DESANTIS LAUNCHES MONTH-LONG, TAXPAYER-FUNDED PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN TRAVEL SCHEDULE
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With some many people from other states moving to Florida DeSantis needs to go talk to his new potential citizens. Legit taxpayer expense.
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So no Hunter?
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Where is DeSantis traveling on state business? Legislature wants to make it a secret
Citing an increase in public records requests for the governor’s travel schedule, Florida legislators are advancing a bill that would shield from the public any information about how and where Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials go. The bill would impose the first-ever public records exemption for the transportation records held by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the agency that handles the governor’s security. The exemption would take effect retroactively, prohibiting anyone from scrutinizing how DeSantis has used his state travel in the past and as he prepares for a likely campaign for the Republican nomination for president.
“There has been an increase in public records requests regarding our governor and his travel simply because of his notoriety and his position for the past few years,’’ said Sen. Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, the Senate sponsor of the bill. State law allows governors to use state planes for political and personal travel for security reasons but, as DeSantis conducts a national book tour in anticipation of a likely presidential campaign, questions are mounting about whether taxpayer funds have been used to finance his travel and other political operations. In the past, when state officials have used state assets for political purposes, they have been expected to reimburse taxpayers for those efforts. During DeSantis’ term, the governor’s staff has refused to disclose many of the details of his political schedule. Media requests to FDLE for information about the schedule, as well as information about whether taxpayers have been reimbursed, have been met with either no answer or months of delay.
The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times, for example, last year asked for several weeks of the governor’s schedule kept by FDLE. That so-called “line-by-line” schedule provides more detail than the often incomplete schedule released by his communications staff at the end of each day. But, aside from providing a handful of heavily redacted schedules from the month of June and one week in August, FDLE withheld the remaining requests from disclosure, citing a backlog in records requests. SOME GOVERNORS AND LAWMAKERS HAVE MISUSED STATE TRAVEL Florida has a history of scrutinizing its elected officials for using state planes for political and personal purposes. In 1996, former Gov. Lawton Chiles was caught using Florida’s state planes to attend Bill Clinton-Al Gore fundraisers. In 2003, Florida Senate President Jim King, R-Jacksonville, admitted to using state planes for weekend trips home, despite a state law that prohibited the use of state planes for commuting. In 2010, former Gov. Charlie Crist, then a Republican, admitted to using a state plane to promote a pro-business initiative and then attended a Miami campaign fundraiser. The public learned about those and other politicians who used taxpayer funds for private and political business because reporters obtained the records.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article273473455.html#storylink=cpy
Citing an increase in public records requests for the governor’s travel schedule, Florida legislators are advancing a bill that would shield from the public any information about how and where Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials go. The bill would impose the first-ever public records exemption for the transportation records held by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the agency that handles the governor’s security. The exemption would take effect retroactively, prohibiting anyone from scrutinizing how DeSantis has used his state travel in the past and as he prepares for a likely campaign for the Republican nomination for president.
“There has been an increase in public records requests regarding our governor and his travel simply because of his notoriety and his position for the past few years,’’ said Sen. Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, the Senate sponsor of the bill. State law allows governors to use state planes for political and personal travel for security reasons but, as DeSantis conducts a national book tour in anticipation of a likely presidential campaign, questions are mounting about whether taxpayer funds have been used to finance his travel and other political operations. In the past, when state officials have used state assets for political purposes, they have been expected to reimburse taxpayers for those efforts. During DeSantis’ term, the governor’s staff has refused to disclose many of the details of his political schedule. Media requests to FDLE for information about the schedule, as well as information about whether taxpayers have been reimbursed, have been met with either no answer or months of delay.
The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times, for example, last year asked for several weeks of the governor’s schedule kept by FDLE. That so-called “line-by-line” schedule provides more detail than the often incomplete schedule released by his communications staff at the end of each day. But, aside from providing a handful of heavily redacted schedules from the month of June and one week in August, FDLE withheld the remaining requests from disclosure, citing a backlog in records requests. SOME GOVERNORS AND LAWMAKERS HAVE MISUSED STATE TRAVEL Florida has a history of scrutinizing its elected officials for using state planes for political and personal purposes. In 1996, former Gov. Lawton Chiles was caught using Florida’s state planes to attend Bill Clinton-Al Gore fundraisers. In 2003, Florida Senate President Jim King, R-Jacksonville, admitted to using state planes for weekend trips home, despite a state law that prohibited the use of state planes for commuting. In 2010, former Gov. Charlie Crist, then a Republican, admitted to using a state plane to promote a pro-business initiative and then attended a Miami campaign fundraiser. The public learned about those and other politicians who used taxpayer funds for private and political business because reporters obtained the records.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article273473455.html#storylink=cpy
Doesn't he have a job?