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Meatball Ron DeSatan and his fascist band of cowardly Republicans

Apparently Ron's wife insisted on staying only in luxury hotels and flying private jets.

"The DeSantises put on a good show of being an ordinary American family, but their disdain for the masses is evidenced by their disdain for commercial flights. In 2023, a now-defunct Florida economic development agency footed Ron and Casey's $1.6 million chartered jet bill for their one-week trade mission around the world. (It also paid $66,000 for hotels and $9,800 for meals. That's $9,000 a night for hotels and $1,400 a day for meals.)"

And here's the Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson on Meatball's presidential campaign: "This was always a delusion on the part of DeSantis and a sales pitch on the part of Jeff Rowe. They went through a total of about $130 million to $140 million, as far as we can estimate right now, to end up spending about $30,000 per voter they got in Iowa. They are out of money, they're out of time. They spent an incredible amount of their campaign resources and super PAC resources because Casey can't fly commercial, because she has to be on private jets. They burned through tens of millions of dollars, it looks like, on private jet travel."

 
Don't get me wrong, it's fun to laugh at the private jets and the total waste of money. But at the end of the day, if Casey really wanted to be First Lady, her biggest mistake was marrying a total goober. I guess it got her first lady of Florida. (Or "flof," as Gisele Fetterman might say.)

I'd love to see the change in Jeff Rowe's net worth over the last year.
 
Politics is so corrupt that we can just brush over that a company that no longer exists spent $1.6M to fly a governor/presidential candidate and his wife (and kids?) around the world on a "one-week trade mission." One week. Seven days. Over $200K a day in travel expenses. Footed by Enterprise Florida who took public funds.
 
PhDeac said:
Politics is so corrupt that we can just brush over that a company that no longer exists spent $1.6M to fly a governor/presidential candidate and his wife (and kids?) around the world on a "one-week trade mission." One week. Seven days. Over $200K a day in travel expenses. Footed by Enterprise Florida who took public funds.
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Well, that’s depressing.
 
I highly doubt it will happen, but it would be something if Casey divorces him now that he's just a washed-up pol and no longer useful for her own ambitions and purposes.
 
From the article linked above: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/06/desantis-travel-campaign-expenses-00120465

Enterprise Florida records show that $1.49 million for the cost of the international mission went toward transportation, while more than $66,000 was spent on hotels and nearly $9,800 on meals. Another $20,000 was spent on “programs and mission administration.”

Records show that of the total spent on transportation, nearly $1.39 million, was for the cost of two charter jets that flew a total of 20 passengers around the globe.

When DeSantis went on a trip to Israel in 2019 with members of the Florida Cabinet and a delegation of nearly 100 people, the News Service of Florida reported that the cost totaled more than $442,000, with more than $131,000 going to pay the costs of then-Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and other state employees.
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20 people. Two jets.

I wouldn't be surprised if Casey divorced him either, but he'll still be governor for almost 3 years. Should still be some charter flights to come.
 
A measles outbreak is growing in Florida, but the state's Trumpite, DeSantis-appointed Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, refuses to change his views that vaccines cause cancer or (in the case of the covid vaccine) that they're the "work of the devil."

From The Guardian article:

"[Now], with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation’s third most-populous state. As the highly contagious disease raged in a Broward county elementary school, Ladapo, a politically appointed acolyte of Florida’s far-right governor Ron DeSantis, wrote to parents telling them it was perfectly fine for parents to continue to send in their unvaccinated children.

“The surgeon general is Ron DeSantis’s lapdog, and says whatever DeSantis wants him to say,” said Dr Robert Speth, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at south Florida’s Nova Southeastern University with more than four decades of research experience. “His statements are more political than medical and that’s a horrible disservice to the citizens of Florida. He’s somebody whose job is to protect public health, and he’s doing the exact opposite.”

 
Highland Deac said:
A measles outbreak is growing in Florida, but the state's Trumpite, DeSantis-appointed Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, refuses to change his views that vaccines cause cancer or (in the case of the covid vaccine) that they're the "work of the devil."

From The Guardian article:

"[Now], with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation’s third most-populous state. As the highly contagious disease raged in a Broward county elementary school, Ladapo, a politically appointed acolyte of Florida’s far-right governor Ron DeSantis, wrote to parents telling them it was perfectly fine for parents to continue to send in their unvaccinated children.

“The surgeon general is Ron DeSantis’s lapdog, and says whatever DeSantis wants him to say,” said Dr Robert Speth, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at south Florida’s Nova Southeastern University with more than four decades of research experience. “His statements are more political than medical and that’s a horrible disservice to the citizens of Florida. He’s somebody whose job is to protect public health, and he’s doing the exact opposite.”

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Those bolded things go together, sadly.
 
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