Ron DeSantis hit with an ethics complaint from Trump super PAC

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The primary pro-Trump super PAC is filing a complaint with the Florida Ethics Commission over what it says is the governor's "shadow presidential campaign."

Make America Great Again Inc. is filing a 15-page complaint Wednesday with the Florida Commission on Ethics, a draft of which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.

It asks the commission to probe whether pro-DeSantis super PACs, his "personally lucrative book tour" and a continued wave of state-level campaign contributions, among other things, "are unlawful because they serve his personal political objectives, are in furtherance of his personal financial gain at the expense of Florida taxpayers, and are intended to influence his official decision to resign from office."

Trump’s allies face a tall order in getting the commission to investigate DeSantis, considering he appointed five of the nine members.

Trump’s team bases its complaint, in part, on Florida’s resign-to-run law, which requires politicians running for a new office to resign if the terms of the two offices will overlap. DeSantis was re-elected last year to another four-year term by a near-20-point margin.

Florida legislators have changed the law in the past, most notably when former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist was on the short list to be John McCain’s presidential running mate in 2008. The law was changed back in 2018, but Republican legislative leaders have openly discussed changing it again during the current legislative session for a potential DeSantis presidential bid.

 

[DaisyDay]

DeSantis claims that it is a politically motivated attack. Well, duh.

A Pro-Trump Group Files an Ethics Complaint Against DeSantis

The super PAC said that Mr. DeSantis should be considered a presidential candidate because he has taken meetings with donors, raised money for a political committee and toured the country to sell books, while allies are reaching out to potential campaign aides.

Does anyone think he is not running for president?

 

[seeking.IAM]

The irony is great in this one....those associated with Trump filing a complaint about ethics.

 

[rjs330]

And the political circus begins. Kind of funny though since Desantis has not declared that he is running for president yet.

 

[seeking.IAM]

And the political circus begins. Kind of funny though since Desantis has not declared that he is running for president yet.

When was the ending of the political circus? I think I missed it. Someone needs to tell me about these things.

 

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Kind of funny though since Desantis has not declared that he is running for president yet.

That’s the basis of the complaint.

 

[rjs330]

That’s the basis of the complaint.

Even more silly. I read this in the OP as part of the complaint.

Trump’s team bases its complaint, in part, on Florida’s resign-to-run law, which requires politicians running for a new office to resign if the terms of the two offices will overlap. DeSantis was re-elected last year to another four-year term by a near-20-point margin.

Since he's not running yet this is kind of dumb. I'm pretty sure he will run, but he certainly hasn't violated anything in Florida in regards to this since he has not declared.

Just more Trump goofiness imo. I just really am hoping he does not get the nomination. He's just too controversial for my taste. Desantis is controversial too, but Trump is on a way different level.

Count me out on Trump for now. If he is the candidate I'll vote for him because I think he'd be better than any democrat that I know of.

If I got a democrat who was fairly conservative I'd vote for him over Trump. But being anyone Democrat right now who might be in the list is way too far left for me.

 

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Republican legislative leaders have openly discussed changing it again during the current legislative session for a potential DeSantis presidential bid.

Florida GOP set to remove hurdle to DeSantis White House bid​

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans are poised to change state law to allow GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without having to leave office, according to legislation filed Tuesday.

 

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If I got a democrat who was fairly conservative I'd vote for him over Trump. But being anyone Democrat right now who might be in the list is way too far left for me.

I am building a time machine so who should I get?
LBJ, JFK or "hey hey hey how do you do ladies Clinton" ,
PS I am very clever and my time machine breaks the fabric of time AND term limits

 

[Diamond72]

The irony is great in this one....those associated with Trump filing a complaint about ethics.

I was kinda wondering the same thing. Is Trump opening up a can of worms by giving people a new way to cause him problems in every state by filing charges against him over nothing issues? People could file multiple charges in every review board in every state that ever existed.

 

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Florida GOP set to remove hurdle to DeSantis White House bid​

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans are poised to change state law to allow GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without having to leave office, according to legislation filed Tuesday.

Florida poised to make DeSantis’ travel records secret​

Open government advocates called it one of the worst ever proposed exemptions to the state’s much-lauded Sunshine Law.

 

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Florida poised to make DeSantis’ travel records secret​

Open government advocates called it one of the worst ever proposed exemptions to the state’s much-lauded Sunshine Law.

