Last week the New York Times reported the DeSantis team had raised $30 million in the last month. Time Magazine is now reporting that $20 million of that financing came from one donor, billionaire Robert Bigelow.Posted on 04/23/2023 11:51:39 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Robert Bigelow is a billionaire space industrialist and hotel conglomerate owner. In addition to his vast wealth, Bigelow believes space aliens are already on earth and we just have not discovered them yet. Bigelow gives a lot of money to republicans.
Last week the New York Times reported the DeSantis team had raised $30 million in the last month. Time Magazine is now reporting that $20 million of that financing came from one donor, billionaire Robert Bigelow.
(Via Time) – t’s been a rough two weeks for Ron DeSantis. Members of Congress from his own state have been endorsing Donald Trump in droves. A crippling gas shortage in South Florida coincided with the governor’s travel from South Carolina to South Korea, fueling a spate of negative headlines and “Where’s Ron?” memes. He’s been dropping in the polls. And perhaps most threatening to his presidential ambitions—some of his donors are pulling out.
But none of that is shaking the confidence of Robert Bigelow, the hotel tycoon and aeronautics executive who reveals to TIME that he is the largest donor by far to Never Back Down Inc., a super PAC backing DeSantis’s unofficial campaign for President. Bigelow, who was also the single-largest donor to DeSantis’s 2022 reelection bid, confirms that he has already donated a little more than $20 million to Never Back Down. He says that’s just a start. The super-rich businessman plans to continue putting his wealth behind sending the Florida governor to the Oval Office. “I will give him more money and go without food,” Bigelow says.
His initial donation is a substantial increase from the $10 million contribution he made to DeSantis in the midterms last July. Bigelow, who is based in Las Vegas, says he made the $20 million donation on March 27. A senior Never Back Down official recently told The New York Times that the PAC raised $30 million from March 9 to April 3, meaning two-thirds of those dollars came from Bigelow. (read more)
DeSantis might be filling up the bank accounts, but winning hearts and minds…. not so much.
Former Congressman David Trott (R-MI) – […] “I sat right next to DeSantis for two years on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and he never said a single word to me,” Trott said. “I was new to Congress, and he didn’t introduce himself or even say hello.”
“I go to my first hearing early, and DeSantis showed up right at the gavel time and didn’t say hello or introduce himself,” Trott told Politico. “And then the next hearing, the same thing happened. I think the third time it happened, I thought, ‘Oh, this guy’s not ever going to say hello to me.’” He said he eventually introduced himself to DeSantis.
Trott acknowledged that while DeSantis was talented at pressing his political ambitions, he was not likable.
“He never developed any relationships with other members that I know of. You’d never see him talking on the floor with other people or palling around. He’s just a very arrogant guy, very focused on Ron DeSantis,” Trott said.
He added:
He wasn’t really liked when he was in Congress. And now it’s coming home to, you know, prove out as some of the Florida delegation endorsed Trump and and some of the donors, you know, think he’s kind of awkward in terms of how he interacts with them. … If his pre-presidential campaign was playing out differently, then I’d say, ‘Well, maybe he just didn’t like me.’ But I think there’s something more at work here.”
Trott concluded, “I think he’s an asshole. I don’t think he cares about people.” (More)
Perhaps this explains why the DeSantis team needs to photoshop handshakes.
Aliens do exist . . . at the southern border.
He can believe what he wants. Meanwhile, money is money.
There is nothing vague or unidentified about cold cash.
Did they really do that with the handshake? That’s embarrassing, even for Meatball Ron.
Twenty Million and Dinesh Desuza went to jail for donating a couple grand over the limit to an acquaintance. Laws are not for everyone anymore.
Ah, well that should endear DeSantis more to some of his detractors around here, given they peddle articles and news sources from a person who says they had an affair with an alien and their mother was an alien, etc.
Hey Ron, Money can’t buy you love
As I said....
Didja ever notice that the more liberal a talking head or strategist is, the thinner their lips are? Zeti Reticulans are among us, people; the lizards are here!
Lori Lightfoot is the most obvious alien mutant running around but certainly not the only one.
The D’Souza incident was an illegal straw man donation involving $20,000. I don't want first generation Americans breaking election laws any more than I want ward-heel politicians in Chicago breaking election laws.
Hopefully this billionaire is making donations legally. If not, put him in jail.
His bragging about making contributions would bother me if I was the candidate. Campaign staff should route this bird through a metal detector prior to photo opportunities.
That’s just for his book tour
Spending money
Judging the behavior of the government over the years, I’d say aliens do exist.
Bigelow was a huge friend with Harry Reid and other top democrats who were interested in UFO’s. Not sure what their agenda is but if Bigelow wants the whole issue kept under wraps, business as usual, thenRon is his guy. If people want full disclosure, you might want to start a new party with members not beholden to the shadow government.
Aliens with pancakes on their heads.
DeSantis reels in giant fish buys new house...................
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