ANNALS OF DeSANTIStAN: Who Owns RON DeSANTIS (Mother Jones)

If Florida is still corrupt, here's Exhibit A. Who owns or rents Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTI$, our disgraceful ex-Congressman from St. Johns County, a bumptious bigot, who disdained citizens and Commissioners while trolling for campaign cash and face time on faux Fox News? Mother Jones has assembled a list of 313 contributions of $100,000 or more from DeSANTIS's last big money campaign. Check it out, my friends. Notice any surprises here? The $100,000+plus Club includes devious developer-Senator TRAVIS JAMES HUTSON, controversial ICI Homes Chair and University of Florida Board Chairman MORI HOSSEINI, among others, including developers, gamblers, polluters, government contractors, and others, including sordid or assorted right wingers desiring government favors. From Mother Jones Magazine. https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2023/11/annals-of-desantistan-who-owns-ron.html From Mother Jones Magazine: 

Who Owns Ron DeSantis?

In his last campaign, he pulled in 313 contributions of $100,000 or more from an assortment of plutocrats and special interests.

NINA WANG, DAVID CORN, AND RUSS CHOMA9 HOURS AGO

Mother Jones; Bryon Houlgrave/AP

In recent months, Ron DeSantis has received a load of bad press focused on his slippage in the 2024 polls, shake-ups within his organization, and less-than-stellar campaign finances. Yet the Florida governor is one of the most prodigious political cash-chasers in recent US history. When he successfully ran for reelection in Florida in 2022, DeSantis, who was first elected to the Sunshine State’s top executive position four years earlier, raised a whopping $211 million for his state political committee and set an all-time record for gubernatorial fundraising. Along the way, he collected huge bundles of campaign money from eccentric billionaires, magnates who had run afoul of the law, corporations that seek lucrative contracts from the government he runs, and even a prominent businessman once identified by law enforcement authorities as associated with a Mafia crime family. 

What made DeSantis’ money-grab such a feat was that most of the candidates he surpassed were tycoons who had poured their own fortunes into their campaign treasuries. (Businesswoman Meg Whitman dumped $144 million of personal funds into her unsuccessful quest in 2010 for the California governorship.) DeSantis topped them all by hitting up corporations, fat-cat donors, and political action committees for super-sized contributions. Gargantuan donations in the six-, seven-, and eight-digit range poured into his political pockets. Of the more than 200,000 contributors to his 2022 effort, 313 handed him $100,000 or more, with 11 slipping DeSantis $1 million or more. These $100,000-and-above donations accounted for $113 million, or 54 percent of his total take. 

Florida imposes no restraints on the size of political donations to state political committees. (In a presidential race, a contributor can only give $3,300 directly to a candidate, but an unlimited amount to an independent-expenditure committee, better known as a super PAC, which supports the candidate.) DeSantis took advantage of Florida’s wide-open campaign finance system to bring in a never-before-seen amount of dollars, swamping his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist, who collected a measly $32 million. Despite DeSantis’ current financial woes, the 2022 contest demonstrates that he can pull in the big bucks. It also shows who has their hooks into DeSantis.

A large chunk of the cash DeSantis raised for his gubernatorial race has gone into boosting his presidential bid—perhaps illegally. At the end of his successful reelection contest, DeSantis had about $82 million remaining in his war chest. Earlier this year, what was left of his state campaign committee transferred that money to a super PAC called Never Back Down that has been supporting DeSantis’ presidential effort. “There’s no question that it’s illegal for a federal candidate to transfer money they raised for a state committee to a federal super PAC,” Erin Chlopak, senior director for campaign finance at Campaign Legal Center who worked for nearly a decade as part of the Federal Election Commission’s Office of General Counsel, told OpenSecrets, a nonprofit, in May. The Campaign Legal Center and End Citizens United each have filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission alleging that DeSantis’ transfer of money raised for a state campaign to a federal campaign violates federal election law. 

Though DeSantis routinely blasts the so-called swamp—”I don’t want top drain the swamp, I want to break it,” he has exclaimed—and decries elites and the “ruling class,” this list of donors is chockfull of the rich and powerful: people, companies, and PACs that seek out policies and favors from elected officials. While major presidential candidates are often the recipients of similar largesse via political parties and PACs, few office-seekers in modern-day America have directly received such immense donations from so many sources as has DeSantis. He is—or was—a king of big-money politics.

