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.
Meatball is not smart enough to be the one making all these changes.
He is given the same credit Osama gets for being the string puller which they both are not smart to speak without a teleprompter let alone complex maneuvering.
It’s true. He’s not as involved with these decisions as might be apparent. He’s being remote controlled. Barry is equally as stupid. They all are.
We need to be looking behind them.
We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful, wonderful wizard.
Whoa somebody hijacked my avatar.
Or else I just accidentally put a “z” in my moniker. Egg on my face.
🤣🤣🤣
That is such a funny show.
It’s a multiple intense.
I wouldn’t classify anyone on the meatball’s team as smart, regardless of who’s calling the shots.
Meatball has become nothing more than a meathead! Another sock puppet!
3 more months and he will be forced to walk away as his high roller donors abandon him.
“Home for Christmas”
Close to DismalLand… isn’t there a “roller” coaster there?
DeSanctus is a fraud who betrayed the American people for a chance at wielding power within its corrupt institutions. That said, it cracks me up how his team keeps talking about his ability to make comebacks while pretending it wasn’t Trump that engineered those comebacks for him:
“People have written Governor DeSantis’s obituary many times,” Uthmeier said in a statement to The Messenger. “From his race against establishment primary candidate Adam Putnam, to his victory over legacy media-favored candidate Andrew Gillum [in 2018], to his twenty point win over Charlie Crist [in 2022], Governor DeSantis has proven that he knows how to win. He’s breaking records on fundraising and has a supporting super PAC with $100 million in the bank and an incredible ground game. Get ready.”
Ha ha. Ron! the Powerhouse!
Mickey the mouse is more of a man than Rob.
It’s Rod!
Runt.
Gee, I thought his campaign had set a new record “burn rate”, he was begging for $’s in Utah, and fired half his campaign staff, cause he couldn’t afford to pay them,..oh, but he has $100 million available,…yeah right.
PDJT has very effectively neutralised that whole “raise enough campaign $ war chest to push everyone else out” because he has millions of devoted “small donors” that, unlike RDS’s big donors, are no where NEAR “maxxing out” and can shower his campaign with $, thruout the election.
3 more months and he will be finished.
He’ll be finished in Florida too. The homeowners’ insurance – or lack thereof – is leaving him hatred by Dems & R’s alike.
Too long! He’s witing for Trumps conviction! If he thinks Trump supporters will come to his rescue after Trump is convicted, he has another lesson to learn!!! Some will, but not enough to win! Unless that’s what he wants! He’s another Romney and McCain!
the amount of money required to run is insane.
i’m thinking its another favor payoff operation – that shuffles money around. purchasing this or that at an inflated price.
I think that happened LAST WEEK.
The string pullers and big donors are furious. The plant has been exposed.
Wow, those are some really strong points lol 😆. (Barely) beat Gillam. Jimmy forgot to mention what the outcome would have been without PDJT’s support!
Bought and Paid For. The last thing Americans need is another empty suit to read Teleprompters.
He and Casey are on an extended vacation using OPM. Could be the stalking horse for Newsome.
Get ready to fail!
Ron, ungrateful and disloyal … to all.
and in 2022, he figured out how to use those Dominion machines in his favor
Maybe he will turn this campaign around if he could borrow a tank and a tankers helmet and drive it around in a Ukraine in a photo op
To me, he already did that with his amateurish Top Gov ad…
“What we REALLY need, is for the DOJ to INDICT our guy,…look what its doing for Trump!” lol.
Sundance, you crack me up!!! “…cloudy with a chance of meatballs”!!!!!
The Meatball and the proverbial fork are about to collide.
The fork may be Gruesome Newsome. This man/child needs his butt kicked back to Florida, oh wait we don’t want him back.
Anybody that started the race off just a little bit ahead only to crash and burn into the low teens has absolutely no chance of winning the nomination. This man is squandering money that could be used in GOTV and ballot harvesting in states where that is the case. Please go away, Ron.
technically, i suppose.. but the PLEASE CLAPPites who are funding his run will definitely not plink their own money down to help that effort if it means the vote is for Trump.
Virtually all the establishment candidates are making the same stupid mistake. If, instead of stabbing the GOAT in the back they had supported PDJT they would be positioned to take over if something happens. In the worst case scenario they are dreaming if they think the base will roll over for them. I’m not sure at this point which establishment party I detest the least.
Republicans don’t want to win! They want to continue with Biden’s agenda!
