Posted on 12/12/2025 6:59:46 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer funds — an amount far greater than previously known — as part of a brazen agenda last year to defeat two ballot amendments he staunchly opposed, a Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times investigation has found. Much of the state money was intended to assist needy Floridians, including children. Instead, it paid for political consultants, lawyers and thousands of advertisements that helped DeSantis and his supporters win at the ballot box. The ads purchased with the diverted money blanketed TV, social media and radio stations in the weeks before the election. They defended Florida’s six-week abortion ban and made exaggerated claims about the dangers of marijuana without mentioning that both were the subject of ballot amendments last fall. Along the way, the governor’s administration bent state spending laws and obscured millions in government spending, records and interviews show.
The findings shed new light on the DeSantis administration’s marshaling of state resources to finance his fight against political causes supported by a majority of Florida voters. Amendment 3 would have legalized recreational marijuana. Amendment 4 would have overturned the six-week abortion ban pushed by DeSantis. Both fell just short of the 60% needed to pass. The most visible cog in his campaign — the use of the state’s Hope Florida charity — is the subject of a grand jury investigation. In that case, nearly $10 million from a Medicaid settlement was steered to a political committee controlled by the governor’s chief of staff. The new findings show that the spending was more than three times greater.
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Trump has strong evangelical support, which is mostly also support for Israel. Democrats have attacked scriptural support for Israel to drive a wedge between Christians.
Second they need to create a chameleon Christian front group to call into question the morality of the agend.
“Democrats have attacked scriptural support for Israel to drive a wedge between Christians.”
I’ve seen zero evidence of this. Scriptural arguments? Nope.
Meanwhile, there’s plenty of moral indignation about Israel coming from MTG, Carlson, Fuentes, etc.
Good luck and Merry Christmas
So, your hatred of Trump, you have also hated de Santis. Well, I suggest you visit a lobotomy surgeon and get a brain transplant to cure your hatred of GOP people. Exactly where is your proof of what you stated, or is it just hatred sneaking out??? You claim we know really where is your proof of what you stated. I recommend the Governor sue you for lying to the general public!
GOOD. The democrats made the rules. Play by their rules.
What “rules”? I pay Florida taxes and I don’t want my money going to the governor’s pet projects. I should be OK with it because he’s a Republican??
‘WE’ (conservatives) need to win. The democrats and their evil must be defeated. Sorry it takes a bit of unsavory things but I would rather see the democrats in the dustbin defeated and answer for some questionable actions then sit around in an islamic s hole run by democrats feeling ‘good’ about trying our darndest to beat them the “right” way. You don’t win a street fight using Queensbury rules.
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