Ron DeSantis accompanied wife to cancer treatment while critics claimed he was 'missing'

[CatWoman]

what's wrong with this picture? he's been missing at least two weeks. and sorry about using Fox as a source, but it's all I could find:


Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis accompanied his wife to her cancer treatment while critics were accusing the governor of taking a vacation as coronavirus cases spiked, Fox News has learned.

A DeSantis spokesperson said the governor accompanied wife Casey to cancer treatment Dec. 29, the day several left-wing critics accused the governor of "missing."

DeSantis' announced in October that his wife had been diagnosed with breast cancer, telling Fox News at the time that as "the mother of three young children, Casey is the centerpiece of our family and has made an impact on the lives of countless Floridians through her initiatives as first lady."

Democratic Mayor Jerry Demings of Orange County in Florida criticized DeSantis in a press conference Tuesday amid the rising COVID cases, suggesting state residents "should be outraged" with DeSantis not being in front of the media during the spike.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-desantis-missing-accompanied-wife-cancer-treatment

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Yea sure he was ...

[jimfields33]

2. Sometimes politics is ugly.

It actually always has been and more then likely always will. I sincerely hope Mrs. DeSantis kicks this cancer’s ass.

[NightWatcher]

3. First they said he was working, then he was taking time off, then he was with his wife, but I saw

pics from the Orange Bowl last night where he was there with fans. His social media person was rehashing old pics and sending scheduled tweets. They were covering up something.

But fox was running with pics of his young wife for sympathy.

[CatWoman]

5. maybe covid is taking over their family??

[Bobstandard]

7. I don't buy it either

When my wife had cancer I accompanied her to treatments, then went back to work. Of course, his wife’s treatments may be different from the usual chemo and radiation treatments that most go through for breast cancer.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. Many can walk and chew gum at same time! So can Governor DeFascist... if it's a football game

he’s walking to.

[malaise]

4. What I wrote on the subject yesterday

I hate the scumbag but his wife was diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year
Could be related,but he should have explained to the people of Florida

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16199279

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. A couple of minutes on tv to explain?... but chose to remain silent so now can be the victim.

Ofc with the help of Dox, preplanned victimhood outrage.

There is a Covid WAR going on, the commander MIA in a WAR needs explanation, always…unless commander denies a war even exists. Any evidence of that?
Yes, much evidence.

[malaise]

21. Truth is he didn't and doesn't care about those who died/are dying from Covid under his watch

so the compassion angle won’t work.

[pfitz59]

6. He was up to his earlobes fellating potential donors

for his pending run at the Presidency. Faux is playing the sympathy card, providing cover.

[anti stupid]

8. ya well

ok good for him. When he is done, he should accompany all the other people (including mothers of young children) to the hospital that are dying because of his evil political stances on covid.(among other things) ...he gets no Sympathy from me.

[malaise]

22. THIS

The truth - the sympathy card won’t work here after he let all those people die as he violated all the Federal govt protocols. His wife is no more special than anyone else.

[dem4decades]

10. Well wouldn't it be just like a Republican to hide behind a woman's skirt? F him.

[BluesRunTheGame]

12. Fox needs to bring Newt Gingrich and Mark Sanford in to comment on this.

[DBoon]

13. Translation:

He's off the ventilator, a and with a few days of expensive anti-virals he may be able to appear on TV

[CatWoman]

17. DING DING DING

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

[LiberalFighter]

14. And the other days?

[snowybirdie]

15. Bless her

and hope she fully recovers. But methinks he's not beyond using her, and her illness, to cover for himself. He's not trustworthy.

[bedazzled]

16. My boss told me I should learn to separate work from private life

when I asked for vacation time while my mother was DYING

you could pick up a phone for pete's sake. He is full of it

[MontanaMama]

20. That is awful.

I’m sorry that boss was such an a-hole. I tell all my employees that family comes first. Full stop.

[bedazzled]

23. Wish they were all like you!

I realized later he had a damaged upbringing. Not everyone had a great childhood like mine! Have a calm and prosperous new year!

[Wingus Dingus]

18. Sure, Jan.

[madville]

19. Several of us speculated it was a PR trap

When the media started reporting on it he was going to throw out that he was doing something with his wife and her cancer treatment, shutting it down and being able to point at the “biased” media and accuse the critics of not being compassionate towards cancer victims.

It’s like watching a movie you’ve already read the script for.

[bedazzled]

24. it really doesn't change the fact that florida has been even more rudderless than usual

in a rapidly escalating disaster. If you aren't able to do your job, hand it over to someone who can.

Being an unfortunate resident of Florida and unwillingly paying his salary, we deserve to know where he is and what he is doing.

[madville]

27. In Florida as well

I can’t believe it looks like the best we can do is recycle Charlie Crist again to try to beat Desantis this year.

[bedazzled]

29. dens seem to gave given up here

I couldn't believe Gillum won the primary over Gwen Graham. Maybe there are repugs registered as democrats after all. I wish Graham would run again. I could get behind that.

[Ocelot II]

32. That's exactly what I've been suspecting.

He quite appropriately stays with his wife during her treatments, but deliberately conceals this from the public until such time as he can use it. He disappears for two weeks, so naturally there's speculation about where he is and what he's doing, along with complaints that he's not doing his job as the pandemic worsens in FL. Finally he surfaces, announces that he was with his sick wife, and acts all outraged that "the left" was complaining about his absence. It was a setup, I think.

