A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis thinks the Federal Bureau of Investigation would benefit from an improvement in “culture” that it would get in the Magnolia State.
“I look at something like the FBI and what’s happened to that agency. If the FBI had been headquartered in Biloxi, Mississippi, I do not think you would have seen the culture develop the way it’s been. I think it’s been because it’s been enmeshed in the D.C. politics and D.C. and Virginia, that and the personnel, they’ve got all this stuff that has created this problem over many, many years.”
The Governor made the comments in Johnston, Iowa, on Saturday night, by way of promising to “parcel” federal agencies “all around the country.” His focus on the FBI has increased in recent days.
“We’re also going to look at how the hiring process works in some of these agencies. I mean, clearly there’s a cultural problem in an agency like the FBI and yes, part of that is the leadership, but I think it’s also part of how they’re recruiting and who they’re trying to bring into the organization. So you’re going to see a major overhaul there,” DeSantis promised during the Conservative Review podcast.
DeSantis did not specify his objections with the FBI’s workforce and recruitment efforts, but it should be noted that the federal law enforcement agency has embraced increasing the number of women in its ranks to 30% by the 2030, has recruited at LGBT Pride events, and has prioritized diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
“The diversity and inclusion of our workforce is something I care deeply about … because the success of our efforts impacts our operations, our culture, and our future,” said FBI director Christopher Wray.
DeSantis has floated moving federal agencies. He made a promise to give Iowa “first dibs” on a relocation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
“And so, instead of having the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department in D.C., you know, you can have it in Oklahoma. Instead of having the Department of Agriculture (in the Nation’s Capital), you can have it at Iowa,” DeSantis said.
Those Oklahoma comments seemed to rescind a previous trial balloon to move the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division to Iowa as well.
31 comments
Darnell Hobbs
December 16, 2023 at 8:17 pm
His mental health must really be in decline.
Earl Pitts "Sage Expert on Political Matters" American
December 17, 2023 at 1:26 pm
Good afternoon America,
This is a man with a real agenda to “Drain The Swamp.
America, would you rather have a POTUS who talked about Draining The Swamp and did nothing in that regard in 4 years????
Or, America, a POTUS of Sage Wisdom who is actually telling you how the swamp will be drained.
EPA
rick whitaker
December 17, 2023 at 2:26 pm
earl you and desantis ARE the swamp monsters
Rick Whitaker
December 16, 2023 at 8:59 pm
desantis’ comments sound like pure unfettered white christian nationialism to me.
Deborah M. Henry
December 16, 2023 at 11:01 pm
What intent will be achieved by moving offices already established in Washington to other places accomplish besides cultural shock and underdeveloped stages of the departments already suffering!
tom
December 17, 2023 at 12:25 pm
because the swamp in DC needs to be drained.
rick whitaker
December 17, 2023 at 3:12 pm
tom, the whole state of florida is a swamp, too big to drain.
rick whitaker
December 17, 2023 at 3:59 pm
deborah, gop is a minority party so they dislike places where they aren’t a huge majority; like the blood red states like alabama, mississippi, louisiana, etc. i didn’t mention florida because it has been hijacked by desantis, so after he is gone, it may turn purple. not much, if any, of desantis’ statements make much sense. he panders so much it depends on who he’s talking to.
Michael K
December 16, 2023 at 10:02 pm
Mississippi is at the rock bottom of almost everything – but Florida under DeSantis is sinking even lower. That is not what America wants and certainly not what America needs. Such a pandering idiot.
tom
December 17, 2023 at 12:33 pm
except some of the lowest prices low prices in the country low grocery stores prices, low taxes inducing property and state income. One of the best places to retire 65 and up homestead increasing with age no income tax on social security or IRA or passive income…tornadoes in the north and Hurricanes in the south make it uninhabitable for many and that is a good thing. The land of churches ones that are thriving Thank God!
rick whitaker
December 17, 2023 at 3:09 pm
tom, fla and miss are two of the worst states in the country. all the churches makes miss even worse. you please stay there so the rest of us can live in a more people friendly state. red states contribute less to the country money wise than blue states, but let your gov check get delayed and watch them rednecks squeal.
Neutral nonkie
December 18, 2023 at 1:16 pm
You don’t think that there are any Blues that get gov. checks? Being poor doesn’t make you Dem., or Rep. All these colors you talk about are part of the problem. You are just as bad as the side you hate on.