Desisterous is nothing more than another in a long line of squishy Florida governors…Jeb Bush, Charlie Criss, Rick Scott, etc. In other words, big fish in little swamp syndrome. Ronnie, might make it to the Iowa caucuses and even NH but it ends there as he gets his lunch stolen form him Trump and maybe other wannabe.
I live in the PNW and would never had a clue about Desantis had it not been for Sundance.
Thank you again for keeping all of us informed.
Def!
Now that DeSanctimonius has so thoroughly disillusioned the FL voter … what are the odds that Charlie Crist … or even that crack-smoking, Democrat ovvvv culller becomes the next Gov? DeSanctimonius has probably put Floridians OFF Republicans for several voting cycles. Does Jen have an answer for THAT?
Jeb… I see my autocorrect can’t even stand to print … “Jeb”
Good one. That cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.
Runt has preweaponized the state government for an autocratic government.
Painting the state blue was likely always a secondary consideration of the cabal behind him.
Looks like they may well have to settle for that as a consolation prize.
I have recently been in light contact with a few persons who have sold their homes here in the NW, and are moving to Florida. Hope they do not end up with regrets.
No. Some other Republican maybe Byron Donalds or Matt Gaetz.We don’t want no stinkin Democrap.
We’ll be here for that fight too.
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He dismisses them but keeps them on the payroll to ensure they don’t TALK.
Possible.
I read here many of that huge third of his people fired in the third iteration of his campaign got hired on by the state government, and, considering he has influencers that were proven to have been fluffing him for years on the state payroll, it’s quite possible those moved to state positions are still campaign operatives at some level.
I’d say a lot of Meatball’s ex-staffers have gone back to their original jobs…ANTIFA, protesters for Act Blue, your garden-variety social justice warrior thugs. 🤣🤣
One poll way back did reveal twenty percent of his numbers wouldn’t vote for him if Biden was running.
So he’s already the beneficiary of a substantial number of Democrat larpers.
This is the best one yet – watch and LOL
I’m in tears!! 😂😂😂
Rachel Maddow translates to Stalin = CLASSIC
TOO FUNNY !
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
“Instead I’m Gary Hart minus the monkey business!” 😉 😉 😉
That was the funniest Mad Hitler video that I have seen to date! I haven’t laughed this much! I’m going to go get a glass of wine and watch it again.
“More Republicans would have watched me on Rachel Maddow.”
“How will I ever justify flying private again?”
“I don’t even own a house.”
“Now I’ll be lucky if I’m invited as a guest on Gutfield.”
“Someone fetch me some pudding.”
This was the best Hitler meme I’ve seen and I think I’ve seen them all.
It has been used several times… it’s the “lines” that ‘make it’, no matter the “who” it references.
OMG!! The best!
Whoever did this meme is old enough to remember Gary Hart’s screwup in the ’84 campaign. Consider me impressed.
Dang…I must be really OLD!
OmG!!!!! The best!
Tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
If DeSantis had any integrity, courage and intelligence he would withdraw from the race and give his 1,000% support to President Trump!
As I see it he’s going to be politically doomed if he doesn’t.
He already is politically doomed. He went from being a shoo in for 2028 to being Jeb Bush 2.0. He had us fooled. He should have said no to the siren’s song sung by his establishment sponsors.
Pride goeth before the fall. Either that or the globalist cabal made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
“globalist cabal made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.” And there you have it.
Make no mistake…
DeFraud’s political future is DEAD!
All I hear in my head right now is Rocky and Hulkster … “ the ultimate male (trump) versus the ultimate meatball”!
Yeah, I hear you and I’m deeply disappointed especially him now saying that Joe is the President.
This Ron! guy is the same person who mocked PDJT because shady election activities were done by “Trump’s administration”. The implication is that the Buck Stops With Trump and that Trump is to blame for all of the negative issues that happened from Jan 2017 to Jan 2021.
Ron! needs to be judged by the same standards that he applies to PDJT. Ron! is the head of his campaign. The Buck Stops With Ron!
Meatball is a terrible CEO. Just look at all of the incompetents, failures, and bad messaging comes out of his campaign. One would think that he would hire better people than the ones working in his administration and campaign.
Ron! needs to admit that fact that if he cannot handle his campaign team then he certainly cannot handle the filth, corruption, and backstabbing in Washington DC.
They aren’t making the only personelle change that could possibly make any difference, at the VERY top; the Candidate.
They are surely contemplating which ship to sink next . . .
No matter how many times they rearranged the chairs on the Titanic, it still sank.
Burnt toast is still burnt toast.
And a turd is still a turd, no matter how much you sugar coat it.
….or polish it.
I once thought that DeSantis had the political experience to understand that he was simply “being played.” That he was simply “the diversion.”