His 2022 gubernatorial race provides a perspective into DeSantis’ fundraising world. It reveals that while holding power in the state of Florida, he has pursued ultra-rich and out-of-state donors to fill his campaign chest. His roster of contributors includes businesses that his administration awarded major contracts.

So even as DeSantis trods a rougher path in the 2024 GOP race, it’s worth looking at the well-heeled spenders who financed his last political venture. These are his underwriters—the people and organizations to which he is indebted and would be should he find himself in the White House. 

Below is a long list of the members of DeSantis’ $100,000-Plus Club. (The number of donors who handed him between $10,000 and $100,000—nothing to sneeze at—is also substantial: 1,754 people and entities.) And there are contributors and patterns that warrant a shout-out before we turn to the roll call.  

The most generous financial supporters of DeSantis’ gubernatorial campaign were Republican outfits, such as the Republican Governors Association ($21 million), and the usual assortment of GOP megadonors: Robert Bigelow ($10 million), a hotel magnate who has used his fortune to fund efforts seeking to prove the existence of UFO aliens and an afterlife; Ken Griffin ($5 million), the CEO of multinational hedge fund Citadel and a reliable source of money for conservative candidates and causes; Walter Buckley Jr. ($1.25 million), the co-founder of a venture capital fund that made a fortune in the dot-com bubble; Paul Tudor Jones II ($1 million), a hedge-fund billionaire who has played both sides of the street by supporting the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani; and Bruce Rauner, ($960,000), a former GOP governor of Illinois who lives in a posh gated community in Key Largo, Florida, which received early access to Covid vaccination. (Griffin has yet to commit to a 2024 candidate. Recently, he was talking up former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.)

The list continues: Richard Uihlein ($700,000), the billionaire co-founder with wife Elizabeth Uihlein ($500,000) of the Uline shipping company, who financed a group that organized the rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and candidates involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election; Charles Johnson ($594,919), a principle partner of the San Francisco Giants and a financial underwriter of pro-Trump election deniers; Edward DeBartolo Jr. ($522,000), a businessman best known as former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020 for his involvement in a gambling fraud case in Louisiana in the 1990s; Bernie Marcus ($500,000), a cofounder of Home Depot, who has denounced “woke people [who] have taken over the world” (Marcus recently endorsed Donald Trump); and John Childs ($456,592), the chairman of a private equity firm who was charged with solicitation of prostitution in 2019 in a Florida sex spa scandal. (The charges were later dropped and his record expunged.) 

Of course, far-right groups kicked in loads of cash, led by the Club for Growth PAC ($2 million) and the Judicial Crisis Network ($500,000). DeSantis’ money-bags included business PACs—for instance, the Realtors Political Advocacy Committee ($375,203) and the Voice of Florida Business Political Action Committee ($475,000)—as well as those companies and entities that do business with the state, foremost among them the Seminole Tribe of Florida ($2 million), with whom DeSantis forged a $2.5 billion deal that allowed the tribe to expand its gambling operations to include sports betting, craps, and roulette.

Other one-hand-washes-the-other contributions came from Phillips and Jordan ($252,500), a construction firm that was granted a $175.8 million contract by the state for an Everglades restoration project; Nomi Health ($252,250), which was handed $46 million in contracts by the state in 2021 for Covid-19 testing and vaccine work; and Herzog Contracting ($250,000), which pocketed at least $32.7 million in contracts from the Florida Department of Transportation during DeSantis’ tenure. JM Family Enterprises, a huge automotive conglomerate that lobbied the state legislature to pass a bill banning most automaker-to-consumer direct sales that DeSantis later signed, sent $325,000 to his campaign. 

DeSantis’ top donors are riddled with folks and outfits with checkered pasts. For example, HillCour, Inc. ($312,409) and another firm agreed to pay over $7 million to the US Health and Human Services Department to resolve allegations in 2018 related to a Medicaid kickback scheme. Onetime Los Angeles nightclub mogul Sam Nazarian ($179,581) in 2014 gave up control of a Las Vegas hotel after an investigation revealed he had used drugs and paid $3 million in alleged extortion payments to felons. Health Option One ($125,000) faced a lawsuit in 2021 for an alleged bait-and-switch scam in which customers were duped into buying limited-coverage health care plans. The company denied the allegations and later agreed to settle the dispute.

