Ron DeSantis is being bankrolled by an 'extraordinary' number of billionaire donors: report

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Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seeking a second term this November as a springboard to run for president in 2024, is backed financially by some of the wealthiest private donors in the United States.

According to an analysis published by correspondent Zac Anderson in Wednesday's Herald Tribune, "dozens of billionaires and billionaire family members with a net worth of $275 billion have donated to DeSantis’ reelection effort, a level of billionaire support one expert called 'extraordinary.'"

Anderson revealed that 42 individuals with net worths of 10-plus digits – or three commas – have invested at least $12.45 million of their cash in DeSantis, who has championed extreme right-wing policies in the Sunshine State and seeks to take his crusade nationwide.

The figures are staggering, per Anderson's reporting:

Total billionaire donors: At least 42
Total contributions from billionaires: At least $12.5 million
State with most DeSantis billionaire contributions: Florida at 12, followed by New York with six, and Texas with five
Billionaire donor with highest net worth: Julia Koch and family at $62.2 billion
Billionaire donor who gave the most: Ken Griffin at $5 million
Billionaire donor who gave the least: Stanley Hubbard at $10,000
Number of billionaires who have given DeSantis at least six figures: 25
Number of states with billionaire DeSantis donors: 15

Other notable names pumping DeSantis full of campaign sugar include:

Publix supermarket heiress and financier of the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection Julie Jenkins Fancelli (family net worth $8.8 billion)
Former President Donald Trump's Secretary of Education and Amway heiress Betsy DeVos as well as three of her kin (family net worth $5.4 billion)
Ex-San Francisco 49ers owner, real estate mogul, and Trump-pardoned Louisiana gambling bribe recipient Edward DeBartolo Jr. (family net worth $2.5 billion).

https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/ron-desantis-bankrolled-extraordinary-billionaires/

[exboyfil]

1. Looking like DeSantis is the heir apparent to Trump

Wonder when the big bucks will force Trump off the stage. I think he has outlived his usefulness to them.

I think DeSantis will do every crappy thing that Trump did, but he will be more effective at it.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The American oligarchs want a dictatorship.

Just like the ones in Russia.

[Cheezoholic]

4. Masked as a single party "Democracy" ala Hungary

et al. Seems to be the in thing and spreading through democracies worldwide like cancer.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes politicians and oligarchs want what China and Russia have.

Totally permanent control and power.
Access to all state financial assets.

They will kill, maim, impoverish as many people as it takes to achieve their goals.

We are just collateral damage in the war they are waging.

[njhoneybadger]

3. Holy Shit, we're fucked

[jimfields33]

8. Val Demmings is our candidate. We are not fucked.

We can win the Florida senate by getting less then one percent more then 2016. DeSantis won by a very small margin and it was a presidential year. We have voters who will vote for Val due to her police background, the abortion issue and for gun control. No way DeSantis wins in November. I guess he can keep the money he collects but that’s hardly a worry for me.

[bahboo]

11. she's running against Rubio....

[jimfields33]

13. Damn. Your right.

[GoldandSilver]

6. Uh....I believe the word is "oligarchs".

[dalton99a]

9. DeSantis is their golden boy

[Chainfire]

10. DeSantis can be depended on, the billionaires know it.

The march to corporatocracy continues.

In my humble opinion, DeSantis is a far bigger danger to Democracy than Trump could ever be.

[Baked Potato]

12. His corruption game would dwarf T***P's piddly showing.

DeSatan is out for revenge.

[twodogsbarking]

14. Cheaper than paying taxes, eh.

[JudyM]

15. Needs to be hammered in to all floridians

Billboards would work if the local media won’t carry the story.