Who is Ron DeSantis?

By Rich Kozlovich

One of my correspondents, and friend, sent a piece to me who thought I needed to do a piece on this.  It starts out asking, Who is Ron DeSantis?, saying:

60 Minutes had a hit piece on DeSantis - the Governor of Florida - but failed to disclose all these facts. 

 

The article goes on to outline his life thus far.  He's ethnically of Italian decent, a native Floridian, was a good student and a good athlete.  His Little League team made it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.  He was captain of of Yale's baseball team and in his senior year had a .336 batting average.   

 

He has a B.A. in history from Yale, graduating magna cum laude, and then spent a year teaching history, and then graduated from Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.

 

 I really like that he has a history degree, but I worry about anyone who took history at one of the Ivy league schools since they've become contaminated with style history, which is pretty much high smelling and low down.  As for anyone who studied law at Harvard, that should be a red flag because it's a vipers nest of anti-Constitution leftists.  

 

But one of two things we have to conclude.  It wasn't that bad during his time at those "institutions" - or - he was smart enough to recognize the smell of horsepucky.   I go for the latter.

 

However, he served as an officer in the Navy JAG corp, which also fails to impress me since I was in the Navy, and I despised the officers, I still do, and the Uniform Military Code of Military Justice is neither "uniform" nor is it "justice", and it was his job to enforce it. 

 

If any enlisted man had done what many of these ranking officers have done in recent years, they'd end up in federal prison...... for a long time.  So all of these kinds of thing, which is considered impressive by most people, doesn't impress me. 

He then went on to represent Florida's 6th congressional district in the US House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.  From this point on I now become impressed! 

In spite of all that potential contaminating background, he was, and is, a strict conservative.  He fought for term limits, and rejected Congressional pension and health insurance plan.  Too expensive I'm sure, but, he apparently he doesn't like "special deals for politicians."  He wants to cut taxes,  and he:

 "sponsor(ed) legislation that makes it easier for the military to prosecute sexual assault, and wrote a bill to end a secret Congress slush fund funded by taxpayers to make hush payoffs for sexual harassment.   He also fought for the No Budget/No Pay Act, which provided that Congress members wouldn't receive a salary unless Congress passed a budget by October 1, 2012."

A founding member of the Freedom Caucus in the House with the intention of pushing the GOP leadership to the right, which is still a major problem, that can only be fixed with term limits. 

When DeSantis decided to run for Governor of Florida, he resigned from Congress with a clear demonstration of the values he believes in: 

"it would be 'inappropriate' to earn his $174,000 annual salary while on the campaign trail and missing out on congressional business, and thus resigned and gave up his Congress salary."

He was endorsed by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham  and then Trump during his race for governor, who he supported during the clown ridden Mueller investigation.  The one thing that resonates with me is he absolutely refused to accept the demand for lockdowns, masks, enforced vaccinations, and wasn't the least bit intimated by the media, Fauci, Washington, and Andrew Cuomo with all their slurs, and he was right.  Time and truth are on the same side.  

 

More can be found here, but now I'm impressed.  It appears he's the kind of man who says what he believes, believes what he says, and makes no apologies for being a legitimate conservative. What's not to like? 

 

Please review my Ron DeSantis file. 

 

Update:  Ron DeSantis: Florida Parents Should Have the Right to Sue for Negative Effects of School Districts’ Forced Masking - 12 Feb 2022, by Hannah Bleau  86 Comments