A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to find parallels between his state and the one where he needs caucus support Monday.
During remarks in Ames Thursday, DeSantis was talking about the wintry conditions besetting the Hawkeye State, noting that those conditions don’t faze Iowans any more than hurricanes do Floridians.
“If we even ever had a little bit of freeze, everyone freaks out in Florida. But on the hurricanes it’s kind of like, you know, if it’s like a Category 1, people say, ‘All right, you know, we’ll have a picnic or something.'”
“Category 2, well, we’re just go on our way,” DeSantis continued. “Category 3: Well, you know, maybe they’ll make a slight adjustment. Then only if it’s above, then people really start to worry about it because you kind of live and you learn.”
As a candidate, DeSantis devoted time to hurricane relief in 2018, after Michael walloped the Panhandle.
As Governor, storms have been prominent in the narrative also.
DeSantis claimed that prayers at the Western Wall in 2019 kept hurricanes from hitting the state.
In 2022, as he ran for re-election, the Governor faced questions about his office’s inability to figure out where the center of Hurricane Ian would make landfall. He claimed then that the “national regime media” wanted the storm to hit Tampa to exact maximum destruction.
In 2023, the Governor dealt with an insurance market that was as strained as any in Florida history, and that became an issue in the Presidential campaign, with Donald Trump and Nikki Haley weaponizing it against DeSantis.
While campaigning last year, he told a radio host in New England residents of his home state should “knock on wood” and hope the state didn’t get hit by a storm.
Though we are outside of hurricane season, even storms this time of year have consequences, as Floridians found out during this week’s winter storm, which hit as the Governor came back to Florida for his required State of the State speech before heading back to Iowa.
He was in such a rush to get back up north that he forgot his winter coat, he has said at events.
5 comments
Dont Say FLA
January 11, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Real Iowa Men and Women who support Ron DeSantis are so tough they’re going to walk to their local caucus just to prove how tough they are and that the cold ain’t nothin’. Walk! Walk! Walk! Walk barefoot in the snow to prove you’re not a Haley supporting Southerner.
SteveHC
January 11, 2024 at 9:36 pm
– Lol. DeSantis has truly become a card-carrying moron. I guess he’s right in saying that an Ivy League education such as his own produces dumb, ideologically-driven graduates.
Elmo
January 12, 2024 at 8:49 am
He’s nuts.
Walt
January 12, 2024 at 1:58 pm
Shows you how out of touch he is with his own state, not to mention the rest of the country, I sure DO worry about hurricanes.
RVH
January 13, 2024 at 7:38 am
What kind of message is that idiot sending to the residents of Florida by telling them they don’t need to worry about CAT 1, 2 or 3 hurricanes? DeSantis says Haley has a problem with Ballistic Podiatry because she keeps shooting herself it the foot. Well Ron has a Anal Neurology problem and needs to get help to get his head out of his ass.
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