Businessman John Cafaro ($120,000) in 2010 was sentenced to three years’ probation for failing to disclose a loan to his daughter’s congressional campaign. Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn ($100,000) was accused last year by the Justice Department of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China and lobbying Trump on that country’s behalf in order to protect his business interests in Macau. (A federal judged dismissed the case; government lawyers are currently appealing the decision.) Separately, Wynn was accused of sexually harassing dozens of his employees and pressuring them to perform sexual acts. He agreed to pay Nevada a $10 million settlement in July to resolve the sexual misconduct case. DeSantis accepted $100,000 from the John Rosatti Trust, a fund connected to businessman John Rosatti, an automotive and restaurant tycoon (and founder of BurgerFi) who three decades ago was linked to the mob. Rosatti was identified by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement as an alleged associate of the Colombo crime family in New York City, according to a 1993 decision by the state’s Casino Control Commission.

Other notable contributions came from Leila Centner ($301,000), the co-founder of the Miami-based Centner Academy, which was a hotbed of anti-vax activism and disinformation during the Covid pandemic; Adam Marcus Hendry ($100,000), whose company, Tzadik Management, filed more evictions during the early days of the pandemic than any other landlord in Florida, according to a July 2020 analysis by the Center for Public Integrity; and the Portopiccolo Group ($100,000), a private equity company that acquired nursing homes during the pandemic and caused disruptions at facilities that resulted in weakened care for residents, according to investigations by the Washington Post and the New Yorker. Tread Standard LLC, a mysterious shell company, handed $210,000 to DeSantis. 

DeSantis rounded up quite a collection of billionaires, corporations, right-wingers, and reprobates, as he collected over one-fifth of a billion dollars for his 2022 campaign. Never before in modern American politics has a non-presidential candidate bagged so much in direct donations from the well-heeled and special interests. At this point, DeSantis is far from a good bet to be the next resident of the White House. But whatever happens in the GOP presidential sweepstakes, he will stay a powerful force in Florida and likely continue to be prominent within national politics. That means all these donations could remain solid investments and hold their value. 

The DeSantis campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment regarding the fundraising for his 2022 race or the transfer of funds from that effort to the super PAC now supporting his presidential bid. 

Here are the 313 donors who invested $100,000 or more in DeSantis during his 2022 reelection campaign:

