DeSantis Gives State Jobs To Fired Campaign Workers

Axios reports:

Ron DeSantis’ gubernatorial office recently hired three people who’d been laid off by the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The Florida governor is leaning on his taxpayer-funded office to keep select aides in his orbit as the campaign goes through a cash shortfall that led it to dump one-third of its staff in July.

The intrigue: DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck told roughly three dozen campaign staffers during a meeting last month at the Tallahassee campaign HQ that they’d be let go. DeSantis’ chief of staff from the governor’s office, James Uthmeier, then appeared and urged them to apply for jobs in his office, two people familiar with the meeting said.

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Last month the Associated Press reported that DeSantis was using state vehicles when four cars in his motorcade crashed into each other on a campaign trip in Tennessee. Three of the vehicles had to be towed from the scene.

SCOOP: Ron DeSantis’ gubernatorial office recently hired three people who’d been laid off by the campaign.

It’s the latest instance of the governor’s taxpayer-funded office blurring lines with his campaign operation.
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