DeSantis doles out millions to mostly rural areasbut fails to mention it mostly comes from Uncle Sam

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DeSantis doles out millions but fails to mention it mostly comes from Uncle Sam

Gov. Ron DeSantis has been on a spending spree for months, taking credit for millions of dollars in federal stimulus money he’s handing out to mostly rural Republican counties while at the same time bashing President Biden’s big government spending.

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“I think it’s hypocritical,” said Ben Wilcox, research director for Tallahassee-based government watchdog group Integrity Florida. “He’s taking credit for something that’s not really his to claim credit for.”

One political strategist said it’s part of a plan to shore up DeSantis’ base and win bigger this time compared with his razor-thin 33,000-vote victory in the 2018 governor’s race, thus boosting his profile for a possible run for the presidency in 2024.


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DeSantis has repeatedly called the federal stimulus money “Washington at its worst” and blames it for the nation’s high inflation rate.

“We’re proud we didn’t do like Washington and spent money like a drunken sailor when all of a sudden you end up with all these problems,” he said at a recent event in Trenton where he doled out federally funded grants.

DeSantis never mentions the largesse he is sharing comes from Washington. Instead, he attributes the money to Florida’s strong economy as he hands out oversized checks at campaign-style events, calling himself “DeSantis Claus” on at least one occasion.

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‘Borderline campaign events’
The appearances, almost always in DeSantis-friendly territory, “are borderline campaign events,” Wilcox said.

He often spends the first 15 or 20 minutes delivering a stump speech sharing his views on inflation, gas prices, the culture wars, COVID lock downs, Elon Musk’s proposed acquisition of Twitter and China. Those topics seem geared more toward a national audience than a local one, Stipanovich said.

Despite being billed as press conferences, he seldom takes questions from reporters who attend.

[In It to Win It]

1. Florida tax cuts brought to you by none other than Mr. Joe Biden

which does help inflation. Politically, it's perfect. He gets credit for tax cuts which makes our inflation problem worse and he gets to blame Joe Biden for it.

I read this yesterday but before I read it, I was thinking about this as it relates to the Disney debacle.

If the state is taking over the Disney district rather than absorbing it in the surrounding counties, the state is also taking on the debt. That means the Disney debt will be paid for by THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. The country will pay Disney debt all because I have a giant crybaby for a governor.

The country is funding all of this asshole's re-election grandstanding.

[Phoenix61]

2. Please explain how a bond debt absorbed by the state

is going to be paid by people not living in Florida. nt

[In It to Win It]

4. DeSantis, in explaining that the state will take over the district, says something like the citizens

of the counties won't have to worry about the debt because the state will take over the district (not the counties) and that he has the biggest surplus ever. He implies that if it came to it, the debt will be the state's problem and that it will be paid for with the state's "biggest surplus." The reason he has the "biggest surplus" ever is because COVID stimulus from the federal government, the Biden administration. He will be using federal government dollars - the money from the people of the United States - to pay the Disney debt. (*in my dramatic voice*)

I don't know if the debt will ultimately be absorbed by the state, but he definitely put it out there that Floridians won't have to worry because he has the biggest surplus.

[senseandsensibility]

3. The average trumper doesn't even know that Medicare is from

the government. They are very easy to lead because of such ignorance.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. #3 Socialist Moocher State Says What? Someone ought to teach them about pulling up by bootstraps.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Every newspaper in Florida should be calling him out.

Front page news.

[maxsolomon]

7. He's Pappy O'Daniels

"I invented moral rectitude, you sum' bitch!"