1. $21 million, Republican Governors Association
2. $10 million, Robert Bigelow, hotel magnate
3. $7.3 million, Florida state matching funds
4. $7 million, Republican Party of Florida
5. $5 million, Ken Griffin, founder of hedge fund Citadel
6. $2 million, Club for Growth PAC
7. $2 million, Seminole Tribe of Florida
8. $1.25 million, Walter Buckley, Jr., retired venture capitalist
9. $1.1 million, David MacNeil, car accessories company founder
10. $1 million, James Bowen, Jr., financial services chairman
11. $1 million, Paul Tudor Jones II, hedge fund billionaire
12. $960,000, Bruce Rauner, former Illinois governor
13. $700,000, Richard Uihlein, billionaire co-founder of Uline shipping company
14. $680,000, Florida Prosperity Fund
15. $594,919, Charles Johnson, San Francisco Giants principal partner
16. $522,000, Edward DeBartolo, Jr., businessman and former 49ers owner
17. $521,325, James Pallotta, investment company founder
18. $509,200, Sun Labs USA Inc, healthcare company
19. $505,000, Gale Lemerand, restauranteur
20. $500,000, Patricia Duggan, glass artist and museum founder
21. $500,000, Spring Bay Capital, investment firm
22. $500,000, Judicial Crisis Network
23. $500,000, Bernie Marcus, Home Depot co-founder
24. $500,000, Disruptor, Inc., investment firm
25. $500,000, Elizabeth Uihlein, billionaire co-founder of Uline shipping firm
26. $500,000, Craig Mateer, investment manager
27. $487,500, J. Christopher Reyes Trust
28. $475,000, Voice of Florida Business Political Action Committee
29. $462,500, M. Jude Reyes 1999 Trust
30. $456,592, John Childs, chairman of private equity fund
31. $450,960, NextGen Management LLC, medical technology company
32. $440,000, Floridians for a Stronger Democracy
33. $405,000, Hutson Companies LLC, real estate developer
34. $400,000, McCormick Drive LLC, real estate investment company
35. $400,000, Florida Care, Inc., healthcare company
36. $375,204, Realtors Political Advocacy Committee
37. $370,000, Associated Industries of Florida Political Action Committee
38. $367,750, TECO Energy, Inc., utilities company
39. $360,000, Floridian’s United for Our Children’s Future
40. $360,000, Thomas Peterffy, Hungarian American billionaire
41. $350,000, Floridians for Economic Advancement
42. $345,000, Palm Beach Innovation Task Force
43. $325,000, JM Family Enterprises, Inc., automotive company
44. $325,000, Fidelity National Financial, Inc. PAC for Florida
45. $312,409, HillCour Inc, healthcare services
46. $305,000, Timothy and Harvey Youngquist, drilling company executives
47. $304,000, Roma-HC Bridge LLC
48. $303,000, Conservatives for Principled Leadership
49. $303,000, Charter Communications, Inc., telecommunications provider
50. $301,000, Leila Centner, co-founder of Centner Academy
51. $300,000, Cannae Holdings LLC, investment and management company
52. $300,000, iGas USA Inc, refrigerant supplier
53. $300,000, MasTec Inc, infrastructure construction company
54. $295,000, Elaine Wold, philanthropist
55. $288,426, Steven Scott, healthcare and technology investor
56. $277,650, Anderson Columbia Company Inc, heavy civil construction firm
57. $261,308, Testing Matters, Inc., clinical laboratory
58. $257,000, Dawn and John Hamlin, marketing executive and wife
59. $255,000, Betty Roschman, wife of late fast food restauranteur
60. $252,500, Phillips and Jordan Inc, construction company
61. $252,250, Nomi Health, Inc., health care services provider
62. $250,000, Lorybo Holdings LLC, financial company
63. $250,000, Whip Fund Raising LLC
64. $250,000, Herzog Contracting Corporation, railroad and highway contractor
65. $250,000, Moshe Popack, real estate investor
66. $250,000, Black Knight Infoserv LLC, data and analytics provider
67. $250,000, Nilda Milton Revocable Trust
68. $250,000, Eisenhower Management, Inc., real estate developer
69. $250,000, Driven Capital Management LLC, real estate investment manager
70. $250,000, Nathan Saks, real estate developer
71. $250,000, Steven Herrig, insurance company executive
72. $250,000, John W. Childs 2013 Revocable Trust
73. $250,000, Rural Route 3 Holdings LP
74. $250,000, Barrow Realty LLC
75. $250,000, Island Doctors
76. $248,189, Thomas Corr, oil import executive
77. $229,221, Ged Lawyers LLP
78. $225,000, Daytona Toyota
79. $225,000, Maya Ezratti Revocable Trust
80. $225,000, Daniel Doyle, Jr., imaging equipment executive  
81. $220,000, Florida Chamber of Commerce PAC
