Florida governor Ron DeSantis will fly migrants to Illinois and Delaware

[Judi Lynn]

Spokesperson confirms plan to continue with immigration stunts which have attracted investigations and lawsuits

Associated Press in Tallahassee, Florida
Sat 15 Oct 2022 16.37 EDT

The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, plans to continue flying undocumented migrants to Democratic strongholds, his spokeswoman said on Saturday, a day after released records showed the state paid nearly $1m to arrange two sets of flights to Delaware and Illinois.

Documents released on Friday showed that the planned flights will transport about 100 migrants. They were scheduled for before 3 October but were halted or postponed. The contractor hired by Florida extended the window for the trips until 1 December, according to memos released by the state transportation department.

Asked why the flights were postponed, DeSantis’s communications director, Taryn Fenske, said Florida had been busy dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

“While Florida has had all hands on deck responding to our catastrophic hurricane, the immigration relocation program remains active,“ Fenske said.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/15/florida-governor-ron-desantis-fly-migrants-illinois-delaware

[msongs]

1. gee sounds like he is helping immigrants get spread around...the very thing he claims to be against

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Those immigrants that the Republicans hate now?

Are going to be building the 21st century infrastructure to save their Republican Paradises.

[Captain Zero]

2. illinois and New York

should encourage residents NOT to vacation in Florida.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. Floridians Are Obviously All In On His Bullshit

There is No Fucking Way he would be doing this if it were hurting him in the polls. On the contrary, it's probably helping him.

Fuck Florida. Shithole State.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. How does this solve the problem?

It doesn't. Just makes smart solutions more difficult.

[Phoenix61]

11. He doesn't want to solve the problem.

There wouldn’t be anyone to work the fields or clean hotel rooms. If he wanted to solve it he would require all businesses to use e-verify to keep their Florida Business License. IMHO solving the immigration problem will work out as well for the repukes as solving the abortion problem.

[CentralMass]

6. Those states should do early release of some convict and send them to Florida.

The republicans need the help.

[Celerity]

7. Lincoln Project claims Christina Pushaw is Ron DeSantis' 'master strategist'

'Alt-right activist who speaks fluent MAGA and directs all aspects of his campaign.'

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/549191-lincoln-project-claims-christina-pushaw-is-ron-desantis-master-strategist/



The Lincoln Project is closing the week trolling Florida’s Governor, as he stumps for General Election candidates in Pennsylvania and Ohio, by purportedly pointing out the “master strategist” behind the curtain. In a Friday press release entitled “DeSantis rallies with extremists Doug Mastriano and J.D. Vance,” a Lincoln Project co-founder named DeSantis’ rapid response director as the Governor’s go-to for campaign game plans.

“It’s no surprise to see Ron DeSantis amp up his campaign against Donald Trump by campaigning for edge-case candidates like J.D. Vance and Doug Mastriano,” said Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project co-founder. “Directed by his master strategist Christian Pushaw (sic), an alt-right activist who speaks fluent MAGA and directs all aspects of his campaign, DeSantis isn’t just embracing candidates known for their ugly misogyny and open rebellion against our country,” Wilson continued. “These people aren’t just who he’s endorsing; they’re who he is.”

Christina Pushaw was hired as DeSantis’ Press Secretary last year, leaving the position this summer to take the rapid response role in the Governor’s re-election campaign. She did not take the bait, tweaking Wilson for misspelling her name in the press release quote. “All I have to say is anyone who wants to write press releases about me should at least know what my first name is,” she texted Florida Politics, sidestepping Wilson’s attacks.

DeSantis appears to have engineered these rallies, according to Pennsylvania’s Mastriano, who sounded starstruck describing how the DeSantis campaign recruited him for the Keystone State event. “I’m like, are you kidding me? Heck yes,” Mastriano, the state Senator told the right-of-center One America News Network. This mattered to him, he added, “because my goal as governor of Pennsylvania is to make it the Florida of the North because he set the gold standard for the good a Governor can do — leading a state as opposed to what we have in Pennsylvania.”

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[House of Roberts]

8. Arrest the pilots and confiscate the planes.

Charge them with human trafficking. The owners of the planes will stop agreeing to these 'stunts'.

Taking people places under false pretenses is fraud. Whatever is promised to entice these immigrants to get on these planes isn't delivered on arrival.

[Phoenix61]

12. I like the way you think. nt

[NCjack]

9. Reduce FEMA aid by the amount of money DeSatan spends to fly

immigrants to various States. Obviously, Florida has enough money to deal with Ian's mess.

[Walleye]

10. DeSantis won't ever come to Delaware he's afraid. Maybe he can't find it

Come on Ron, why don’t you try a rally in Harriet Tubman park in Wilmington

[SWBTATTReg]

13. Maybe in retaliation, send back 100 unemployed workers to FL? A one for one exchange?

But I do like the tit for tat, on not doing business w/ FL businesses (or TX for that matter), for every plane load shipped. And by the way, how are these governors getting by doing a federal government function, in the interstate transport of immigrants or people across state borders? Wouldn't this be called 'kidnapping'?