DeSantis resigns from Congress to focus on the gubernatorial race, he says he doesn’t want to take a salary not being there.
Patently unnecessary, it’s not like the district now will get a full time Congressman, it’ll just be vacant. His last few months salary is a drop in the bucket, I hope there are no close votes at the end of the session.
It’s a preemptive strike against the doubtlessly coming Democrat ads accusing DeSantis of receiving a salary despite not showing up for work. It also saves his campaign time and money not to have to fly back and forth to DC.
I respect that, it reminds me when Bob Dole resigned from the Senate after he got the GOP nomination for President, saying it wasn't fair to his constiuents to continue holding the title of "Senator" and collecting a salary when he couldn't be there to do the job.
Sadly, no Senators since then followed his lead. Joe LIEberman, John Kerry, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and John McCain had no qualms whatsoever of not only being "Senator" In Name Only, but running for re-election as "Senator" WHILE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT/VICE-PRESIDENT so they had a "fall back" political job in case they lost. In the case when they DID lose, they pretty much stayed in the Senate until the bitter end.
I'll take Bob Dole and Ron DeSantis' decision over that any day.