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Ron DeSantis

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Ron DeSantis is an American politician currently serving as the Governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he has been in office since January 2019. DeSantis previously served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018. His tenure as governor has been marked by a focus on conservative policies, including education reform, environmental issues, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. DeSantis has gained national attention for his stances on various issues, including his support for the Trump Presidential Library in Miami and his administration's initiatives on wildlife management.

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Jan 18, 2023

The content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.

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Dec 17, 2022

My message is, the vaccines protect you. Get vaccinated.

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Nov 15, 2022

People just need to chill out a little bit on some of this stuff. I mean, seriously, we just ran an election.

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Nov 12, 2022

We will never ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die!

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Nov 5, 2022

I think Republicans are going to win the House and the Senate. I think they are going to do both.

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Nov 5, 2022

America needs strong leadership and desperately, that's why I am endorsing Joe O'Dea for U.S. Senate.

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Oct 23, 2022

I know that Charlie's interested in talking about 2024 and Joe Biden but I just want to make things very, very clear the only worn-out old donkey I'm looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.

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Oct 6, 2022

So, first of all, our program that we did is a voluntary relocation program.

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Oct 6, 2022

Unfortunately, there's a lot of folks that come across. Where do they want to end up? A lot want to come to -- because, everyone wants to come to Florida. And so, we've worked, on innovative ways, to be able to protect, the State of…

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Oct 3, 2022

His political stunt has sparked a criminal investigation in Bexar County, Texas led by the sheriff there and it leads to lawsuits.

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Oct 3, 2022

It’s been nearly three weeks since Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida flew almost 50 unsuspecting Venezuelan migrants including children from Texas to Florida, and then drop them off in an island off the coast of Massachusetts.

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Oct 3, 2022

The State will review everything about this storm and that should include the timing of the Lee County evacuations.

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Oct 2, 2022

It’s also a state that is in many ways run by developers, right? I mean, they’re allowed to build whatever they want wherever they want.

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Oct 2, 2022

Because part of the whole real -- the gestalt of DeSantis and Florida Republicans who have run the state for a couple decades is that this is the free state of Florida. Don’t tread on us. Don’t -- you can’t tell us what to do.

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Oct 2, 2022

Sometimes, the cost of not planning for the future and not investing in the future, you can see it when the -- when the water starts to rise.

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Oct 2, 2022

They informed people and most people did not want to do it. I mean, that's just -- that's just the reality.

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Oct 2, 2022

They actually give him a packet and, in that packet, included a map of Martha`s Vineyard. So, it was obvious that that`s where they were going. It`s all voluntary. I mean, these are voluntary transportation that they`re signing up for. The…

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Oct 2, 2022

But, eventually, Mother Nature bats last.

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Sep 30, 2022

this storm hit an area that would be more like a 500-year flood zone.

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Sep 30, 2022

He didn’t want to bail out in New York and New Jersey after Sandy, but that’s really kind of normal.

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Sep 30, 2022

Ron DeSantis has spent years railing against the federal government as not -- it’s not a force for good.

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Sep 29, 2022

We`re committed to restoring the infrastructure is needed. That is not going to be an overnight task. That is going to be something that is going to require a lot of -- a lot of love and care. It`s going to require a lot of resources. But…

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