Billionaire kingmakers swarm Florida governor's race after Trump endorsement

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




Not long after an admiring presidential tweet, Congressman Ron DeSantis won the backing of some of the most influential players in GOP politics.

By MARC CAPUTO and ALEXANDRA GLORIOSO 12/29/2017 05:12 AM EST

After Donald Trump appeared to endorse Ron DeSantis’ campaign for Florida governor last week, a handful of the biggest and most influential billionaires in Republican politics threw their support behind the three-term GOP congressman, upending the race in the nation’s biggest swing state.

The stable of billionaires and millionaires listed on DeSantis’ “Finance Leadership Team,” obtained by POLITICO, include casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, hedge fund heiress Rebekah Mercer, investment tycoon Foster Friess and other donors who have funded the conservative Koch brothers’ network and President Trump’s campaign. Just last week, Trump weighed in on Twitter to say that DeSantis “would make a GREAT Governor of Florida.”

DeSantis has yet to formally announce his 2018 campaign for governor, but his intentions to seek the office became clear in May after he established a state political committee, called the Fund for Florida’s Future, that’s allowed to raise and spend unlimited soft money from corporate contributors.

“This sets DeSantis apart from the rest. He will have the financial resources and the ground game and the Trump base to be an incredible statewide candidate,” said David Bossie, a DeSantis backer, who founded the Citizens United conservative group, served as Trump’s deputy campaign manager and just co-authored the new “Let Trump Be Trump” book plugged by the president.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/29/florida-governors-race-billionaire-donors-gop-ron-desantis-319622

[notdarkyet]

1. With half a million new pissed off PR residents taking up residence in Florida because

their plight has been ignored and pushed aside, good luck getting a repub anything elected in FL.. Go ahead and let the billionaires throw their money away, because, the poor are going to bring you down.

[not fooled]

2. That sounds wonderful

Please please please let the Puerto Ricans--and all the other non-dumbass voters in FL--exact revenge on dump and his stable of Batman villain billionaires.

bekah = Poison Ivy (without the beauty or skillset). Cruella de Vil works, too.

adelson = the Penguin

friess = Mr. Freeze

[packman]

3. Like to agree with you-BUT

Except for the Miami area , Florida will be Red for years to come. Twice, I thought Scott would be defeated but the roots of Republicanism runs deep in this corrupt state controlled by special interests who are lying in bed with the politicians. I live in the Panhandle of the state and it is so conservative that even getting a Dem to run on ANY ticket is a near miracle.

[mdbl]

4. FloriDUH

maybe they'll wise up someday but I'm not holding my breath.