Posted on 02/26/2023 4:01:00 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Fox News is running an hour-long campaign infomercial to support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis winning the 2024 GOP primary nomination. Inside the political messaging, Jeb Bush gives his full-throated endorsement. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
Based on current available evidence, the announcement of a 2024 presidential bid is a mere formality, likely to surface later in 2023, as all the background datapoints reflect the strategic and financial team behind Ron DeSantis have been positioning an announcement since late 2021. One visible datapoint has been his campaign office, specifically his then spokesperson Christina Pushaw, reaching out to a group of Florida influencers and organizing a meeting on January 6, 2022.
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By the late spring of 2022 the branding and management of the pending Ron DeSantis presidential bid was strongly underway, and by early August 2022, not coincidentally timed with the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, after an unusual five days in a bunker, a new national campaign team was announced and launched. Everything from that national image launch has been carefully managed, organized and constructed.
With the Florida legislature set to change the law permitting DeSantis to run and remain as governor; and with the intentionally elevated profile and controlled national branding in place; the office of the Florida governor has transformed from a state executive focus to a launch vehicle for higher office. State policies and office advocacy now run through the priority prism of national politics, as the announcement of the DeSantis book launch is simultaneously positioned.
All of the datapoints flow in one direction, Desantis seeking the 2024 GOP nomination. None of the carefully managed policy points are contradictory to a national intention. However, the original question about who is controlling Ron DeSantis remains unanswered. It is with this specific outlook in mind that we can now find Governor Ron DeSantis’s perspective on donor money influencing politics by looking at how he answered this exact question in March 2014.
In March 2014 a young man asked exactly this question. During a Q&A session at Embry-Riddle University, then U.S.Congressman Ron DeSantis, representing Florida’s 6th District, was asked about money influencing politics. Within his answer we can gain an understanding of why 94% of Ron DeSantis donations are coming from the billionaire influence class.
Video prompted to 00:49:11 of the session, where Ron DeSantis says he feels limited campaign contributions are a problem. Congressman DeSantis says that billionaires should be permitted to fully fund political candidates, without limits, as long as the donations are fully transparent.
Beyond the view of billionaires being permitted to fund candidates for office, pay particular attention to the example that DeSantis uses regarding online sales taxes and his opposition to it. Within that specific answer you are about to see a major contradiction, that tells us something significant. WATCH:
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The K-Street lobbyists and campaign donors DeSantis is describing in the online tax example, are the Club for Growth types who wanted states to deliver national equality on the issue of state collection of online sales taxes.
Apparently, in 2014 Congressman DeSantis was willing to take the C4G donor money and yet not support the online sales tax that would hurt Florida consumers.
However, very quietly in April of 2021, Florida Governor DeSantis signed a law requiring all online businesses outside Florida to charge Florida sales taxes on products ordered by Florida residents. The online tax for Florida residents was projected to net an additional $1 billion in revenue for the state.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis very quietly and without much fanfare signed a new online sales tax bill into law Monday, requiring out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales taxes.
[…] Under the law, “marketplace providers” that aren’t located in Florida will be required to remit sales taxes “when delivering tangible personal property” to consumers. (read more)
As you can see from the bigger picture issue of billionaires purchasing politicians, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis felt massive wealthy interests should be permitted to fund politicians. This is in line with his 2022 position of massive donations from billionaires, hedge fund managers, multinational corporations and Wall Street flowing into his campaign and Political Action Committee coffers.
Simultaneous with this 2022 increase in billionaire funding, DeSantis reversed his 2014 position on online sales tax collection for Florida residents, putting himself in direct alignment with Club 4 Growth and other K-Street lobbying groups he said would not influence his policy. DeSantis received $2,000,000.00 from Club 4 Growth.
Add in the endorsement of Paul Ryan (link), and Jeb Bush (link), and Wall Street republicanism reemerges as the DeSantis platform.
Jeb Bush gave more than a full endorsement, no he went over and beyond by giving a full “THROATED” endorsement. Can’t do more than that. A throated endorsement means everything. Trump is sure to lose now. /sarc
True colors. Of course anyone paying attention knows they are rinos which are even worse than dems.
Yep. Nope.
Having Heb endorse you is like having David Duke endorse you.
I can’t help but wonder if DeSantis even wants these kisses of death.
Straight out of Hollywood Central Casting. What a complete phony. He stabbed Trump in the back, he’ll stab us in the back.
Whether or not he wants them is irrelevant because he’s beholden to them.
Please, Trump fans, don’t hold that against DeSantis. He and Trump should not be enemies.
What does Jeb have to offer to anyone to make anyone beholden to him? It’s not like he has much clout anywhere or like many people will be swayed by his decisions. Even his donors will support or not support DeSantis without regard to what Jeb says.
It’s not an infomercial. It’s an expensive production that FOX News is putting together because Ron is their bought and paid for Manchurian Candidate. Fox has another hour long special with Ron’s wife and kids by that arrogant idiot Brian Kilmeade. It’s free political advertising approved by Paul Ryan — the guy who was on tv recently saying he would go to the RNC convention if Trump is the candidate. No bothered to ask him why. Regardless, this is the guy who gave us Mitt Romney, who quit as SOTH when Trump was President and convinced other idiots like Rooster Hair Trey Gowdy to quit thereby giving the House to the Dems so they could impeach Trump. Ryan ignored the evidence of wrong doing by the Dems that Devin Nunes and Kash Patel had, let Nunes be investigated on a bogus ethics charge and on and on. Ryan is a nobody. A quitter who hates Trump and is using Fox news and it’s gullible viewers to push his global agenda with RDS.
...saying he would not go to the RNC convention.....
Exactly. Or as I call it, Business As Usual.
Now that’s funny right there!
Spot on, Viv!
Fox News and the RINOs are the reason I’m now a Libertarian.
Oh, come on. They have made it very clear they aren’t endorsing Trump for one. Ron is the chosen one for the Deep State and FOX News. Ron’s a total phony.
He’s a bought and paid for Derp State phony. He’s only “Governing” like a “Conservative” to suck in people like you. Can’t wait until it is clear that hes doing what he’s told to do. Carefully crafted policy while Gov. That will not be how he governs as Pres. if he should win. Who endorses does matter because they own him
DeSantis is not Buttigieg and he's not going to fail, but we thought the same thing about George Allen in Virginia before the LAAP-dog media concocted the "macaca" smear.
Jeb Bush thought he had it locked in until President Trump decided to run and Bush became small in comparison, despite his stature.
It's too far out to start declaring endorsements.
-PJ
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