A.G. Gancarski
Though the healing has begun between likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis after a bruising back and forth early in the campaign, Florida’s Governor is still helping out old allies who endorsed him.
The latest example of such generosity: a Division of Emergency Management mission to Oklahoma, where Gov. Kevin Stitt backed DeSantis when he was running for President.
“Following the Oklahoma tornadoes, I have directed the (Division of Emergency Management) to deploy an incident management team to Sulphur and a specialized team to Oklahoma City to support ongoing response and recovery efforts. Florida stands with the people of Oklahoma as they navigate this tragic event,” DeSantis posted on X.
Last year, Stitt lauded DeSantis as “the right guy to beat Joe Biden and be in office for eight years” while “officially 100% endorsing Ron DeSantis for President.”
“He never backs down. He’s a true leader, a true conservative and I believe there’s a lot of momentum that’s behind him right now,” Stitt said at the time.
DeSantis’ campaign brought on at least one notable alumna from Stitt’s operation, hiring Carly Atchison Bird as a spokesperson from the Oklahoma Governor’s Office.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Division of Emergency Management said that the framing of the story as one helping out a political ally from last year is “irresponsible reporting” and “despicable and untrue sensationalism.”
“First, deployments of personnel and resources to support other states during emergencies are not ‘generosity courtesy of Florida taxpayers’ as you put it. Missions are reimbursed through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC),” said Marnie Villanueva.
“Second, emergencies are not the time to play politics. Gov. DeSantis has demonstrated his commitment time and again to providing support to communities across the nation during times of need. Since 2019, the Governor has directed the Florida Division of Emergency Management to participate in EMAC deployments to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Montana, Texas, Iowa, Vermont, Hawaii, California and Maine. To suggest that Florida’s support in response to this disaster is based on politics is despicable and untrue sensationalism.”
Some may feel a sense of déjà vu about the current announcement.
In June 2023, DeSantis said he was proud to send similar state help to Iowa, but NBC News documented a question as to whether that help was actually needed.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds backed DeSantis in the Iowa caucuses, a pivotal endorsement for the campaign’s strategy but one that didn’t help the Florida Governor win a single county.
24 comments
Tom
April 30, 2024 at 9:43 am
So I assume if it were a natural disaster in a ‘blue state’ we wouldn’t help? He’s as bad as trump with the divisiveness.
Earl Pitts "AMERICA'S BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT" American
April 30, 2024 at 7:29 pm
Good evening Sage Patriots,
Other than a tiny minority of vocal “Dook 4 Brains Leftys” our Entire Great Nation is thankfull that “Our Next VPOTUS” Ron “THE RONALD” DeSantis provided “Sage “Good Samaratian” Aid & Assistsnce to another states Citizens In Need.
Thank you Sage Patriots “The Nation-Wide Majority Of The USA”!!!!!
And a Big Shout-Out to Ron & The Beautiful Casey DeSantis
Earl Pitts American
tim
May 1, 2024 at 12:23 pm
BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT-
❤️❤️👍
rick whitaker
May 1, 2024 at 12:41 pm
BIG BLOWHARD ON THE RIGHT, EARL ” THE SPHINCTER MAN” SHITS
LawLib
April 30, 2024 at 10:20 am
Agree with Tom. Where is the empathy for other red states who have suffered the ravages from recent tornadoes, like Nebraska, Kansas? Oh!, that’s right, their governors failed to support our notoriously misguided governor for the Republican presidential nomination. If Florida had a recall provision for governor there would be a mile long queue of folks ready to sign on.
Abram Nicholson
April 30, 2024 at 10:45 am
That is the job of the federal government. Not the Florida taxpayers.
rick whitaker
May 1, 2024 at 12:44 pm
ABRAM, tell that to desantis and his supporters.
TJC
April 30, 2024 at 11:35 am
Like Trump, DeSantis sees everything as transactional — including who is worth helping — and uses taxpayers’ money for his transactions. Do a favor for me, you get one back. I do a favor for you first, I expect one back. We help each other, and everyone else can go to hell.
There is nothing kind, Christian, or generous about it. It’s a misuse of the power granted to him as Governor. And like Trump believes, anyone who doesn’t use power this way is a “sucker.”
Dont Say FLA
April 30, 2024 at 12:35 pm
Speaking of using taxpayer money from personal transactions, how much longer till somebody in the Legislature has had enough of Rhonda Dee and leaks his illicit expenditures that were evidently going to be so highly questionable that the legislature exempted them from Sunshine in a gambit to string Rhonda up for pulling Rhonda’s strings after his campaign, as everyone in Florida State Legislature knew due to personal experience with Rhonda, would implode.
Rhonda fell for it and accepted the exemption from Sunshine for his and his campaign.
