Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis travels - a lot. So who is picking up the tab for his private plane trips?
is expected to announce his much-anticipated bid for the White House, he is in the crosshairs, yet again, for his lavish and secretive use of privately funded travel which has taken him around the country. Newshows just how much DeSantis, who last year reported a net worth of $319,000, relies on his rich buddies to get around.counted roughly 55 “wealthy, mostly Florida-based contributors and companies'' who have financed DeSantis’s private air travel.
Many are based in Florida and have long been associated with DeSantis; a few have business interests before the state. Thespoke to a half dozen lobbyists and donors who said they “became accustomed to calls from the governor’s political aides asking for planes.” “Voters deserve this information because they have a right to know who is trying to influence their elected officials and whether their leaders are prioritizing public good over the interests of their big-money benefactors,” Trevor Potter, the president of Campaign Legal Center and a Republican who once led the Federal Election Commission, told theSome of DeSantis’s travel has been arranged by a Michigan-based nonprofit founded in January that has ferried DeSantis around the country for...
Last week, DeSantis moved to obscure the sources of his jet-setting even further, signing a bill that would give him and other state leaders a public records exemption for past and future travel records. DeSantisOn Saturday, the puckish college student who made headlines in December after Twitter banned his account, which tracked
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