ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN: Donations for dummies. A guide to political payoffs in Florida | Commentary. (Scott Maxwell, Orland Sentinel column)

Not only is Boy Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS for sale, he publiihed a price list in his first year in office as Governor.  https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2019/09/record-editorial-pretty-pricey-golf-in.html Spoiled rotten rebarbative Republican Yale Law School trash is now a millionaire.  From Orlando Sentinel:

Donations for dummies. A guide to political payoffs in Florida | Commentary

Florida campaign laws theoretically cap donations to candidates at $1,000 and $3,000. But that’s really just a joke, since candidates can set up committees that collect unlimited donations. That’s how hemp industry execs were able to give $100,000 to a committee set up by Ron DeSantis after DeSantis vetoed a bill that the hemp industry asked him to kill. (Stock photo)

By SCOTT MAXWELL | smaxwell@orlandosentinel.com | Orlando Sentinel

UPDATED: July 19, 2024 at 11:16 a.m.

This past week, a story surfaced about political contributions in Florida that broke some people’s brains.

It detailed how the state’s hemp industry wanted Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto a bill meant to tighten regulations on their industry and then started cutting him fat checks after the governor did what they’d asked.

First, the Orlando Sentinel reported on a $100,000 check from an Apopka hemp grower to the governor’s political committee. Then, CBS News Miami and the South Florida Sun Sentinel got hold of screen shots from a group chat amongst hemp execs who said they owed the governor and Republican Party for the veto.

“We know nothing in life is free and neither was this veto,” one post said. “Our lobby team made promises to rally some serious funding to stand with him on this.”

and another $3 million after that.

It sounded like ransom money in a Liam Neeson film.

‘Nothing in life is free and neither was this veto’: Group chat shows hemp executives frantically raising millions for Florida GOP after DeSantis veto

A WhatsApp group chat called “Save Florida Hemp” reveals frantic attempts by leaders in the hemp industry to raise millions of dollars for the Republican Party of Florida shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the hemp bill that would have killed the industry.

Sun Sentinel