executive first elected in 2020, is known for having introduced a bill that prohibited classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in the state’s primary schools.Critics blasted the bill, describing it as an attack on the state's LGBTQ community and saying it could open districts up to lawsuits from parents upset about any LGBTQ-related conversation."It sends a terrible message to our youth that there is something so wrong, so inappropriate, so dangerous about this topic that we have to censor it from classroom instruction.”Harding's trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 11."