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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUgly new details about Ron DeSantis's stunt reveal a deeper scam
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Just vile: DeSantis won't release the contract for his migrant flights. Because it will likely show Florida contracted to spend taxpayer money flying migrants from other states, a violation. That may get a court to halt the flights, legal experts tell me.
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Opinion | Ugly new details about Ron DeSantiss stunt reveal a deeper scam
DeSantis's "own the libs" scheme actually owns right wing audiences and Florida taxpayers.
9:59 AM · Sep 23, 2022
Greg Sargent
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Just vile: DeSantis won't release the contract for his migrant flights. Because it will likely show Florida contracted to spend taxpayer money flying migrants from other states, a violation. That may get a court to halt the flights, legal experts tell me.
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Ugly new details about Ron DeSantiss stunt reveal a deeper scam
DeSantis's "own the libs" scheme actually owns right wing audiences and Florida taxpayers.
9:59 AM · Sep 23, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/23/ron-desantis-migrants-marthas-vineyard-florida/
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Who paid for the migrants to be transported from Texas to Florida?
That question emerges from new revelations about Gov. Ron DeSantiss vile stunt, in which he transported two planeloads of migrants from Texas to Florida and on to Marthas Vineyard in Massachusetts.
The Florida Republican refuses to release the state contract that funded the flights. That suggests DeSantis is seeking to bury critical facts even as reporters fill in details about the flights and their questionable legality.
This potentially points to a deeper scam. DeSantis whose presidential ambitions emit a stench akin to Limburger rotting in an old sock is gushing with own-the-libs bluster, vowing to keep on shoving migrants in the faces of elite liberals everywhere. But the ones truly getting owned by this farce are right-wing voters and Florida taxpayers. The more information that comes out, the clearer this will become.
In a useful piece NBC News Marc Caputo reports that the outfit contracted to ship migrants Vertol Systems Company Inc. has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to super PACs backing Florida GOP candidates. One funded Matt Gaetz, a right-wing media troll who moonlights as a congressman.
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Ugly new details about Ron DeSantis's stunt reveal a deeper scam (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2022
OP
Jesus is suing DeSatan. Every MAGAt should get down on their knees and pray for Crist.
Hermit-The-Prog
Sep 2022
#6
Bayard
(21,991 posts)1. "a stench akin to Limburger rotting in an old sock "
I'll have to remember that one.
Are there any decent, honest rethuglican politicians? Do we think this is going to bring DeSatan down?
mercuryblues
(14,520 posts)4. At 1st I read that as...
a stench akin to Limbaugh rotting in an old sock.
Don't know which would be worse!
Cha
(296,726 posts)2. Florida has a Vile Criminal for a Gov.. Get
the Hell Rid of him, Floridians!
Trying to outdo DT, will ya! Fascist POS
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,232 posts)6. Jesus is suing DeSatan. Every MAGAt should get down on their knees and pray for Crist.
Cha
(296,726 posts)7. Oh Best of Good Luck to
Them 🍀🍀🍀🕊🕯😇😇
What a rats nest maze deSatan made for him and his fascist posse
Skittles
(153,104 posts)3. ...
"Matt Gaetz, a right-wing media troll who moonlights as a congressman."