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Exclusive: DeSantis' biggest donor says he won't give more money unless changes are made
Reuters ^ | Aug 4, 2023 | Alexandra Ulmer

Posted on 08/04/2023 3:00:56 PM PDT by backpacker_c

Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to a group supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential bid, told Reuters on Friday he will not donate more money unless the Florida governor attracts new major donors and adopts a more moderate approach.

When asked which specific policies Bigelow did not support, Bigelow cited only DeSantis signing in April a bill passed by the Florida legislature banning abortions after six weeks, a move that came after Bigelow had donated the $20 million.

Bigelow said he would not donate more money for now. "Not until I see that he's able to generate more on his own. I'm already too big a percentage," Bigelow said. "A lot of his donors are still on the fence."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; alwaysbackdown; beholdentodonors; desantis; desantiscrimefamily; election; robertbigelow
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Bigelow flexes his power to show donors dictate and control desanctimonious.....

especially if desantis 'reconsiders' his stances....

1 posted on 08/04/2023 3:00:56 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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Of course they own every president not named Trump. That’s why they don’t like Trump.


2 posted on 08/04/2023 3:02:06 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: backpacker_c

He always was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bush Crime Family Syndicate.


3 posted on 08/04/2023 3:02:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: backpacker_c

By criticizing DeSantis over Bud Light and Disney, Trump has already come out for genital mutilation for minors and gay indoctrination in schools. Even if DeSantis moderates his stances, it would be hard to get to the left of Trump.


4 posted on 08/04/2023 3:03:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: backpacker_c

DeSantis big Donors announce that he is their Bitch.

Not even pretending anymore.


5 posted on 08/04/2023 3:03:56 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Zhang Fei

Total BS


6 posted on 08/04/2023 3:07:05 PM PDT by dforest
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To: backpacker_c

Did Trump’s holdings of Budweiser stock influence his position on the Bud Light controversy?


https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-silent-bud-light-dylan-mulvaney-boycott-investor-2023-4
[Trump’s most recent 101-page disclosures form, which was filed with the Federal Election Commission on April 14, shows that Trump owns between $1 million and $5 million in Anheuser Busch InBev under an account listed as “DJT Trust — Investment Account #2.”

While the former president has been quiet about the Bud Light outrage, his son, Donald Trump Jr., has called for the boycott to end.

During an April 13 broadcast of his “Triggered” podcast, Don Jr. said: “I’m not for destroying an American, an iconic company, for something like this. The company itself doesn’t participate in the same leftist nonsense as the other big conglomerates.”]


7 posted on 08/04/2023 3:07:36 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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Bull...

Trump has not advocated for ‘genital mutilation for minors and gay indoctrination in schools.’

You desantis supporters/nevertrumpers with your false narratives and lies aren’t going to change support for Trump, except possibly increase it, at this point.


8 posted on 08/04/2023 3:09:44 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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“Unless he adopts a more moderate approach”

🤡🤣

9 posted on 08/04/2023 3:12:52 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Zhang Fei

More lies from you...

Most 401ks, pensions, and broad based mutual funds probably have money invested in A.B.

You’re going to have to say everyone that has such investments are people who want genital mutilation and gay indoctrination then.


10 posted on 08/04/2023 3:13:46 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

The money is leaving Florida Man.

Who y’all NeverTrump McRomBush D-Bags gonna start fluffin’ next?

Turn out the lights, the party’s over.

Plenty room on the Trump Train.
Love to have ya join.
All Aboard!

Roll MAGA, roll!


11 posted on 08/04/2023 3:15:45 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: backpacker_c

Go away and take your rinos with you, Bigglebutt.


12 posted on 08/04/2023 3:20:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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"and adopts a more moderate approach"

No more money until he completely morphs into Jeb.

Will he dance on a string like a puppet?
Without a doubt - right up to the point where he's polling alongside Miami mayor Suarez.
13 posted on 08/04/2023 3:26:52 PM PDT by indthkr
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adopts a more moderate approach.

His recent movements toward being moderate/establishment are what have caused a great portion of his decline.


14 posted on 08/04/2023 3:32:44 PM PDT by TomGuy
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>> Bigelow flexes his power to show donors dictate and control desanctimonious.....

That’s the sad part of RdS’s ill-advised candidacy.

He is now beholden to those who believe we must “moderate” the influence of the GOP on the cultural ills besetting our once-great nation... and battling that culture is the very thing that RdS emphasizes as his strengths. To be specific: combatting the alphabet-people influence on culture; anti-woke; anti-BLM; etc.

He’s between a rock and a hard place. And he chose that position!

A watered-down DeSantis can’t compete, nor can he offer solutions to our most vexing problems.

Who among us remembers Bill Clinton’s “triangulation”? That is the unhappy, unproductive postion that Ron DeSantis has PLACED HIMSELF into.


15 posted on 08/04/2023 3:42:14 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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Trump has already come out for genital mutilation for minors and gay indoctrination in schools

BS.

NBC reporting: "(on Truth Social) Trump said he would task several federal agencies to police and ultimately “stop” gender-affirming care for minors, which he equated to “child abuse” and “child sexual mutilation.”

He said he would also prohibit any federal agency from working to “promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age," not just for minors."

16 posted on 08/04/2023 3:45:15 PM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Zhang Fei

That’s illlogical

You seem to like to jump to conclusions


17 posted on 08/04/2023 3:57:14 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Robert DeLong

“Of course they own every president not named Trump. That’s why they don’t like Trump.”

Exactly right. No more talk of getting rid of the deep state or they will cut off his donor money.


18 posted on 08/04/2023 4:13:11 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Zhang Fei

What does it do for you to post lies?


19 posted on 08/04/2023 4:21:03 PM PDT by JayGalt
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To: Zhang Fei

The business insider is your goto, they are leftist 🤡😱🤣


20 posted on 08/04/2023 7:33:34 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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