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Nevilledog

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Sun Sep 18, 2022, 08:00 PM Sep 2022

Records confirm Ron DeSantis' "political stunt" flights landed in Florida Panhandle



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The charter flights Ron DeSantis used to smuggle 50 immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard just raised a $61,000 question.

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Records confirm Ron DeSantis’ "political stunt" flights landed in Florida Panhandle
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9:57 AM · Sep 17, 2022


https://grantstern.substack.com/p/records-confirm-ron-desantis-political

Exclusively obtained public records help to explain why two charter flights hired by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis landed in a public airport in northwest Florida as part of his deceptive, potentially illegal political stunt targeting 50 Venezuelan immigrants.

Significantly, the newly released documents from Okaloosa County incontrovertibly places the two chartered aircrafts inside Florida after arriving from Texas.

It also confirms the state’s use of the two charter planes having tail numbers N359SK and N411FJ to transport 50 Venezuelan immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

That’s an important point for those who believe Governor DeSantis overstepped his authority under the state’s 2022 budget which contains a line authorizing transportation from the state but not into the state.

“With the aid of Florida’s sunshine law we were able to quickly verify certain facts because the airport Ron DeSantis decided to use as part of this scheme was a county airport,” says attorney Daniel Uhlfelder, who helped expedite the records request. “Even the Governor isn’t able to escape disclosure and cover up his misdeeds.“

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Records confirm Ron DeSantis' "political stunt" flights landed in Florida Panhandle (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2022 OP
Sunshine laws implemented by Democrats decades ago MaryMagdaline Sep 2022 #1
Shhhh...don't give the asshole any ideas Lochloosa Sep 2022 #3
You're so right. Mum's the word. MaryMagdaline Sep 2022 #4
GD De Stupid & his & his Crimes! Cha Sep 2022 #2
Who knows? Maybe this is so shocking and over-the-top an indictment will come in five years. Silent3 Sep 2022 #5
So what. progressoid Sep 2022 #6
When you are ignorant & hateful and lazy and racist like desantis and abbott BOSSHOG Sep 2022 #7

MaryMagdaline

(6,853 posts)
1. Sunshine laws implemented by Democrats decades ago
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 08:06 PM
Sep 2022

We would never be able to pass Sunshine laws in today’s RW climate.

Silent3

(15,200 posts)
5. Who knows? Maybe this is so shocking and over-the-top an indictment will come in five years.
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 09:41 PM
Sep 2022

These guys act like they're above the law because they are.

progressoid

(49,978 posts)
6. So what.
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 10:12 PM
Sep 2022

This isn't going to take him down or even wound him. These people (trump, desantis, abbott etc.) are brazenly operating outside of the legal norms and they know they can get away with it.

BOSSHOG

(37,043 posts)
7. When you are ignorant & hateful and lazy and racist like desantis and abbott
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 10:15 PM
Sep 2022

You expend a great deal of energy doing the wrong thing and creating the wrong outcome. I suggest Ron and Greg write a check to Steve bannons build the wall patriotic foundation or use tax money to help fund trumps save America pact because important people, like Ron Johnson, know that’s what real patriots would do. Writing about garbage results in digression.

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