My Take
December 16, 2023 at 10:45 pm
Driving through a white Mizzipy tòwn or city you ould not throw an egg out the window without hittimg some brand of bigot.
Rick
December 17, 2023 at 9:43 am
If you think that, then don’t drive thru.
rick whitaker
December 17, 2023 at 3:24 pm
rick, the comment by my take was a metaphor. no one would actually want to drive through mississippi
My Take
December 17, 2023 at 11:45 pm
It’s no wonder that we conducted A-bomb tests in Mizzippy.
What worthwhilecould we hurt?
Sonja Fitch
December 17, 2023 at 4:45 am
This man Desantis has totally flipped out! Trump is a walking talking contradiction! Neither Trump nor Desantis have brains to move the common good! Boot these two losers, Desantis and Trump out!!
Dont Say FLA
December 17, 2023 at 10:18 am
Rhonda seems to be confessing how they assume an FBI based Mississippi would just sit on their hands rather than investigate a wave of racist white people murdering black folk.
Rhonda, your slip is showing. Again.
tom
December 17, 2023 at 12:37 pm
no one kills more blacks than blacks. Your cherry picking
MH/Duuuval
December 17, 2023 at 4:31 pm
I believe DSF was speaking historically, as in “Mississippi Burning” days.
At that time, Black Mississippians — such as Mrs. Hamer — necessarily were armed to defend themselves against klan types, which the FBI only reluctantly engaged — and in some cases actually worked against civil rights in the South.
But Tom would prefer to focus on those whose communities that live in disproportionate poverty, miseducation, lack of medical and municipal services, and numerous examples of mis- or mal-policing.
Such as this from Nov. 2023 — “Rankin’s Goon Squad got away with years of brutality:” https://mississippitoday.org/2023/11/30/rankin-county-sheriff-goon-squad-got-away-with-years-of-brutality/
Dont Say FLA
December 19, 2023 at 8:13 am
Exactly my point. FBI HQ in Mississippi is a dog whistle about making America “great” again.
My Take
December 18, 2023 at 1:07 am
Republicans kill them for BEING black.
MH/Duuuval
December 17, 2023 at 4:32 pm
And, hey — what a great backdrop for Dee: a wall of automatic weaponry.
TCJ
December 17, 2023 at 4:42 pm
DeSantis’s message is clear: some Americans are better than other Americans, and it all depends on what part of the country they live in. Red states good, blue states bad. And he intends to govern with that in mind if he becomes President.
And there’s the sleight of hand racism, of course, whenever he derides the population of Washington, D.C., which is 45% Black, a number he is clearly not comfortable with.
tom palmer
December 17, 2023 at 9:46 pm
Mississippi is a sovereign state with sovereign dogs and sovereign hate . It stands with the constitution and the Bible and against communist revolution. It is pinkos like you who freed the slaves—Phil Ochs
MH/Duuuval
December 18, 2023 at 2:53 pm
“They say “It’s pinkos like you that freed the slaves””
Phil Ochs goes on to sing:
“And they’re right.”
My Take
December 18, 2023 at 6:33 am
“Culture” and “Mississippi,” two words not often seen together.
Dont Say FLA
December 19, 2023 at 8:14 am
There’s tons of culture in Mississippi. It’s just not Eurocentric culture, so it gets little attention beyond that of the locals.
MH/Duuuval
December 18, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Charles E. Cobb, Jr., This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
Many of the pinkish-grey hued students who came to Mississippi in 1964 didn’t really know what they we’re getting into, and some local African Americans didn’t want them coming to Mississippi, fearing a bloodbath.
But, armed Blacks organized and kept the heat off in many cases. I would call this a culture of love and caring.
tom palmer
December 18, 2023 at 5:27 pm
previous post was about Alabama. Hard to tell those states apart sometimes.
What I meant to write:
Here’s to the state of Misisissippi,
drags its muddy rivers , unknown bodies you will find, and the factories of the forest will conceal many crimes…..”
Dont Say FLA
December 19, 2023 at 8:18 am
I think Mississippi’s the one with the river from that book we all read as children but is now banned.
Frap it all to heck, after having to fix a typo, i just realized why Rhonda keeps trying to ban Disney: Rhonda does not want children to learn how to spell Mississippi!
That’s actually not bad capitalist strategy there. One point for Casey for that plan. If they can’t spell Mississippi, maybe they won’t flee Florida for Mississippi.
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