PLEASE Do not miss the anniversary timing. NOTHING is accidental. EVERYTHING is connected. Today is the anniversary of the August 8th FBI raid in Mar-a-Lago; the event that was preplanned to kick off the 2024 DC national removal effort, which was timed with the DeSantis national launch. The remainder of this year’s GOPe forecast is cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to ignore his stewardship of the office he was entrusted to hold, as he fires his campaign manager and pulls his Florida chief of staff into the role.
Despite donor assurances just a week ago, campaign Manager Generra Peck has been removed from her position and replaced with James Uthmeier who serves as DeSantis’ chief of staff in the abandoned and collapsing state of Florida. Peck will remain with the campaign as a strategist and Uthmeier will take a leave of absence from his role in Tallahassee to take over the position of campaign manager.
While James Uthmeier has zero campaign political experience, he is a lawyer with specific economic and legal skills related to his former job at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce where he served as legal counsel. Given the nature of the reason for the Wall Street Sea Island group to support the 2024 DeSantis operation, having a multinational advocate in the role of campaign manager oddly does make sense. There are trillions at stake.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ron DeSantis has replaced his campaign manager Generra Peck, in what is the third major reshuffling of his operations, a campaign spokesperson and a person familiar with the move confirmed to POLITICO.
Peck will be shifted to a role of chief strategist as part of the new order. Taking her place atop the campaign will be James Uthmeier, who has served as chief of staff in DeSantis’ governor’s office. In a text message, Uthmeier said the change was happening “ASAP.”
[…] One person close to the campaign, who was granted anonymity to freely discuss the issue, said that Peck’s removal, which was first reported by The Messenger, was “no surprise. Should have happened a few weeks ago.”
DeSantis’ campaign spokesperson, Andrew Romeo, also confirmed the staff moves in a statement, saying that “Uthmeier has been one of Governor DeSantis’ top advisors for years and he is needed where it matters most: working hand in hand with Generra Peck and the rest of the team to put the governor in the best possible position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden.”
He added that David Polyansky, who worked with Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting DeSantis, will also move to the campaign.
[…] The person also described Uthmeier’s role as “CEO” of the campaign but who will rely on Polyansky — and Marc Reichelderfer, a veteran political consultant from Tallahassee — as “senior vice presidents” with national campaign experience. Ryan Tyson, a well-regarded pollster, is also expected to have an elevated role in the campaign.
[…] Uthmeier is taking an unpaid leave of absence from the administration to work on the campaign and is not resigning permanently from his job as chief of staff, according to the governor’s office. Alex Kelly, a former top deputy to DeSantis who was recently appointed to be the secretary of the Department of Commerce, will step in as acting chief of staff while Uthmeier works with the campaign, which operates out of an office building in Tallahassee. (read more)
I told readers in August of last year, almost exactly a year ago today, this message.
Very few people at the time wanted to believe it.
We are here because we discuss uncomfortable truths. We accept things as they are, and not as we would wish them to be.
Since the original innocuous tweet 48 hours ago, from a private account, which did not even use the name “Trump,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been absolutely silent about the illicit FBI raid on the home of Florida citizen and former President Donald J Trump. DeSantis is showing us all who he really is; but are you willing to accept it?
The raid on President Trump’s home is a moment for all to stand and take a position. On the day after the raid, much like the entire DC Decepticon establishment, Ron DeSantis hid in the bunker and kept quiet. No tweets. No appearances. Nothing that would create a situation where he would have to enter this ‘time of choosing.’ This is what politicians do. This is what Nikki Haley does. Avoiding controversy is not what war time leaders do.
On the second day after the raid, again with the politics of the issue as the dominating consideration, DeSantis releases a recording of a statement as Florida schools begin to open for the fall semester. Again, avoiding any situation where he would be asked to take a position on the raid. Please take note and pay attention. These are the moments that matter, the examples that show the true intents and motives of political leaders.
DeSantis is doing what he has been advised to do.
The silence of DeSantis is deafening.
DeSantis’ supporters, cheerleaders, GOPe promoters and sycophants will ignore it, but deep in their psyche they know what I am saying is true.
Ron DeSantis is a good governor for the state of Florida and has many attributes that make him important for a host of reasons, but this is not a war-time general. Ron DeSantis is a politician.
Accept things as they are, not as you would wish them to be. Because this is the same man that many people would select to face the greatest enemy to our republic. DeSantis is showing us right now that he does not possess the courage, desire in scale, or ability to fight the enemy we face in this battle.
DeSantis is a good finisher, a good maintainer, a good and solid ally who operates well when surrounded by the fortune of an aligned legislative body; but he is not yet the weapon that can stop the corrupt UniParty enemy within our republic.
There are moments that show the character of the politicians in the club apparatus. The pathetic and embarrassing Ted Cruz speech at the 2016 RNC nominating convention was one of those moments. The response, or lack thereof, to an illegitimate FBI raid on the personal home of the leader of the republican party is yet another.
Accept things as they are, you will be far less disappointed later on.
There Are Trillions at Stake!👀
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
Machiavelli
The old Ron is gone …
This “The New Ron” is controlled by donors/handlers/polls ….. this Ron has become their puppet….
The new Ron is not ready for WH because he has become donors’ Manchurian candidate … not people’s candidate.
As he always was.
He’s been groomed for a very long time.
Lol- Ron gets his turn in the Hitler video meme:
Sublime that Rachel Maddow is “Stalin”
HILARIOUS!! Love it!
Those “Hitler Rants” videos are HYSTERICAL !!!!
Reminds one of Lonesome Rhodes played by Andy Griffith, in “A Face in the Crowd.”
He’s also run on his supposed opposition to covid mandates, masks, lockdowns. However, in the beginning he was all for them.
He’s never said like many, “Hey, I was wrong, I truly thought…but because [on such and such date because of such and such data] my position completely changed.
This pose looks strikingly similar to the one of Obama with his chin stuck up in the air.
IMHO Peck is an idiot, and Uthmeier probably is, but he is GOPe of GOPe; nothing says GOPe like “U.S. Chamber of Commerce”. Sorry Ron, if that is all you can get maybe you better go back to Florida.
This has to be one of the worst run campaigns by a Governor for the GOP nomination in a long time, well since Gov. John Connally. Come to think of it worst. I am not counting the ones who are in it for just attention or selling a book deal.
Not saying age is the only factor but these are thirty somethings(?) that if you asked them how to change the oil in their automobile (assuming they don’t have an ev) you would get that deer in the headlights look, guarantee. Clueless.
Chairs, Titanic, get busy Ron.
I read he pulled in someone from Scott Walker’s presidential campaign. Like calling in Chuck Wepner to train for a Mike Tyson fight!!
I get the “abandoned” reference with DeSantis off cavorting on the campaign quest. What about Florida is “collapsing” – can anyone from there enlighten? Is your state, in fact, collapsing?
FL has serious issues with insurance markets in FL. Meatball should be spending time fixing this issue, not running for President.
RDS’s voting record as a CONgress Critter is a disqualifier on its own.
Silence in the face of the raid on MaL put the fork in his political corpse.
Bye MoRon.
“Silence in the face of the raid on MaL put the fork in his political corpse.” That was it for me, also. Coward, or Bought, he cannot excuse his way past that. As an aside… he isn’t the only one.
He’s not the only one but he is the only lawyer/guvnah that 1) had to know in advance that the raid was coming, did nothing & 2) said nothing afterwards.
He’s the lowest of the group of lowlifes.
Personally, I wouldn’t have wasted a vote on him after he voted for TPP-TPPA under Obumbler’s reign.
Ah, so do Rove and Bush remain?