Posted on 10/16/2023 7:08:58 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Within two days of announcing Florida would arrange transportation for Americans stranded in Israel and bring them to Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis welcomed home nearly 300 Sunday night.
We’re happy to be able to deliver and ready to welcome them back to the United States of America.”
Florida partnered with Project Dynamo to bring nearly 300 Americans home from Israel, including more than 270 to Tampa and seven to Orlando on Sunday.
“I am proud of how quickly we have been able to activate resources and do what the federal government could not – get Floridians and other Americans back home, reunited with their families, free of charge,” DeSantis said.
The support we are receiving from Governor DeSantis, the First Lady, FDEM Executive Director Kevin Guthrie, Florida Commerce Secretary Alex Kelly, FDLE Commissioner Mark Glass and his entire administration and the state is overwhelming. We are very grateful for the special flights and supplies.”
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There are roughly 20,000 Americans, including many Floridians, who are stranded in Israel, according to some reports.
The U.S. State Department encouraged stranded Americans to book commercial flights while also recognizing that these flights were being canceled "due to mortar and rocket fire that may take place without warning."
It also encouraged Americans to arrange and pay for their own lodging. Any transportation out of Israel the federal government might be able to provide requires Americans to sign a promissory note prior to departure, according to a partial State Department emails posted on social media.
By contrast, the Florida government is providing free transportation to stranded Americans wanting to come home.
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First state-coordinated flight from Israel – CREDIT: WINK News
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Kirby was doing his best “honest broker” imitation. It shouted weakness, like his boss FJB does every day.
So if Trump isn't the Republican nominee for POTUS in 2024, what will you do? Not vote at all, thereby committing political suicide?
Who said it was a bad thing? My point was - How much credit does DeSantis deserve? He partnered with a group that was already there carrying out its mission. What did DeSantis bring to the table? If he helped cut some red tape, etc., good for him, but let’s not pretend the rescue wouldn’t have happened without him if that’s not the case.
Meatball hasn’t as much as mentioned the Floridians being persecuted by the J6 witch hunt, how about he starts with naming them and then we can move on from there?
I have plenty of evidence from 1988 up to today, over 30 years worth, to make my judgement of the worthlessness of the GOPe donor class and the puppets that they control. I only see more of the same sad con job and I will not fall for it again. Apparently most of the GOP voters agree with me and that's why DeSantis is sucking hind tit like a bought-and-paid-for runt.
DeSantis had a trajectory that was up and now it is just all down and is not going to change. Sucks to be you.
Republican voters will never get what they want until we get our own house in order and that means getting rid of the traitorous GOPe leadership at the top. True fact.
DeSantis knows how to make things happen that need to happen. Still backing Trump...
C'mon, can't you be more original? Anyway, a non-sequitur, since I don't have a dog in this fight. I'll take Trump and I'll also vote for DeSantis.
OK, so you've been black-pilled. I get it. I understand your disgust and share it to a great extent, actually. But your willingness to immediately turn on people on your own side of the political aisle is a weakness, a big weakness, and one that the left is happy to exploit. As I said before, hook, line and sinker.
That will bring you only defeat, and it's your own doing.
Keep being an idiot and voting for cheese-eating, surrender-monkey-for-rent DeSantis and wonder why your are being loaded on a train to one of Hillary’s reeducation camps.
Works for me. I'll take either man, although I would be more inclined to see Trump regain the Presidency so he can burn Washington DC down. At this sorry juncture, sometimes you have to wonder if that's the only way the Swamp will ever be drained.
Keep ranting and raving, and maybe you won’t have a stroke. Then again, maybe that would be a good thing, and shut your demented ass up. You’re stinking up the place.
What a conundrum for you. Donald Trump did not sanction the rescue of Floridians from Israel. Therefore, Ron DeSantis must be minimized for his efforts to bring Floridians home. Your web is tangled.
Yeppers!
This is true!
Florida Congressman Cory Mills actually went over there and personally brought home stranded Americans
I like Governor DeSantis! He is a great governor!
HST, I want! I NEED! President Trump back in the White House!
DeSantis needs to drop out and endorse President Trump!
Well, you should write his office, or at least call, and let them know that. Seriously. Whether or not you live in Florida, he's running for a national office, so your option is as valid as anyone else's.
Thanks, Joe. I have already done that, but since he ignored my advice three times to not run for President, I doubt he will take my advice now.
HST, I will do as you suggest!
Well, if you’ve already contacted DeSantis’ office three times, I’d say that should suffice. Good on you — too many folks just complain but don’t act. Action is what gets things done. Usually.
Yes. Exactly.
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