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Here’s what you don’t know about Fla Gov. Ron DeSantis
Teller Report ^ | July 30,2022 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 07/30/2022 8:25:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk

There is no one in the Democrat party or Democrat media axis fit to shine this man’s boots.

Meet Ron Desantis. Born on September 14, 1978, in Jacksonville, Florida.

[1] He is of Italian descent.

2] His family moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating to Dunedin, Florida, when he was six years old.

[3] In 1991, he was a member of the Little League team from Dunedin National that made it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

[4] After graduating from Dunedin High School in 1997, he attended Yale University. He was Captain of Yale varsity baseball team and joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

[5] On the Yale baseball team, he was an outfielder; as a senior in 2001, he had the team’s best batting average at .336.

[6] He graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in History.

[7] He then spent a year as a History Teacher at the Darlington School.

8] He attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor Cum Laude.

[9] He received his Reserve Naval Officer’s commission and assignment to the Judge Advocate Generals Corps (JAG) in 2004 at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Dallas, Texas, while still a student at Harvard Law School.

[10] He completed Naval Justice School in 2005.

[11] Later that year, he received orders to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a Prosecutor.

[12] In 2006, he was promoted from Lieutenant, Junior Grade to Lieutenant. He worked for the Commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working directly with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Joint Detention Facility.

[13] In 2007, he reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One anddeployed to Iraq with the Troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEALCommander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.

[14] He returned to the U.S. in April 2008, at which time he was reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service.

[15] The U.S. Department of Justice appointed him to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida.

[16] He was assigned as a Trial Defense Counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010.

[17] He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the US Navy Reserve.

[18] He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Iraq Campaign Medal.

[19] He represented Florida’s 6th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.

Oh, by the way, this former Navy Lt. and SEAL, is – Ron DeSantis,Governor of Florida.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desantis; fl; florida; notaseal
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To: cdcdawg

“Looks like he gets it.”

He gets it!


121 posted on 07/30/2022 11:29:54 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Owen

Did Ron himself ever say he was a SEAL?


122 posted on 07/30/2022 11:32:16 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: cdcdawg

“. If DeSantis is being put out there as an alternative to Trump,”

He is not an “alternative”.

He is a force of his own. The nation is just starting to realize what a great man he is.


123 posted on 07/30/2022 11:32:54 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Sacajaweau
Oops...found it.

Grandaughter graduating from Brown this year with a PHD in Bio...blah blah blah and a Masters in something supportive. Real hard working braino

What are you trying to say?

The Ivy League:

The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
President Trump graduated from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.   Brown University is first on the list, or is that what you found?
124 posted on 07/30/2022 11:35:27 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"...never knew the greatness of Ronald Reagan."

I interned on the Hill during part of his first term.

Ron the First was definitely the best prez of my lifetime. So far.

125 posted on 07/30/2022 11:35:49 AM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: Drew68; MayflowerMadam

It wasn’t only 2007. Throughout the years, the purges have removed some great thinkers.


126 posted on 07/30/2022 11:44:18 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: Lazamataz

love it.


127 posted on 07/30/2022 11:57:19 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Drew68
You were right about keeping your mouths shut.   A person can be in dissent and still be civil.   The Zotted were rude boors at the top of their lungs.   A couple of times in the almost 25 years I have held my peace.
128 posted on 07/30/2022 11:58:52 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: BuddhaBrown

“””Whether he runs in 2024 or not, Ron is the most qualified prez candidate in our lifetimes.”””

You should learn a little about Reagan, his life was largely preparation for the presidency.


129 posted on 07/30/2022 12:16:05 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy, proud NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon.)
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To: Hojczyk
[1] He is of Italian descent.

2] His family moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating to Dunedin, Florida, when he was six years old.

His family moved to Orlando from ... where? Italy?

Is DeSantis a natural born citien?

130 posted on 07/30/2022 12:20:54 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

cool your jets

DeSantis was born on September 14, 1978, in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Karen (née Rogers) and Ronald Daniel DeSantis.[1] He is of Italian descent, with all of his great-grandparents born in Italy.[2] His maternal great-great-grandfather Salvatore Storti immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1904, eventually settling in Pennsylvania. His great-great-grandmother Luigia Colucci joined her husband in the United States in 1917.[3] DeSantis’s mother was a nurse and his father installed Nielsen TV rating boxes.[4] His family moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating to Dunedin, Florida, when he was six years old.[5] His sister Christina Marie DeSantis was born on May 5, 1985, in Orlando and died in 2015.[6] He was a member of the Little League team from Dunedin National that made it to the 1991 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.[7][8] DeSantis attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School and Dunedin High School,[4] graduating in 1997.


131 posted on 07/30/2022 12:24:21 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: mac_truck
Nothing in the article implied he did..In fact, it was very clear:

assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq with the Troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander,

132 posted on 07/30/2022 12:25:13 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: Drew68

Conservatives were not zotted for backing Giuliani, his supporters were were extremely liberal and anti-conservative, and rabidly anti-social conservative.

It was a war between the left and right here at FR and it was absurd to think that Giuliani could take his NYC Mayor rinoism which was good for NYC, and turn it into winning the presidency as a republican in a national election.


133 posted on 07/30/2022 12:25:21 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy, proud NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon.)
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To: Chickensoup
cool your jets

I don't have to cool a damn' thing. I was asking a legitimate question not knowing DeSantis' full background. And I'm not anti-DeSantis either. We need 49 more governors just like him.

134 posted on 07/30/2022 12:26:03 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Drew68
And, God willing, the next President of the United States.

In '28.

135 posted on 07/30/2022 1:14:17 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hojczyk; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; ...
Thorough and concise list of Ron DeSantis' qualifications. Best governor in the 50 states, at present!

Florida Freeper

I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

136 posted on 07/30/2022 1:40:35 PM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: higgmeister

Didn’t remember that U of Penn was Ivy League.


137 posted on 07/30/2022 1:44:22 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Hot Tabasco
Nothing in the article implied he did..In fact, it was very clear:

Last line of the sotry...

Oh, by the way, this former Navy Lt. and SEAL, is – Ron DeSantis,Governor of Florida.

138 posted on 07/30/2022 1:44:39 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: mac_truck
You obviously skipped #13:

In 2007, he reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq with the Troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.

But you knew that, you're just trying to be a "gotcha" prick..........Nice try

139 posted on 07/30/2022 1:50:40 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: MayflowerMadam

YES!! GOVERNOR HUCKABEES BAND Was OUR ENTERTAINMENT at the FREEPER BALL in 2001 for BUSH!!! It was a BLAST!!! We had lots of fun during the IMPEACHMENT of Bill Clinton in DC also...and MONICA BEACH!!
It’s just not the same. I used to LEARN a ton of things.....and FUNNY AS HELL POSTS!


140 posted on 07/30/2022 1:58:27 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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