Charlie Crist first changed the "resign to run law" when he thought he'd be McCain's V.P. choice. When it turned out he wasn't, he never changed the law back. Rick Scott did that. Then DeSantis came along and manipulated the law again. The day he announced his candidacy, he signed the change to the "resign to run law." I didn't care whether it was a Republican, or Democrat. No Governor should use his party's majority to benefit himself politically and monetarily, which DeSantis did by continuing to get a taxpayer-funded salary while taking a year off to galavant around the country campaigning for a higher office. I always figured he knew he didn't have a chance of beating Trump, as the reason for him having the law changed. Again, he was helping himself to the benefit of having a job to go back to when he eventually crashed and burned.
Yes, it was a sneaky thing he did. He’s done some decent things as governor (and a few bad ones), but his character is the real issue. DeSantis is severely deficient in that regard.
We actually had a "near" case of this in Massachusetts in 2004 when Mitt Romney was the governor and the Democrat legislature thought that John Kerry would win the Presidential election.
The legislature changed the state law that let a governor appoint a vacancy in the Senate to take that power away from Romney and force him to call a special election to fill the vacancy.
Kerry eventually lost the election and remained in the Senate, so the move was eventually mooted by events, though the law is still on the books and the Massachusetts can no longer appoint Senators to fill vacancies.
Republicans may have hemmed and hawed but didn't raise a big stink about it. They just figured "it's Massachusetts and we don't stand a chance there," until Scott Brown won the special election in 2010 when Ted Kennedy died.
Of course, Elizabeth Warren beat Brown in the 2012 general election for the seat, so maybe they were right after all.
-PJ