Would somebody tell me when Our Great DeSanitizer turned into such a hanky-wringing whiner?
Oh, the Legislature’s being mean to me!
Oh, Republicans are acting like Democrats!
Oh, they’re impugning my integrity!
Oh, they’re maligning my wife!
Wow, our anti-Ron is turning whining into a political art form.
Witness his latest spontaneous outburst of feigned indignation.
“I got to tell you, I’m used to the baseless smears from liberal media. I’m used to the baseless smears from Democrats. I’ve been dealing with it for over six years. It’s par for the course. But I think now we have Republican leadership in the Florida House joining with liberal media and joining with Democrats to launch baseless smears against Hope Florida and by extension, myself and the First Lady.”
What? He couldn’t work The Pope and The Trilateral Commission into his list of sinister forces out to get him?
Listen, I don’t care if Casey DeSantis founded her non-profit Hope Florida to feed starving children in Calcutta. When Hope Florida becomes a vehicle for funneling millions of dollars to organizations that worked hand-in-hand with the Guv to defeat a ballot initiative he disliked, it’s not a charity.
It’s a washing machine.
And the Republican Legislature is gonna investigate the flow of dollars in and out of Hope Florida. Alex Andrade, chair of the House Health Care Budget Subcommittee, has said he intends to subpoena James Uthmeier who, prior to becoming Florida Attorney General was the Guv’s chief of staff.
The Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald have jointly done some excellent investigative reporting to trace the flow of $10 from a “donation” by the state’s largest Medicaid contractor (apparently out of contrition for overbilling the state by millions) to Hope Florida and subsequently to two organizations that were spearheading the campaign to defeat a legalized marijuana initiative.
“The payments, laid out in campaign finance records and documents released to the Times/Herald by the foundation on Friday, raise questions about whether the DeSantis administration diverted Medicaid dollars through Casey DeSantis’ key initiative to a political campaign.”
Oh and then there’s this revelation from The Herald:
“The Florida charity created by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration didn’t keep meeting minutes, had no budget or bylaws, didn’t file its tax returns and asked few questions before steering $10 million in Medicaid money to two dark money groups, the board’s chairperson told a House committee on Tuesday.
Wait! What about the starving kids?
I dunno. But if it looks like a washing machine, talks like a washing machine and walks like a washing machine it’s probably got a spin, rinse and repeat cycle.
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