Earlier this week, Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled an immigration plan focused on “performative cruelty” while in Texas that also would benefit one of his largest campaign contributors and held a town hall in New Hampshire where he continues to sink in the polls. On Thursday, he will raise money at a $6,000 per plate fundraiser in New York before speaking at the Moms For Liberty, a recently designated “extremist” group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, summit in Pennsylvania on Friday.
Altogether, that will mark eighteen days out of thirty in the month of June that Florida’s Governor will have spent outside the state he was elected to govern.
Ron’s public calendar can be seen at DeSantisWatch.org.
Meanwhile, Floridians continue to pay more than four times the national average for property insurance following average rate hikes of 40% across the state this year, with one homeowner receiving a renewal bill for $36,000 from an insurance company who has recently become a massive donor to Ron’s rubberstamp legislators that approved his $3 billion total in taxpayer bailouts to the industry.
In response, DeSantis Watch Communications Director Anders Croy issued the following statement:
“Floridians work hard and they deserve a governor who works hard for them, but while Ron DeSantis continues to collect his $141,000 taxpayer funded salary and uses the state’s taxpayer funded private jet to raise money and campaign for president, it’s the people of our state who are paying the price. Ron DeSantis likes to talk about his ‘Florida Blueprint,’ but the fact of the matter is that while his constituents are suffering under an affordability crisis he created, the Governor is using Floridians’ tax dollars as a credit card to fund his political ambitions. Americans across the country show up and do their job each day, but if Ron DeSantis is elected president, they can be sure he will always put what’s best for him and his corporate elite donors ahead of solving the real issues they are facing.”