Florida Governor and U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has raked in millions of dollars—and even a golf simulator—from wealthy corporate interests. At the same time, he’s stripped protections from renters, let insurance & utility companies hike rates, and cut taxes on the wealthy. Jason Garcia exposes his real record.

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    1 year ago

    Well on his defense you can’t be part of the Republican party or GOP unless you do all that.

    Anyone who is low class or poor who vote Republican are the worse. Selling themselves out because of “incert reasons here”.

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      Those are the people who will always vote Republican no matter what because “that’s how mah peepaw told me to do it when I wuz a young’un”

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      Well, they would sell out public interests if they were in that position so they may not be inconsistent.

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    The Behind the Bastards podcast is doing Meatball DeSantis this week if anyone wants to learn about him watching dudes get tortured at Guantanamo Bay and his little league career.

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      The biggest takeaway for me was the timeline of his career, which made me realize the dude is only 44. I don’t know why, but I always pictured him as being much older.

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    From The Washington Post:

    ‘I could sell golf’: How DeSantis and aides courted lobbyists for campaign cash

    The efforts to effectively auction off leisure time to those seeking to influence state policy created a special pathway of access for big donors that is striking in the way that it was documented in writing, ethics experts said

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