Posted on 06/23/2023 7:39:29 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Despite his previous and most recent messaging on the campaign trail stating his opposition to COVID-19 vaccines, child gender transitioning, and the use of puberty blockers on children, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is willing to work with and take campaign cash from the individuals who are directly involved in lobbying federal legislators for the major pharmaceutical companies that are pushing the vaccines and childhood transitioning drugs.
The DeSantis Campaign is scheduled to hold a fundraiser on Friday, June 23, 2023. The $1,000 per attendee (minimum) event will take place at 1155 F Street, Suite 1200 in Washington D.C, which is the office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, the self-proclaimed largest lobbying firm by revenue in the nation’s capital. This is the same law firm whose lawyers served as lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems.
A quick check of the company’s website reveals that they proudly position themselves as a leader in Diversity, & Inclusion. Notably named on the host committee for the DC fundraiser as part of the hose committee is Marc Lampkin, who has been registered as a lobbyist for COVID 19 vaccine manufacturer Moderna since February 2021. In addition to his work with Moderna, Lampkin has also been registered as a lobbyist for Pharmaceutical manufacturer AbbVie, the maker of the youth gender transitioning drug Lupron since 2014.
Slater Bayliss is another name on the invitation for the DeSantis fundraiser host committee. The Advocacy Partners, an organization Bayliss cofounded is currently registered as a Florida lobbyist. While a candidate being supported by a lobbying firm might not be a shock in itself, this particular firm’s clients might be a surprise. Among the Advocacy Group’s portfolio of clients, you will find ABInbev, the parent company of Anheuser Busch, which makes Bud Light. This is in stark contrast to a Newsweek report showing a viral June campaign video of Ron DeSantis in which he said he refused to serve Bud Light.
In a staged campaign propaganda style video with Conservative commentator Benny Johnson, which Johnson tweeted from his Twitter account on April 17, 2023, DeSantis also said he would NEVER drink Bud Light ever again after the company created a pro-trans marketing campaign and made trans activist Dylan Mulvaney one of their key social media marketing influencers, a move which cost the company billions of dollars after they faced a massive consumer boycott.
DeSantis’s owns words in that video seem to be in conflict with his Presidential fundraising efforts. He claims one thing on video for likes and retweets, but behind closed doors, it appears DeSantis has compromised his own alleged values for the sake of making backroom deals with lobbyists who want to buy favor with him on the campaign trail.
It is worth noting that the relationship between DeSantis and Bayliss is not a new one, as Bayliss was appointed to the Florida Prepaid College Board in 2022 by Governor DeSantis. Bayliss has also earned accolades as one of the top fundraisers in DeSantis 2024 presidential bid.
Both Bayliss and Lampkin share an additional common thread outside of their lobbyist ties. Both gentlemen spent time working for the Bush family as Lampkin worked on the George W. Bush campaign as a deputy campaign manager and Bayless served as a special assistant to then Florida governor Jeb Bush, according to their respective Linkedin pages.
Additionally, Never Back Down, a Super PAC that is supporting the DeSantis 2024 Presidential campaign recently released a 30 second television advertisement hailing Ron DeSantis as the warrior who will defeat “woke culture”. However, the willingness of Ron DeSantis and his campaign’s fundraising functions to rub elbows and buy favor with Big Pharma, Trans radicals, and other woke companies he has claimed to be against should make everyone question if DeSantis is truly fighting for conservative values, or if he is rather using the “culture war” as a form of cover to dupe voters into supporting his Presidential campaign while he is funded by the very special interest groups he has previously publicly opposed.
Ron Desantis is currently scheduled to speak at The Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference on Friday, June 23, 2023, just mere hours before his scheduled DC fundraiser with his Big Pharma and Woke Lobbyists.
The Faith & Freedom Coalition openly states on their website that a part of their mission is to speak out in the public arena and in the media on behalf of Christian values. It is worth asking the Faith & Freedom Coalition how the genital mutilation of children and pushing transgender hormones onto children fits into their stated mission.
Ironically, on the issue section of their website, under the section titled Marriage and Family, Faith and Freedom Coalition features the Bible verse Matthew 19:5-6, which reaffirms that there are only two genders. This message is in conflict with the trans agenda that is being pushed by DeSantis’s DC lobbyist donors.
“He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
And if the hypocrisy of Ron DeSantis isn’t already too much to bear, on Thursday, June 22, 2023, his Presidential campaign sent out a text that featured an image of Joe Biden with the gay and trans flag in which DeSantis slammed Biden for hosting radical trans activists at the White House “who are exposing themselves at the White House…all in the name of ‘all our children’”.