82. $214,200, Blake Casper, businessman and former restauranteur
83. $210,000, Anthony Lomangino, trash and recycling tycoon
84. $210,000, Stephen Ross, real estate executive
85. $210,000, Tread Standard LLC
86. $200,000, Thomas Smith, investment manager
87. $200,000, William Austin, hearing aid manufacturing executive
88. $200,000, JL Holding Corp, property management
89. $200,000, The Big Easy Casino
90. $200,000, CFG Community Bank
91. $200,000, The Committee for Justice, Transportation and Business
92. $200,000, Dosal Tobacco Corporation
93. $200,000, South Development Corporation
94. $200,000, Florida Phosphate Political Committee, Inc.
95. $200,000, Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits LLC
96. $200,000, Automated Healthcare Solutions LLC
97. $200,000, Book Capital Enterprises LLC
98. $200,000, Riaz Valani, investor and early e-cigarette investor
99. $200,000, Lawrence DeGeorge, venture capitalist
100. $200,000, Ronald Foster, Jr., construction executive
101. $200,000, Supporters of Comprehensive Primary Care PC
102. $200,000, UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
103. $200,000, Kane Financial Services LLC
104. $200,000, Junction City Mining Co LLC
105. $200,000, Andrew James McKenna, late McDonald’s chairman 
106. $187,500, Cheryl and Michael Meads, DeSantis appointee to a water board and her husband
107. $187,000, Troy Link, meat snacks executive
108. $179,581, Sam Nazarian, veteran nightclub mogul
109. $178,000, Ygrene Energy Fund Inc, home improvement loan provider
110. $175,000, Raymond Hyer, retired asphalt executive
111. $175,000, Richard Corbett, real estate developer
112. $175,000, Murray Goodman, real estate developer
113. $175,000, Metro Development Group LLC
114. $175,000, Alex Kleyner, real estate investor 
115. $170,597, Bank of Tampa Money Market Account
116. $170,000, James Davis, billionaire co-founder of staffing agency
117. $170,000, Committee of Safety Net Hospitals of Florida
118. $169,735, The Villages of Lake Sumter, Inc., retirement community
119. $165,000, Homes by WestBay LLC, home construction company
120. $161,071, ICI Homes Residential Holdings LLC, home building company
121. $160,000, Hudson Capital Group
122. $160,000, Rom L. Reddy Revocable Trust
123. $160,000, Jorie Kent, travel company co-owner
124. $158,350, John Rood, real estate executive
125. $155,454, Patrick Neal, Florida real estate developer and former politician
126. $155,031, Rahul Patel, DeSantis-appointed University of Florida trustee 
127. $155,000, FTA PAC, Inc.
128. $153,000, Florida Credit Union Political Action Committee (Florida CUPAC)
129. $150,745, Jay Demetree, Jr., real estate developer
130. $150,350, James Heavener, real estate manager
131. $150,229, Humana Inc, health insurance company
132. $150,000, John Foster Kirtley, investment firm co-founder
133. $150,000, Dennis and Graciela McGillicuddy, real estate director and philanthropist
134. $150,000, Strong Communities of Southwest Florida PC
135. $150,000, William Parfet, former CEO of drug testing company
136. $150,000, Wayne Huizenga Jr., son of billionaire who launched Blockbuster
137. $150,000, Vahan Gureghian, charter school entrepreneur
138. $150,000, Dream Finders Homes LLC
139. $150,000, Equality Champions, political committee
140. $150,000, La Ley Con John H. Ruiz PA, law firm
141. $150,000, DentaQuest PAC TN C
142. $150,000, Sasha Averdick, design studio owner
143. $150,000, R & L Transfer Inc, freight shipping company
144. $150,000, Publix Super Markets, Inc.
145. $150,000, Lockwood Management LLC, property management company
146. $150,000, James Liautaud, founder of Jimmy John’s sandwich chain
147. $150,000, P&L Investments LLC, investment management firm
148. $150,000, RaceTrac Petroleum Inc
149. $145,000, Gregory Burns, freight shipping executive
150. $145,000, Jeffrey Silverman, investment management executive
151. $140,000, SPF Roofing Systems, Inc.
152. $137,500, FTBA Transportation PAC
153. $137,500, Brent Sembler, real estate development executive
154. $136,000, Partridge Investments LLC
155. $135,000, Peter Morse, investment manager
156. $133,000, Marshall Field, investor and department store heir
157. $130,079, Fort Partners LLC, real estate company
158. $130,000, Citizens for Principled Leadership PC
159. $128,000, Florida Medical Association Political Action Committee
160. $128,000, Jacksonville Kennel Club, Inc., greyhound racing