He lacks social awareness.
Look at him letting his staff stick him behind a bar and an ice cream counter.
The flurry of legislation is easy to do with a GOP supermajority in the legislature. How’s his sneering, condescending lack of persuasion going to play to Congress in DC? Already a major risk the Dems will get back in after the recent SCOTUS decisions mandating race-based redistricting in different Southern states.
You’ve got to be aware of the future implications of things if you intend to lead and he’s been terrible at it.
Removing the campaign manager doesn’t solve the primary issue — trying to sell DeSantis as something other than a truly crappy candidate.
This man is just too stupid for words. Can you imagine the mincemeat that the likes of Putin, Xi or even NK’s Kim would make of RDS? Just the thought of it is frightening.
I have be frightened by Biden, how about you?
If Carvell was a repub
He would say
“Its not the campaign its the candidate stupid”
RDS is ‘relaunching’ as Jeb! 2.0. – Yawnnnn! It’s over. Ken Griffin should stick to South FL real estate.
At this point what difference does it make?
The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make? (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Heaven knows Ron’s miserable now …
Come on SD … you have to admit this fits the topic perfectly !?
New puppeteer to pull the DeSatan strings where the oligarch directors tell them.
Got it.
Ron!,in my opinion, has roasted his future political career. This dolly he is heading will severely hurt him when he has lost and has to come back to his day job.
I’ve heard this but find it very strange. I have heard he doesn’t own a house. Very odd if true.
The RDS campaign is losing power / momentum and sinking very quickly. The recent moves in campaign management reflect desperation. This is similar to a submarine sinking, lack of oxygen is a concern but sinking beyond crush depth is the true threat.
When RDS implodes it will be ugly for him and his family.
DeSantis supported by the U.S. Chamber of Chinese Commerce/Kill American Manufacturing Cartel?
Say no more.
“We are a species that equates larger size with maturity, leadership and sex appeal,” wrote Jay Mathews in the Washington Post 1999.
Casey took note, hence the rancher boots with lifts. She’s been in the planning stages from the start.
“DeSantis’ wife, Casey, bears responsibility for the cowboy boots , which she recommended as part of a broader glow-up after he won a seat in Congress. “She bought him these dumbass cowboy boots,” a former staffer told Sherman, “because she thought it was part of the image.”
Imagine that conversation, “honey you’re too short.”
You have to wonder if he was picked by the Bushes / Yalies early on – rereading his Wiki page – While at last year of active duty legal military service in 2008, he was appointed by Bush AG Mulkashky to a plum Florida quasi political assignment in AGs office there – then out in 2009/10 and off and running almost immediately for that House seat …just makes you wonder ….or not…
He did serve at GITMO. He’s a sleeper cell.
I saw a picture of him wearing the cowboy boots and there were run over to the sides. Don’t know how to describe it. Hope you get the picture. Not a good look and they didn’t look too clean. He always looks like a wrinkled mess.
Gotta get my eyes checked. The red font was hard to read – initially thought it was Seth Meyers – as in the (so called) comic and thought who more appropriate to run that campaign but an unfunny comedian.
Ron, Give it up.
Little d
The FEC has notified the DeSantis campaign that it improperly designated $2.6 million as primary funds.
The campaign had reported having $9.2 million at the beginning of July when they actually only had about $6.6 million. Ron is about out of money.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/08/report-desantis-fundraising-figures-for-primary-season-millions-off-after-campaign-mistake/
I read where some of his top campaign donors who had already maxed out…approx 3 million could only be used in a general election.
That was a few days after his quarterly campaign filings were made public.
Glad to see this update.
Also: Campaign Legal Center filed an ETHICS complaint with the FEC on May 30 against DeFraud and his Never Back Down super PAC. It has to do with that 82+ Million transfer of leftover gubernatorial campaign money into the PAC.
Be nice to those you meet on the way up Meatball because you will meet them on the way down. You’ll be passing a sh*tload of those.
He will crash and burn and cry like a baby about what he’s done to Florida and his career. I think he knows even now that what he’s doing is wrong. There are others who know the same and will meet the same fate.
Hey Sundance.
That David Polyansky dude that is moving to DeFraud’s campaign from the Never Back Down super PAC… wasn’t he the campaign manager or some type of influential big wig in Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential run?
I firmly believe the 2nd-3rd-4th tier of the GOPe was recently given the go-ahead to begin moving away from DisHonest and over to Deswampy.
My rural Minnesota GOPe mayor (pop 1400) was HUGE for RDS…it was his FB profile, he had the bumper sticker, etc.