DeSantis staffers blocked release of travel records, whistleblower says​

The Washington Post is suing to obtain the Florida governor’s records and arguing that a new law limiting disclosure is unconstitutional​

When top aides to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met with state law enforcement agency officials about two months ago to discuss a lawsuit seeking the release of the governor’s flight records, the conversation quickly turned heated.

Two Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials argued that some records should be released, but DeSantis’s aides overruled them, citing a new state law that restricts access to his travel records, according to an FDLE staffer briefed on the meeting.

In the weeks after the tense meeting, DeSantis staffers blocked a promotion for an FDLE attorney who favored turning over the records. Carpenter, the agency’s deputy, filed a whistleblower complaint, and she and FDLE chief of staff Shane Desguin were pushed out of the agency, according to Carpenter’s email.

The shake-up is the latest example of what many former FDLE staffers have portrayed as potentially dangerous overreach by the governor’s office.

DeSantis’s spokesman Jeremy Redfern disputed Carpenter’s account, the News Service of Florida reported last week.
“The governor’s office has received multiple complaints of this employee creating a hostile work environment,” he said.

 

[Pommer]

DeSantis staffers blocked release of travel records, whistleblower says​

The Washington Post is suing to obtain the Florida governor’s records and arguing that a new law limiting disclosure is unconstitutional​

When top aides to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met with state law enforcement agency officials about two months ago to discuss a lawsuit seeking the release of the governor’s flight records, the conversation quickly turned heated.

Two Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials argued that some records should be released, but DeSantis’s aides overruled them, citing a new state law that restricts access to his travel records, according to an FDLE staffer briefed on the meeting.

In the weeks after the tense meeting, DeSantis staffers blocked a promotion for an FDLE attorney who favored turning over the records. Carpenter, the agency’s deputy, filed a whistleblower complaint, and she and FDLE chief of staff Shane Desguin were pushed out of the agency, according to Carpenter’s email.

The shake-up is the latest example of what many former FDLE staffers have portrayed as potentially dangerous overreach by the governor’s office.

DeSantis’s spokesman Jeremy Redfern disputed Carpenter’s account, the News Service of Florida reported last week.
“The governor’s office has received multiple complaints of this employee creating a hostile work environment,” he said.

Wow, a super-petty Chief Executive, whoda thunk it?

 

[rjs330]

Well if course Trump super pac filed a complaint. It should come as no surprise when we know who Trump is and what he likes to do to his opponents. I wonder if they think Desantis is some sort of a threat to Trump.

Apparently there is a law regarding this. So complaining about people who are abusing by the law seem kind of ridiculous.

 

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DeSantis staffers blocked release of travel records, whistleblower says​

The Washington Post is suing to obtain the Florida governor’s records and arguing that a new law limiting disclosure is unconstitutional​

In the weeks after the tense meeting, DeSantis staffers blocked a promotion for an FDLE attorney who favored turning over the records. Carpenter, the agency’s deputy, filed a whistleblower complaint, and she and FDLE chief of staff Shane Desguin were pushed out of the agency, according to Carpenter’s email.

Former Florida police official says he was forced out for refusing governor’s ‘unlawful’ orders​

A former top Florida law enforcement official is claiming he was pressured several times by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his deputies to carry out “unlawful” activity, including collecting information about migrants and arresting neo-Nazi demonstrators without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.

The allegations are outlined in a 16-page lawsuit filed this week by Shane Desguin, the former chief of staff for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, in which he accuses the state agency and DeSantis of wrongful termination and retaliation for questioning several “unlawful directives” — many of them tied to the governor’s political priorities.

According to the complaint, the aide told Desguin that the governor — who was running for president at the time — wanted state police to arrest neo-Nazi demonstrators in Orlando under a state law that prohibits people from projecting images on property without permission.

Desguin argued that state police couldn’t arrest someone engaging in an activity protected by the First Amendment just because DeSantis “desired it,” according to the complaint.

“I don’t think you understand,” the aide — Alex Kelly, at the time DeSantis’ chief of staff — told Desguin, according to the complaint. “If you look hard enough, you can find a way. The Governor [DeSantis] wants someone arrested today. He will stand by you in any arrest.”

His lawsuit was filed under Florida’s Whistleblower Act. Desguin’s then-deputy chief of staff, Patricia Carpenter, was also allegedly forced out when she sought whistleblower status for raising the same concerns about the public records. [story quoted above]