Posted on 11/13/2018 10:31:48 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
While a recount continues in his race for governor, Republican Ron DeSantis’ transition team Monday announced staff members who would help set up his administration.
DeSantis last week announced leadership of the transition team, with Susie Wiles serving as executive director. Wiles chaired his gubernatorial campaign.
The staff members announced Monday were James Blair, director of policy; Chris Clark, director of recruiting; Drew Meiner, director of operations; Amanda Emmons, director of scheduling; Ben Gibson, general counsel; Dave Vasquez, press secretary; and Claire Whitehead, assistant to Casey DeSantis, the wife of Ron DeSantis.
Blair is a longtime adviser to House Speaker Richard Corcoran; Clark served as chief of staff to former Senate President Don Gaetz; Meiner is a former deputy campaign manager for operations for the DeSantis campaign; Emmons is a former staff assistant for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio; Gibson is a former deputy general counsel to Gov. Rick Scott; Vasquez is a former campaign manager for state Rep. Bob Cortes; and Whitehead is a former appointments analyst and regional representative for Scott.
A machine recount was ordered Saturday in the race between DeSantis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum because of the closeness of Tuesday’s election. DeSantis led by more than 33,000 votes as of Saturday.
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Nice going, Ron.
Congratulations Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida continuing nearly two decades of Republican governorship.
Good! DeSantis is low-key but not a wuss and is conservative. Scott will be a good Senator - not super conservative or a firebrand, by any means, but pretty reliable.
“Casey DeSantis, the wife of Ron DeSantis”
He owes his win to his wife...she bailed out the most inept run campaign I have seen in Florida. All you had to see to know this is true is the ads they ran at the end ....they all had Casey DeSantis front and center.
No Pam Bondi? Disappointing. Unless trump has something for her.
“the race between DeSantis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum”
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So the demorat gets the title and the nasty little republican gets no title and no first name.
typical lib speak.
He owes his win to his wife..
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I agree. But so what? A win is a win. And this is a legitimate win for Florida and DeSantis.
BTW - the Dems will probably start complaining about this and attacking the Mrs., because that is what the Dems are about.
Isn’t Bondi still the Sec of State? If not- who replaced her???
She will be busy enough on her own to get the ballots & counting under control.
This has been an unholy mess, but at least one thing came out of it:
The American voting public has finally started to see that voter fraud & cheating practices are defintely part of the Democrat landscape.
Maybe now people will agree to cleaning up the voter rolls.
She is done. The new republican won. You are right she’s busy with recount but hopefully over in two days.
You could look it up like I did. Her wiki page says nothing, but Ballotpedia notes she was term limited. This race might be in recount also if not for the independent.
Former circuit court judge Ashley Moody (R) defeated state Rep. Sean Shaw (D) and independent Jeffrey Siskind in the November 6, 2018, general election for Florida’s open attorney general seat. The incumbent attorney general, Pam Bondi (R), was term-limited.
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