Well, sometime in August this “always campaigning for something” mayor went over to Vivek….FB profile, bumper sticker, etc.
We may be a small town, but he’s connected inside both parties…and he’s a Uniparty fraud just like everyone not named Trump.
My mayor sucks like yours.
They are plentiful
He needs to just end this madness and go back to take care of Florida. If he does that, there is still and outside chance he can still have a political future. If he stays on this path, he’s done for good. Frankly, I will never vote for him anyway because I know he’s a fraud. Some people will, if he does the right thing though.
If DeSantis was competitive I could understand the constant preoccupation with him. Given how poorly he’s doing it seems like somewhat of a waste of time to continue with the focus on him. I appreciated the insights into just how phony he is as a person and as a candidate, but we are way past knowing all that by now.
In politics no, things can turn on a dime, plus people have short memories. Let him fight back like Trump does every single day 24/7.
There’s been no let up on him.
There may be people reading this for the first time.
I notice in your out-in graphic, DeSantis is still in. That’s really the problem.
And here I was thinking Andrew ‘ down low ‘ Gilliam had some character flaws that disqualified him from serving .
What these friggin’ Republican’s don’t seem to get is that milquetoast Walter Mitty ‘reasonable dialogue’ isn’t going to do it against screaming zealots who spew constant three-to-five word slogans.
When Trump was saying ‘show them how to win’ it’s BE grandiose and dramatic right back. These people are openly hate-baiting based on deliberately created stereotypes – call them out for it as the fascists they are.
Not fair to Walter, since he captured the Boot and his gang and saved and married Virginia Mayo at the end of the movie. Meanwhile the chicken sh*t RINOS do not accomplish one damn thing, ever!
I really enjoyed the “Secret Lives”… was right there with Walter… good stuff… thanks for the reminders, 00 & Joel.
Don Glazer and the Do-Re-Me Childrens Chorus had a hit record when I was in grade school “On Top Of Spaghetti” that could be jiggled around to be an anthem for DeSantis’ failing campaign. Give it a listen and try your skill to fit it to his weakness as a candidate.
“On Top of Spaghetti” was on the first vinyl album I ever owned. I remember taking it to first grade for show and tell.
“…and then my poor meatball was nothing but mush.”
I think the song came out in 1959. Not exactly sure, but it was a long time ago. Do you still use BURMA SHAVE? I use BARBASOL, much better than Gillette Foamy. I never used BURMA SHAVE.
Do they even make Burma Shave anymore? I’ve always been partial to the Tom Waits song of the same name, and the slang of “headed to Burma Shave” meaning I’m headed out of town (where one would see Burma Shave signs).
I have been to two Tom Waits’ shows but he is not my cup of tea as performers go. Everybody has different favorites when it comes to music.
Can anyone connect the dots to Carl Rove, Ryan or Bush?
My concern is how will the implosion of DeSantis campaign affect the conservative brand, if you will, in the state of Florida. This state is getting bigger and more important, electorally every year. Republicans can’t afford to lose it.
As Sundance has pointed out, it is a microcosm of the United States and so, it gives us insight into so many events and ideas that are shaping this country. Sometimes, this is harder to see when we just look at the country as a whole.
My hope is that good republicans in the legislature and elsewhere start to sideline DeSantis and his crew and start vetting who will be the next governor of Florida. As the SS DeSantis slips beneath the waves, Republicans have to start looking forward to who will be the next governor of Florida.
MAGA will accurately portray his reign as anti-MAGA, and there are a couple of good guys around for PDJT to tap on the shoulder when the time comes.
We needn’t fight that fight yet, simply be aware and prepared for the Left to exploit the Meatball Crater in 2026.
I loved that video you posted on RDS. The Hitler one with subtitles, you should post it on here. It really does reflect the desperation which is attacking the RDS campaign today.
Sundance, you saw the whole shadow campaign of RDS from before the beginning. Really quite astounding. I think the first time I paid attention was when you talked about the silence from RDS with the raid on Aug. 8th.
Too bad he isn’t running his state. He’s too busy losing primary voters.
So true! Thank you Sundance for opening my eyes to DeSantis! I couldn’t understand why DeSantis was silent or didn’t help Trump! I didn’t want to to believe you last year, but I did after reading your articles!
Republicans don’t help each other! They don’t seem to understand that when one Republican is in power they can help each other, but the rino’s only want rino’s!
Of course a marketing refresh will solve everything for them! New and improved stinky feet, now with chocolate sauce and a cherry on top.
Just give it up Ron, we don’t like you.
Peck and Youthmaster look like a couple of toddlers.