TALLAHASSEE – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill the United States Senate seat being vacated by US Senator Marco Rubio.
In response, DeSantis Watch Communications Director Anders Croy released the following statement:
“While Florida’s Attorney General is an independent constitutional officer whose role is to serve as the ‘people’s lawyer,’ Ashley Moody has instead been a subservient personal attorney for the Governor who has viewed her job as defending his most extreme and anti-freedom policies that do nothing to raise wages or lower costs for workers and seniors.
“Throughout his time as governor, Ron DeSantis, with the help of Attorney General Ashley Moody, has spent millions of taxpayer dollars in court to defend unconstitutional laws and help their corporate elite donors instead of following the law and doing their jobs to address the real issues impacting Floridians during our state’s affordability crisis.
“Floridians deserve a United States Senator who will focus on lowering costs, fighting for their freedoms, and putting their needs first, but Ron DeSantis’ self-serving selection of Ashley Moody proves that the only qualification he was interested in was someone with absolute loyalty to the Governor’s long-term political ambitions.”
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