Even with Florida’s hopes, DeSantis is in a fierce ruler

If you have an hour or two to kill, google’s “Desantis” and “Lashes out.”

Desantis is Fla. It is built through a wife’s project in Gop (Washington Post, April 25, 2025)Desantis will assault in two proposed constitutional amendments (WCJB/TV-20, April 5, 2024).DeSantis assaults members of the audience in a Jacksonville shooting (Politics, September 7, 2023)Desantis Campaign denounces Donald Trump’s Pro-LGBT Comment (The Times of London, July 4, 2023)DeSantis assaults with a reporter during the suspension of New Hampshire campaign: “Are you blind?” (Forbes, June 1, 2023)Desantis will again assault on Disney (CBS News Miami, April 7, 2023)Desantis condemns “critical race theory” with push to overhaul Florida’s Civics curriculum (News4Jax, March 17, 2021)DeSantis assaults in the media for coverage of the Super Bowl Virus (CBS News Miami, February 10, 2021)Desantis blames DOH employees and claims they were asked to censor the coronavirus (WFTS Tampa Bay, May 20, 2020)

There are more, but you get my point. Rushouts are typical of Desantis. That’s how he rules.

That came to mind last week when Casey DeSantis joined her husband and ousted Florida’s first project, Florida pet project, from public aid. A Times/Herald investigation reveals that the DeSantis administration has defeated the state to Medicaid contractors bypassing $10 million from a massive settlement that has departed the state’s funding from the state’s sources to hopeful Florida fundraisers. A few weeks later, the charity gave the two nonprofits $10 million, sending almost all of them to a political committee overseen by DeSantis’ Chief of Staff. The committee was created to oppose last year’s statewide referendum to legalize recreational marijuana, which DeSantis opposed.

Casey DeSantis, who appeared with the governor at Brandon last week, dismissed serious criticism of Florida’s hopes as “a slanderous and false allegation.” What was slanderous or wrong? She didn’t say. And while Casey DeSantis played Koi on a report running for her husband’s successor in 2026, the first lady said Florida’s next governor should be “in the DeSantis mold that’s willing to go out there and fight.”

I hope Florida will be the biggest since Florida sliced ​​bread. And I think it’s still strange to see the governor and his wife in public on their own.

But I hope Florida isn’t the biggest since sliced ​​bread. Like many of the Desantis Touch, it is buried in secret and bloated with unnatural admiration. The state does not provide detailed information on program performance. State legislative analysis found that the funding department of nonprofits has not filed or audited tax returns under state law. The board also held meetings in secret, violated the state’s public meeting laws and did not maintain budgets or bylaws. If anything, Florida hopes that Desantis will look like a terrible execution and tax subsidy gimmick that they want to target with the Florida Doge task force. However, he toured the state again last week, doubling it in defending Hope Florida.

As the First Lady was indicted, there is a simple way to determine whether these criticisms are false or slanderous. I swear to be a witness. Throw away everyone. Outsources external audits. Ask U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy and the Internal Revenue Service to investigate. On Tuesday, Leon County prosecutors said they had launched a criminal investigation related to Hope Florida. The governor can also instruct all involved to open a record. He just gets the phone.

What’s behind Florida doesn’t surprise me – it’s not a secret, sarcasm, sleepiness from the surgical, or the possibility that people have broken the law. Over the past week, more shoes have fallen after one nonprofit president involved in the exchange of money has resigned and said his board was left in the dark. On Friday, two Democrats from Congress called on federal healthcare agencies to investigate. In a report Sunday, the current and former foster care agency leader told the Tampa Bay Times they hope Florida replicates their work and receives resources from existing programs.

But one thing from this event surprises me. The idea is that anyone who spent seven years at DeSantis would need a successor that Florida continues to ruin for the fight. How did you become a suitable model for governors and public services? Have we been paralyzed by this ruthlessness in the state? Was there no one elected US Senate states, no one elected, no one attorney general, and none immediately the lieutenant governor and chief financial officer?

Now it’s intense.