Later today, Governor Ron DeSantis will take time out of his busy schedule of holding fundraisers with billionaires and the corporate elite outside the state he was elected to serve to give a speech on energy policy in Midland, Texas. Throughout his time on the presidential campaign trail, Florida’s Governor has repeatedly sought to minimize the impacts of the climate crisis, while pushing to loosen regulations around pollution and promote the interests of fossil fuel corporations.
While Governor DeSantis does the bidding of corporate polluters on the campaign trail, his federal financial disclosure also reveals that the only investment the Governor has outside of his Florida Retirement System account is a holding in the United States Oil Fund.
In response, DeSantis Watch Constituencies Director Natasha Sutherland issued the following statement:
“While we work hard to preserve our way of life as Americans, our environment, and the communities we call home, corporate polluters are paying off politicians like Ron DeSantis to ignore the climate crisis, leaving us to suffer and pay the cost. As we endure record-breaking heat and more frequent natural disasters all across the country, the last thing we need is Ron DeSantis’ rehashed version of the same ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ policies of failed national Republican politicians in the past. It’s no surprise though that the Governor will do anything to line his own pockets and those of his billionaire and corporate elite donors, but it is another clear example of why America cannot afford Ron DeSantis as president.”