How can DeSantis possible think that he and his campaign can speak against child genital mutilation, yet accept fundraising assistance from the lobbyists, Big Pharma companies, and multi-national brands that are behind the gender transitioning of minor children?
Perhaps the parents he claims to be an advocate for will ask him next week in Philadelphia where he is set to speak at the National Summit for Moms for Liberty, on June 29, 2023, given that taking money from Big Pharma companies that are sexually mutilating and chemically castrating children via the childhood, radical Trans agenda isn’t very conservative or liberty aligned.
While it remains a fact that there are only two genders, it also appears to be the case that Ron DeSantis has two faces: a public face, and a private face, that changes depending on how much campaign cash is waved in front of his eyes.
America needs a principled leader who stands by their alleged policies both in public, and behind closed doors when they are fundraising. We do not need anymore career politician liars who are willing to sell our country and our children out to the highest bidder.
This should not really surprise anyone, regardless of who we are talking about. As one position I’ve read states, “The very fact that a person is running for office should automatically disqualify them”, or something to that effect.
NO-ONE running for office is pure and clean, never what they show as their image.
The TrumpOrDie dementia runs deep with you.
Sure you want to compare Trump and DeSantis on morals? haha
Troll, troll, troll.
Yet despite the obvious goal here to divide, so many fall for it.
Does not surprise me.
DeSwampus says one thing in public.
Then meets with Rich Globalist Donors and says something else.
It’s a con by DeSwampus. .
BTTT
LOL.
That Cylinder will soon implode.
We are "allowed" to vote for him, and the DS will "allow" him to be president.
We are not "allowed" to vote for Trump, because he is threat to the DS.
We don't know the answer yet on Ron. Time will tell, if he sticks in there long enough.
Trump implied DeSantis might also experience people coming forward to claim he assaulted them -"maybe a man."
Was that Trump being trump? Probably. But we will find out.
No, we are just trying to educate those who can't see reality for themselves.
I'm glad DeSantis has exposed himself as being the poser he is. Who is so politically ambitious, that he couldn't just sit back & wait for 2028. He had my vote wrapped up for 2028. Now I'm looking for the candidate I can support in 2028, who will carry the torch to put this nation back on the right track, instead of the track to hell. So far, Kari Lake is looking very promising.
I guess our goals are different from yours. Which is fine, but I promise you, we will bury you along with your vaunted choice. DeSantis does not possess the stones to take on the criminals who have captured control of this nation. I'm not referring to just Democrats, it also includes the RINO elements within the Republican Party that make up the other segment of the Uniparty who are fleecing all Americans to feather their own nests, because they do not care about you, me or any peon citizen, any further than your vote for them.
It's not too late for you to wake up to reality. This is not an exercise in popularity at all. This is a determination to put this nation back on track, bring the Lord back into the public square, protect the true helpless innocents, the children. I hope you will join us, because our mission is so much higher than just picking a president, as you can see.
Both have had questionable histories, but then haven't most, if not all, of humans probably have questionable histories as well. We are all sinners.
The big difference is, Trump is willing to fight for this nation & her citizens.
DeSantis is willing to abandon the citizens of Florida to advance his political career.
Trump sacrificed, without regard to personal gain. We can see how the attacks on him are relentless, and that some former supporters are shallow people who can't even stand by him. Did DJT make mistakes, absolutely. He's not a career politician, and thus didn't see some of the pitfalls he would encounter, That's due in large part because he thinks people are basically good people who want to do the right thing. In politics, that is a dangerous assumption to make.
Does anyone think, his eyes haven't been opened to that reality, and will continue to hold that assumption?
With Trump the potential to make the world a better place is far greater.
DeSantis sacrifices nothing, as he had the Florida Legislature change the rules that said anyone seeking a higher office, must resign from their current office. BTW, that should tell the citizens to question something about their legislators, how many of them are RINOs? So, for DeSantis it is all about personal gain without any risk whatsoever. If he wins he advances his political career, because the Uniparty will help him win the general election. If he losses he still retains the Governorship of Florida.
The citizens of this nation will remain being the losers. Because the graft, corruption, & more importantly, the evil, will continue unabated on the road to ruination & decline.
I think the moral differences is not only already settled, there are clear & stark differences between the two men.
Not sure why everyone doesn't see the differences between them.
I think you expressed it quite well!
Good thing he’s showing his true colors this far out.
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