[Ms. Toad]

25. Not much sympathy.

I took a grand total of 3 days off from work when **I** had breast cancer.

I had **my** third surgery for a second cancer on 12/29 last year, and was teaching on 1/3. (I worked the day of and the day after the 1st surgery for that cancer on 11/30, and took a couple of days off following the second on 12/15 - and then immediately started editing papers using talk-to-text since the surgery prevented me from using my right had even for typing for 35 days)

He has already announced his wife has cancer so it's no secret. He can make a quick announcement that he needs to take the day off to accompany her to treatment, place someone else in charge, or take an hour out to address the crisis in his state.

[jmowreader]

26. If that's the case...

…shouldn’t he have handed the reins to his Lieutenant Governor before he went? That’s why states have them.

Is it possible he was afraid his light Governor was going to rescind all his COVID policies?

[mia]

28. Video of Desantis and his wife last night at Miami Baptist New Year event.

Desantis enters stage at 2:50.

[Bristlecone]

30. Man, that is something else right there.

[liberal_mama]

31. Wow, that looks like a real freak show! n/t

[haele]

33. So he takes his wife who's going through cancer treatment -

- to an unmasked Baptist Rave event?
Even if she didn't go through chemo two weeks ago as he's pretending, that's f'ing dangerous.
Unless he's got an eye on a first squeeze #2 to take her place in a few months.

Haele

[IzzaNuDay]

34. You got that right

I’d be protecting a cancer stricken spouse in a bubble!Never leave the house unmasked!

[ARPad95]

35. "Awake America"

Leave it to the bible thumping whack-a-doodles to eventually appropriate everything they're maniacally against when someone else does or thinks of it first. These self-proclaimed "free thinking" "pure blood" "patriotic" schmecks* are exactly the opposite: indoctrinated close-minded inbred anti-American schmecks*.

*What is a schmeck? An adult who never emotionally matured beyond age 10, proudly proves it to the nation in appalling fashion and then thinks (s)he is qualified to govern others who are way beyond his/her EQ and IQ levels.

[bedazzled]

38. Geez that looks awful

Covid spreaders

Soon to be dead-ers

[mbromell69]

36. soooo DEATHsantis is fine

with his wife getting aide from science based folks to deal with cancer?

this bastard is simply TRUMP WITH REAL HAIR

[smirkymonkey]

37. I'm not buying it.

Something is fishy. Even if he was with his wife during her treatments, why would he he hide it?

Also, I just don't buy that he is a caring enough person to sacrifice his political life for his wife during her time of need. He just isn't. Everything he does is for him and his image. Something else is going on.

[panader0]

39. Where did his wife get her treatments?

Contact them and ask if Ron was there every day. Do cancer treatments take two weeks?
Something is fishy indeed.

[smirkymonkey]

46. My mother is going through chemo in VT and they live in upstate NY.

My dad is with her all the time, but he does not go with her to the actual chemo treatments in the hospital as he would be un-needed and nothing but a nuisance. He stays at my brother's house and is there for her to pick her up when her treatment is over. They are about once per month for about a week at at time.

I don't know if that is how all cancers are treated, but I would expect that it goes pretty much the same. I doubt very much there is any reason for him to be with her for two weeks straight with no appearance. Even if he did care about her.

[bedazzled]

40. I don't care if he was drinking JD with Satan

As long as there is somebody doing his job while he is gone. Anybody else would be an improvement

[Hortensis]

41. The truth is what it is. It's possibly a combination of things.

OR just a husband devoting this period to his sick wife. Even sociopaths can weep over a sick kitten, not that I'm saying he's one. I have no magic view into his mind, probably a really good thing.

[Sunsky]

42. Took them long enough to come up with this one

Fact: He's the governor of the state and was missing in action with no reason given. Did he really believe that nobody would've noticed?
Faux news: This last minute rationalization (He has been missing from before Dec 29th).

[mcar]

43. Here he is last night, with his unmasked cancer-patient wife

at a religious rally. Then he went to the Orange Bowl.

Link to tweet

?s=20

Last night, Ron DeSantis got a “freedom” award from Sean Feucht, a man who preached, after DeSantis left the stage, that the Bible doesn’t want people talking about how “covid cases are rising.”

[tblue37]

44. That would not mean he had to be incommunicado.

[Orrex]

45. Her cancer is the second major tragedy in her life.

The first is her choice of husband.

Fuck him. Fuck. Him.

[48656c6c6f20]

48. That's not the way republiQans

Deal with a wife with cancer or MS.
The OG repiglicant had that covered.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marianne-gingrich-newt-wanted-open-marriage-with-me/

[GoCubsGo]

49. Oh, bullshit.

If that was true, there is no reason he couldn't have just said so in the first place. It's not like they're hiding his wife's cancer. Everyone already knows about it. The whole situation reeks.

[Poiuyt]

50. He's the governor, for crissakes

You don't go incommunicado for two weeks, or for two days. His aides should have kept the public apprised of what was going on. They could easily have asked for privacy if it were legitimate.