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Desantis blows Andrade as “Jackass”, while the hope of Florida scandal deepens

Desantis blows Andrade as “Jackass”, while the hope of Florida scandal deepens

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Governor Ron Desantis blew Alex Andrade on May 21 during a press conference on a question of a registered criminal investigation by the Hope Florida Foundation, which is responsible for First Lady Casey Desantis.

“They had a one -state representative with a political agenda and he has a political agenda to try to smear hope in Florida – to try to connect people with the administration,” said Desantis. “Even my wife, who, incidentally, did a great job for this state, not only on Hope Florida, which saves taxpayers $ 100 million and receives $ 30,000 from a non-profit well-being. Do you show me someone in this country who could do that?”

Desantis said his wife had worked to start Hope Florida and other initiatives while she was first lady and has never been paid for this work. He said the Pensacola Republican tried to smear his administration. He never mentioned Andrade's name, but he used other terms.

“She has managed an initiative to help people and they have a donkey in the legislature – I'm sorry, it is true – who tries to smear her, smear good people,” said Desantis.

Desantis repeated the claim that the scandal around Hope Florida is a “produced political operation”.

“How pathetic is it that we have a Republican representative who is committed to legal guidance to try to advance a political agenda?” Said Desantis. “It stinks and everyone knows.”

What is the hope of Florida Scandal?

Hope Florida is a state program, the declared goal of which is to help Floridians from state support and services offered by non -profit organizations and by faith -based organizations. Hope Florida has a foundation to collect private money to support the program.

At the beginning of this year, the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald reported that a donation of 10 million US dollars of Hope Florida came from a lawsuit of 67 million US dollars with the largest Medicaid contractor in Florida, Centene, the report on the report, the Centene overlaped taxpayers by $ 67 million and the Desantis administration -Management of the administration of the company's administration in the same amount.

Instead of all 67 million US dollars that returned to the Medicaid program, 10 million US dollars were sent to Hope Florida. Hope Florida then passed on the 10 million dollars of political committees and the money was ultimately supported to support the campaign against the change that Marijuana in Florida would have legalized.

Andrade, chairman of the subcommittee for the household budget of the House Health Care, stopped hearing to examine the problem, and he had found evidence that the Attorney General of Florida had instructed the money on Florida's hope when he was Desantis' Stabschef.

Andrade said he believed that the transmission of $ 10 million was illegal and handed over all of his documents that his committee received to state and federal prosecutors. On May 20, Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald reported that Leon County's public prosecutor could not provide the documents because they were part of an open examination.

Andrade reacts to Desantis

Andrade reacted on May 21 to Desantis with a contribution to X, the social media website, which was previously known as Twitter.

“I would like to publicly apologize at @govrondesantis to violate his feelings by handing over the prosecution to evidence of criminal activities … my heart is bleeding for her governor …” wrote Andrade.

Andrade wiped the personal attacks from Desantis when he was asked by the news journal.

“I think it is inappropriate to complain about a criminal investigation,” said Andrade. “I discovered evidence of money laundering and wire fraud, handed it over to the law enforcement authorities. And he is crazy that it is important to me to protect tax money?”

Andrade said he didn't believe that most people in Pensacola pay attention to the press conferences of Desantis, but the voters he heard about gave him positive feedback.

“The only thing I got from the voters is encouragement, what happened to the means to get to the bottom,” said Andrade. “As far as Desantis goes off the rails, most people don't really pay attention to.”

Regardless of the ultimate result of the Hope Florida examination, Andrade said that he is planning to insert laws next year that make it a complete crime of controlling money in a state settlement of state funds, as happened with Hope Florida. He would also like to investigate which type of political activities can resemble the Governeurs' Office employees, similar to the restrictions for employees at the federal level.

“This would not have happened if Desantis did not operate his chief of staff through his presidential campaign and these campaigns would then carry out changes from the governor's office,” said Andrade. “You could, personally and public service.”

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