161. $125,000, Florida Harbor Pilots Association, Inc.
162. $125,000, Davidson 2005 LLC, textile manufacturing
163. $125,000, Ring Power Corporation, construction equipment dealer
164. $125,000, Independent Living Systems, home health services company
165. $125,000, Jonathan Lubert, hedge fund executive
166. $125,000, Cody Khan, hotel and resort owner
167. $125,000, ECN Capital Advisory Group LLC
168. $125,000, LaunchED, education company
169. $125,000, Charles Lydecker, insurance executive
170. $125,000, FPF Fire PC, firefighters association political committee
171. $125,000, Bruce Toll, luxury-home building company co-founder
172. $125,000, Health Option One LLC, insurance company
173. $125,000, Keeping Florida Affordable PC
174. $125,000, 10jin LLC, technology provider for schools
175. $125,000, Thomas Murphy, Boca Raton resident
176. $125,000, ABC Liquors, Inc.
177. $125,000, Vecellio Group, Inc., construction company
178. $125,000, The Presidential Coalition LLC, conservative political organization
179. $125,000, Trulieve Inc, cannabis dispensary
180. $120,000, John Cafaro, real estate developer and investor
181. $120,000, Elevated LLC
182. $120,000, Aspect Holdings LLC, investment firm
183. $120,000, Centene Management Company LLC, health insurance company
184. $120,000, Richard Cole, DeSantis-appointed University of Florida trustee
185. $117,250, Florida Home Builders PAC
186. $115,313, Herbert Henkel, former CEO of Ingersoll-Rand
187. $115,000, Benjerome Trust
188. $115,000, Toyota of Orlando
189. $114,653, Omeed Malik, former Bank of America executive
190. $113,783, St. Joe Company, real estate developer
191. $111,250, Barbara Feingold, DeSantis-appointed Florida Atlantic University trustee
192. $111,217, William Foley II, insurance company executive
193. $110,000, Roy Hinman II, family medicine physician
194. $110,000, Thomas Sabatino, Florida resident
195. $110,000, John Slavic, investment management executive
196. $110,000, Richard Chaifetz, billionaire founder of ComPsych Corporation 
197. $110,000, Silva & Silva PA, law firm
198. $110,000, Daniel Baker, concrete company founder
199. $110,000, Greener Pastures LLC, landscaping company
200. $109,978, Brian Sidman, founder of real estate private equity firm
201. $109,000, Willis Johnson, billionaire founder of car auction company
202. $108,000, Robert W. Stork Revocable Trust
203. $106,809, Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.
204. $105,000, Foley & Lardner LLP, law firm
205. $105,000, Michael Rabinowitz, investment banking executive
206. $105,000, Diane Weiss, retired Boca Raton resident
207. $104,704, Nancy and Gary Chartrand, philanthropists
208. $103,290, Vector Group Ltd, holding company for tobacco and real estate
209. $103,000, RAI Services Company, tobacco company
210. $103,000, Digrijay Gaekwad, entrepreneur
211. $103,000, Orange Park Kennel Club Inc, greyhound racing
212. $103,000, Anthony Imbesi, luxury yacht broker
213. $102,500, McNitt Management, Inc., construction management
214. $102,500, Jason Hope, technology executive
215. $100,500, Kemp Ruge & Green Law Group
216. $100,200, Neomi Dezertzov, wife of real estate executive
217. $100,125, Richard Boyce, former investment firm partner
218. $100,000, Jeff Yass, billionaire co-founder of trading firm Susquehanna 
219. $100,000, JAT Capital Partners LP
220. $100,000, James Davis, billionaire majority owner of New Balance
221. $100,000, Victoria Rose, retired Pompano Beach resident  
222. $100,000, Wilbur Ross, businessman and former secretary of commerce
223. $100,000, HGI DB Fund I LLC, capital management
224. $100,000, Jamie B. Coulter Trust
225. $100,000, Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc.
226. $100,000, Helen Schwab, wife of investment firm founder Charles Schwab
227. $100,000, Kenny Troutt, billionaire founder of Excel Communications
228. $100,000, Myrtle Management, Inc., real estate company
229. $100,000, Summit Contracting Group, Inc., construction company
230. $100,000, The Portopiccolo Group, private equity firm
231. $100,000, Evan Trestman, attorney
232. $100,000, Joseph Imbesi, real estate investor
233. $100,000, Morris Automotive Consultants LLC
234. $100,000, Arch Aplin III, former head of convenience chain Buc-ee’s
235. $100,000, Discover, LLC, investment management
236. $100,000, Jay Francis, auto sales manager 
237. $100,000, Steve Wynn, former luxury casino and hotel developer
