DeSantis 104 – Pay to Play, Florida
Govt Officials Asking Tallahassee Lobbyists
to Donate to Ron DeSantis Election Effort
Conservstive Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
5/26/2023 8:19:08 PM
According to Florida lobbyists, they have been contacted by state employees with instructions to send payments to the campaign of Ron DeSantis. The ethical problems within this effort are numerous and could potentially be legally liable for DeSantis government officials participating.
At best, the issue is extreme swamp behavior, where DeSantis officials are pressuring lobbyists in Florida to donate to the DeSantis 2024 election campaign or their advocacy may be disregarded in state budget considerations.
When state employees use their offices to solicit payments to political entities, the legal issues become very murky. Then again, this is swamp behavior – and when you hire the swamp to push your agenda,
You will notice this article quotes an NBC News article, which fails to identify its sources, and we all know how reliable NBC News is.
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I reject any politician who thinks that they can get away with dodgy behavior. DeSantis and the Bush cabal are getting real close to strike three with me. I don't care if this is in the regular media, because once in awhile they actually let real nuggets of honesty slip through. It probably serves their agenda to let truth come out.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman 5/26/2023 8:36:13 PM (No. 1478277)
I wish Staff would consider banning posts from Sundance at Conservative Treehouse. Nobody knows who this guy is or what his true credentials or motivations may be. I have long wondered if he is some kind of government agitator whose job is to trigger conservatives without ever identifying his sources or how he comes by the knowledge he claims to have. I wouldn't take anything he writes as true.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/26/2023 9:02:29 PM (No. 1478298)
#3, how about all of us using our freedom of choice to read what we want to read, and allow others to do the same?
Freedom of choice is beginning to be in pretty short supply for conservatives these days without requesting that longtime conservative sites be banned here of all places.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ruthless 5/26/2023 9:13:56 PM (No. 1478307)
I don't believe this for one nanosecond. Media doing what media do!! They are as trustworthy as Anthony Fauci and the entirety of what passes for government in this communist country.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/26/2023 9:49:46 PM (No. 1478330)
#3, What a disturbing suggestion. If you don’t like his articles, don’t read them. I’ll take the veracity of The Conservative Treehouse over The Daily Mail any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
49 Ford 5/26/2023 10:42:12 PM (No. 1478358)
This is all so tiresome. As # 1 said, NBC "News", all unattributed. Please, give it a rest.
And # 2, how many palms do you suppose Donald Trump had to grease in order to build his many projects?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SezzieBear 5/27/2023 12:42:22 AM (No. 1478399)
President Trump was not an elected official nor Governor of NYC when he was building his projects - straw man argument. As a FL taxpayer and someone who supported RDS over Adam Putnam for Governor (a race RDS was losing handily until he begged DJT to intercede); and again last year, I am more than a little disturbed by his behavior of late. He has travelled around this country and the world meeting with leaders under the guise of a book tour at FL taxpayers expense. He recently had the FL legislature pass a bill in direct conflict with Florida's Government in the Sunshine laws sealing all his travel records so the costs involved in these junkets will never see the light of day. Up until a few weeks ago, FL. required the Governor to resign if he chose to run for higher office and, voila, legislation was introduced to remove that obstacle for him. If he had an ounce of integrity he could have vetoed both bills because the establishment Rs in the FL house would have easily overridden his veto, instead he showed his true colors. If a D Governor had done what he has done - those on this page denouncing Sundance and Conservative Treehouse for pointing out the obvious would be apoplectic over it, and rightly so. If you don't like President Trump, that's your prerogative - but the slick carny maneuvers I have been seeing from the Governor should never be excused or dismissed because he happens to have R after his name.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jayjeti 5/27/2023 1:22:59 AM (No. 1478414)
I noticed there are people who will post crap like this here where the MSM hit parade does its job. i see articles posted here from Microsoft Start, or yahoo news, or other leftwing publications, and the point seems to be to fog conservative minds with doubts and disinformation.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jayjeti 5/27/2023 1:35:25 AM (No. 1478417)
The article states,
"NBC News spoke with 10 Republican lobbyists in Florida, all of whom said they couldn’t remember being solicited for donations so overtly by administration officials — especially at a time when the governor still has to act on the state budget."
What NBC news reporter, and what 10 Republicans told NBC news the same thing about not remembering being solicited so overtly when the state budget had not been settled? What does the state budget have to do with soliciting for campaign contributions? Is that supposed to make sense? DeSantis just announced, there are those hired to seek funding.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/27/2023 3:43:22 AM (No. 1478437)
#3, By your reasoning, maybe all commenters should be banned. After all we don’t know much about each other on this site and what our motivations are. We could…gasp!…be democrat plants! Oh dear, it’s Pearl clutching time! Seriously, articles are posted here from all kinds of sources. You read them evaluate them and then make an opinion on them. Restricting information is not the way to have a conversation because we all differ on what is valuable or complete rubbish. We just have to agree to disagree when something ruffles our feathers. Unless it is a proven a totally unreliable source that is not truthful, bring it on and we can decide. Banning something we don’t not like, is not consistent with the First Amendment.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/27/2023 7:14:07 AM (No. 1478491)
Wait..... we are disturbed by DeSantis behavior, but Trump gets a pass? Trump is out there daily making demonstrably false claims about DeSantis, but DeSantis is to blame? Trump makes at least one idiotic statement every week. But we can count on his slavish boot licking it's Trump or we burn down the country supporters to excuse his behavior or deflect at every opportunity.
Explain how they are any different than the Obama syncophants.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
happywarrior 5/27/2023 8:50:43 AM (No. 1478561)
#9, our minds here at Lucianne are not affected by the fog. Conservative Treehouse has been welcome here for many, many years. It is certainly not a mainstream media site. You must be new.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
paral04 5/27/2023 8:52:39 AM (No. 1478563)
Maybe that is a way to get rid of lobbyists.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
49 Ford 5/27/2023 9:56:05 AM (No. 1478614)
# 8, no straw man argument here if the issue is character, integrity and "true colors". And although Trump's endorsement was key in securing the 2018 nomination for RDS, that doesn't mean that the latter owes the former any form of special undying loyalty.
You can find "disturbing" behavior in anyone's actions if you look for it hard enough. As one who has voted twice for both men I am not inclined to participate in a (Democrat pleasing) mission of destruction against either. Unfortunately, the myopic and conspiracy-minded Sundance is not so constrained.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jimincalif 5/27/2023 9:59:54 AM (No. 1478617)
Sundance makes a lot of interesting observations. But he seems to have DeSantis Derangement Syndrome. He’s perpetually offended because RDS is playing hardball to win. It isn’t always pretty, but without winning, nothing else matters in the presidential contest.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/27/2023 11:01:55 AM (No. 1478672)
Are the operatives posting on this site so foolish as to think we don’t know who they are?
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Sundance makes some good points here. It's been apparent since Bush 43 that the RNC and DNC are to the political-industrial complex what Coke and Pepsi are to the soft drink industry - the money belongs to them and no ousiders are allowed. But after witnessing what today's democrat party can do to the country when in control of the Executive Branch, we need to win the White House in 2024. Period. So do we stand on our principles, show up on Election Day, and go for broke with Trump (whom the electoral machine may be able to keep from ever winning again) or hop in bed with the statists and hope to get a watered-down GOPe candidate elected to at least stop some of the madness? I don't think I can answer that right now but we're still 18 months out, and a lot is going to happen in the interim. I've checked my chin strap and shall remain vigilant.
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