Just 2+ more years of Governor Lame Duck On A String to go. 🙁
Dont Say FLA
April 30, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Little Rhonda Dee says “Florida stands with the people of Oklahoma as they navigate this tragic event.”
“…but the people Palestine can go EFF themselves and their tragic event, and anybody thinks any different and actually says so here in the self-proclaimed Free State of Florida, those folks will be gassed and arrested and if their skull gets cracked due to their alleged resisting, boo hoo hoo for them and whatever’s left of their brain”
ScienceBLVR
April 30, 2024 at 5:09 pm
DeSantis is the new taxman.. his minions in the legislature take billions from Floridians and tourists so he can waste it to make political points. See Dee’s new campaign slogan( oh he’s gonna run for something)
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman…
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Fed up with the idiocy of government
April 30, 2024 at 6:31 pm
So we are short state troopers in our state and there is a pay raise freeze and a hiring freeze, yet we have our state troopers on the border in Texas because the people who were elected to control the country are more interested in partisan politics than actually doing their constitutional duty in defending this nation against all enemies domestic and foreign. Before long you will have to wait 8 hours for a trooper to respond to an accident or other service. Thanks Ron how about really doing your duty as governor of Florida and let the federal government assume their responsibilities they were elected for. Quit bowing down to the great conman DJT and assume responsibility for the average citizens of Florida who pay your current salary!!!!!
Your bs has nothing to do with this topic that’s what’s wrong this this nation never stay on the subject off on another tangent
Earl Pitts "AMERICA'S BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT" American
April 30, 2024 at 7:37 pm
Thank you Fed up for your “Whiney Diaper Baby Dook 4 Brains Leftist Rambaling Nonsenseical Rant Above”.
I, Earl Pitts American, encourage you to “Have That Talk With Your Doctor” about some medication which will keep you from anoying the rest of the planet before we have no choice but to perform a frontal lobobomy on you for the good of your long suffering family and the rest of “Our Great Nation”.
Thank you
Earl Pitts American
rick whitaker
May 1, 2024 at 12:50 pm
EARL, no humor, no information, no good advice, no truth, no reality, no sage observations, no point. why read your valueless post, no good reason.
MH/Duuuval
May 1, 2024 at 10:03 pm
There are a large number of unfilled jobs in the state of Florida employ. Part of this is about shrinking the workforce even more by eliminating unfilled positions. Try getting an email responded to in Florida — instead you and your email end up in the 11th circle of Dee’s perpetual Hell.
Fed up with the idiocy of government
April 30, 2024 at 6:27 pm
So we are short state troopers in our state and there is a pay raise freeze and a hiring freeze, yet we have our state troopers on the border in Texas because the people who were elected to control the country are more interested in partisan politics than actually doing their constitutional duty in defending this nation against all enemies domestic and foreign. Before long you will have to wait 8 hours for a trooper to respond to an accident or other service. Thanks Ron how about really doing your duty as governor of Florida and let the federal government assume their responsibilities they were elected for. Quit bowing down to the great conman DJT and assume responsibility for the average citizens of Florida who pay your current salary!!!!!
Earl Pitts "AMERICA'S BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT" American
April 30, 2024 at 7:41 pm
Dont worry Fed up,
Most lobodomy survivors dont need diapers and can still control their dook and pretty much live a normal but much less anoying life.
EPA
rick whitaker
May 1, 2024 at 12:52 pm
EARL, whatever dude.
rick whitaker
May 1, 2024 at 1:11 pm
EARL, why are you so obsessed with feces or dook as you call it? all i hear from you is references about dook, diapers, sphincters. so i guess you are what is known as a mud freak. EARL, WHAT IS THIS OBSESSION ABOUT? i’m sure knowing your level of deception, that you will never be honest about your obsession. BTW, why did you not comment on the dishwasher boy incedent at your cincinati bar-b-que shack? i’m not the only preson that knows about it. why don’t you defend yourself to your 4 or 5 florida maga readers? i’m still waiting for the rest of the story as the ahole paul harvey would say.
Dancing Outlaw
May 1, 2024 at 6:37 am
How much longer must we endure this masturbatory, so-called Governor?
I will definitely be remembering on election day all the legislators who allowed him not to resign to run. And I will tick the “never that guy” box for all of them who appear on my ballot
rick whitaker
May 1, 2024 at 1:12 pm
DANCING OUTLAW, great comment!
Ron Forrest Ron
May 1, 2024 at 1:40 pm
What happened to Oklahoma? Did somebody smuggle in some tofu?
Muriel
May 2, 2024 at 4:59 am
Some of you guys are awful. It is time to help someone and you find fault. When we need help during hurricanes other states come. Go hide your head under a rock somewhere, this is not political, people are hurting. by the way you must must be old man Biden fan if this is how you react.
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