238. $100,000, Miller Electric Company
239. $100,000, Colleen Simeone, Florida resident
240. $100,000, David K Reyes Living Trust
241. $100,000, Victoria Stapleton, marketing executive
242. $100,000, Douglas Scharbauer, Texas oil mogul and racehorse owner
243. $100,000, Joseph O’Brien, Jr., auto dealer
244. $100,000, K12 Management, Inc., education company
245. $100,000, Indelible Business Solutions, Inc., management consulting firm
246. $100,000, Phillip Frost, health care investor
247. $100,000, Phillip Ruffin, gambling industry billionaire
248. $100,000, Brenda O’Loughlin, real estate developer
249. $100,000, Wendover Art Group, wall art company
250. $100,000, Amscot Corporation, financial services company
251. $100,000, Intrivo Diagnostics Inc, at-home COVID tests company
252. $100,000, IGT Global Solutions, gambling equipment manufacturer
253. $100,000, The Collection, automotive dealership
254. $100,000, ICI Homes, Inc., home construction company
255. $100,000, Itzhak Ezratti, Israeli founder of homebuilding company
256. $100,000, Payward, Inc., cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform
257. $100,000, PPRE LLC, development company
258. $100,000, Adam Marcus Hendry, real estate executive
259. $100,000, Boyne Capital Management LLC
260. $100,000, Standard Industries, Inc., industrial company
261. $100,000, Elijah Norton, Arizona insurance executive and political candidate
262. $100,000, Wayne Boich, investment executive
263. $100,000, Pamela Muma, philanthropist
264. $100,000, Dynamic Commerce Ventures LLC, real estate development
265. $100,000, Dwight Schar, founder of homebuilding giant NVR
266. $100,000, Creighton Companies LLC, construction company
267. $100,000, Administrative Group LLC, restaurant management
268. $100,000, Purple Good Government PAC
269. $100,000, TCI Holdings LLC, construction company
270. $100,000, Michael William Kosloske, retired insurance executive
271. $100,000, Wescon Management Group Inc, automotive services
272. $100,000, Joseph White, plumbing company chairman
273. $100,000, Stuart Lasher, financial manager
274. $100,000, The Vestcor Companies Inc, real estate development
275. $100,000, Sharon Nuckolls, Florida resident
276. $100,000, George Heisel, Jr., financial company shareholder
277. $100,000, Dhruv Management LLC, hotel management
278. $100,000, Cirilla Milton, homemaker
279. $100,000, Franklin Street Financial Partners
280. $100,000, Lester Woerner, real estate investment chairman
281. $100,000, Mark Kolokotrones, financial and venture capital executive
282. $100,000, ANF Group Inc, Florida-based contractor
283. $100,000, Florida Free Enterprise Fund
284. $100,000, Mara L. S. Delminium Trust
285. $100,000, David Baum, sensor manufacturing executive
286. $100,000, Anita Zucker, chemical manufacturing executive
287. $100,000, Gary Yeomans, car dealerships owner
288. $100,000, UBS Financial Services
289. $100,000, John Falkner, industrial farm owner and developer
290. $100,000, John Rosatti Trust
291. $100,000, Cherna Moskowitz, wife of late businessman Irving Moskowitz
292. $100,000, John Rakolta III, president of Detroit-based construction company
293. $100,000, Florida Manufactured Housing Association PAC, Inc.
294. $100,000, Chris D. Peyerk Trust
295. $100,000, Steven Witkoff, founder of real estate firm
296. $100,000, Thomas Tull, billionaire former film producer
297. $100,000, First Coast Energy LLP, major distributor of Shell gas
298. $100,000, Michael White, insurance sales
299. $100,000, Gregory Cook, co-founder of multilevel marketing company doTerra
300. $100,000, Derek Carr, retired Boca Raton resident
301. $100,000, Darwin Deason, billionaire computer services entrepreneur
302. $100,000, Benderson Development Co LLC
303. $100,000, Jeffrey Roschman, fast food heir and executive
304. $100,000, Belleair Bluffs Management LLC, investment management
305. $100,000, Denise Coyle, property development executive
306. $100,000, Debra Gelband, foundation executive
307. $100,000, Rick Case Enterprises, automotive dealerships company
308. $100,000, John Kang, health care company founder
309. $100,000, Peter Worth, insurance executive
310. $100,000, Granger Family Investment Holdings LLC, investment firm
311. $100,000, Robert Day, asset management firm founder
312. $100,000, Frisbie Group LLC, real estate company
313. $100,000, Robert Willenborg, gaming company executive