A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis kept his comments brief when asked about Florida resident Donald Trump’s silence as Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday.
“Not my concern. My concern is protecting the people of Florida, being ready to go and we have done that,” DeSantis said.
On Truth Social Tuesday night, the former President celebrated the latest round of 2024 polls, commented on his legal travails, posted a “thank you” to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and blasted President Joe Biden.
He did not, however, offer words of reassurance for those in the path of the storm in a state that supported him twice for President and where the latest polling shows him leading DeSantis by a wide margin in the 2024 GOP Primary.
Trump has spent a lot of time in recent months ripping DeSantis’ handling of the insurance market.
In March, he said DeSantis “crushed Florida homeowners whose houses were destroyed in the hurricane (Ian in 2022). They have been absolutely decimated. They’re getting pennies on the dollar.”
“While Florida’s lives are ruined, the hurricane was a disaster. The hurricane was actually handled very poorly and the insurance companies are being made whole. The people of Florida aren’t,” Trump said in March, decrying the “total sellout to the insurance companies” and saying Florida had “worst insurance scam in the entire country with the highest rates in the entire country.”
Regarding insurance companies being “made whole,” Trump presumably refers to two recent Special Session bills.
SB 2A, passed in December, provided $1 billion from the state’s general revenue fund to bolster the reinsurance market, in an attempt to stop last year’s attrition of available providers. This followed up on a $2 billion allocation from a different Special Session in May for essentially the same purpose.
While eight insurance companies left Florida in the last year, some new companies have entered the market in recent months, such as Orion180 Select Insurance Company, Orion180 Insurance Company, Mainsail Insurance Company and Tailrow Insurance Company.
13 comments
My Take
August 30, 2023 at 9:37 am
When does DeSScamus get asked his position on the ~1000 page blueprint for GOP fascism just reveàled from the far right Heritage Foundation ?
Rick Whitaker
September 2, 2023 at 11:55 pm
i’m glad they released it instead of secretly like they have done before. i’ll have to read it. i like to be posted on what my sworn enemies are up to
My Take
August 30, 2023 at 10:23 am
PS I am a far left fool.
Impeach Biden
August 30, 2023 at 10:28 am
Those lefty policies are working wonders out on the left coast. How about those so called sanctuary cities? Read about the Mayor of the Sanctuary City and the Governor of NY. Hilarious.
TJC
August 30, 2023 at 12:54 pm
Left policies do seem to work wonders in California, glad you asked:
States With the Highest GDP
1. California ($3.558 trillion) …
2.Texas ($2.354 trillion) …
3. New York ($2.034 trillion) …
4. Florida ($1.371 trillion) …
Ah, but what about per capita GDP?
1. New York
2. Massachusetts
3. Washington
4. California
You can claim “Blue” states are losers, but in fact they are the powerhouses of the USA economy. And yes, they have Sanctuary Cities. Now, cry me a river.
Impeach Biden
September 1, 2023 at 6:50 am
For the first time in Kalifornia’s history they have lost a Congressional seat. The fact is that Kalifornia was once a great state but now both people and businesses are leaving. High taxes, high crime, etc. Been to San Francisco, Los Angeles, or San Diego lately?
Rick Whitaker
September 3, 2023 at 12:06 am
impeach biden, you got punked didn’t you? ha ha red states are maga maggot states. is that what you are so proud of. what a loser!
Rick Whitaker
September 3, 2023 at 12:02 am
so is florida on the left coast with new york? i would live in any state except desantistan. i assume you live there, i sure don’t
My Take
August 30, 2023 at 12:13 pm
Nò, you are an impersonating dreg.
But today’s GOP attracts only dregs.
DregSSantis.
Rick Whitaker
September 2, 2023 at 11:57 pm
i doubt you are as left as i am, but that’s a subjective word anyway. i’m also left-handed
My Take
August 30, 2023 at 2:43 pm
Biden 2024
My Take
August 30, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Fun readingTrumpy tear into DeSScamus’s insurance failures or intentional cheating of Floridians.
Very fun watching several black lady legal officials tearing down Trumpy. He mus seethe.
And Trumpy seems abandoned by his family!
But who could blame them?
Rick Whitaker
September 3, 2023 at 12:10 am
i hope they all get hard time in prison. can you imagine what the inmates would do to trump jr. he might like it. now trump would get extorted daily, no doubt
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