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Oh, that Florida legislature just keeps spoiling Ronnie De rotten ... [1]

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Date: 2023-07-28

Orlando Sentinel:

The governor’s campaign motorcade was on their way to a fundraiser in Chattanooga when an accident up ahead caused traffic to slow down. A Tennessee Highway Patrol officer leading the motorcade stopped short, Chattanooga police reported, causing the vehicles behind it to rear-end each other.

A female staffer was treated on the scene for minor injuries but, thankfully, he was uninjured.

The DeSantis campaign did not respond to a request for more information ... “We’ve never answered questions about our protective operations assets (number of agents used, vehicles etc.),” FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said ... All the vehicles involved were government vehicles, the police report said.

.. protective operations assets ... ooh, sounds like we should know better than to even ask.

Oh, no!

If it hadn’t been for a fender bender on Interstate 75 near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tuesday morning, most folks wouldn’t know that Gov. Ron DeSantis was using state government vehicles for his 2024 run for president. Tuesday’s four-vehicle collision on the way to a campaign fundraiser draws a curtain back on the campaign’s use of state resources. But finding out who’s paying for it is nearly impossible thanks to a new law passed by the Legislature to protect the governor’s travel records from public view. “The legislature has enabled him to hide his travel records so we don’t know and have no way to hold him accountable if he is using state resources in his campaign or if that is even the case,” said Ben Wilcox, research director for Integrity Florida, a nonprofit government watchdog. It was frustrating enough when trying to monitor his use of government resources while traveling around the state, Rep. Anna Eskamani said, but to take those people and vehicles out of state is even worse. “It’s absurd that he’s using public resources and public infrastructure to campaign.” said Eskamani, D-Orlando. “He’s using state resources to boost himself politically.”

Hey, didn't they also enact legislation allowing a sitting governor to run for president?

And did they let him keep those bitchin' white boots?

Here's the full article featuring additional malfeasance outside of the purview of this rant.

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