Bob Vander Plaats, an evangelical leader in Iowa, has admitted to being paid 95K by the DeSantis campaign prior to his endorsement. What a waste of money – considering this guy was happy to be a Never Trumper for free.
(Reuters) – The DeSantis campaign, a super PAC linked to him and a nonprofit group supporting him together paid $95,000 in recent months to the Family Leader Foundation, an Iowa-based nonprofit led by evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, according to campaign finance reports and a document prepared by an Iowa state lawmaker who was helping the Vander Plaats organization raise money for a July 14 presidential candidate forum.
The document and the amount spent by DeSantis and his allies are previously unreported.
For that money, DeSantis and supporting groups got three pages of advertisements in a booklet distributed at the July forum attended by 2,000 Christian conservatives, and tickets to the summit, lunch and an after-dinner event.
But the real value may be more in building a relationship with Vander Plaats, whose endorsement is coveted in the early-voting state, said three campaign finance experts and an academic who studies Iowa campaign spending.”
BREAKING: Iowa evangelical leader admits he was paid by the DeSantis Team prior to his endorsement pic.twitter.com/EoVmMPLe1y
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 21, 2023
Desantis could have helped unite the Republican Party by endorsing President Trump for 2024. Instead, he chose to run against him and divide our country further in an act of sheer desperation. Please clap…
Check out the pedo symbolism on the “Christian” web site.
The Family Leader Foundation website?
Anyone who puts Nikki Haley that high up is as insane as she is.
Also memo to pollster: Tim Scott exited.
The poll is from last month – October 22-26, it says.
And endorsed Trump on the way out!
I would not put much stock in this with a sample size of just 404. Likely 2024 Republican caucusgoers? Light on the rest of demographic data.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
If anything this is understating Trump’s lead.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2023/11/22/kim-reynolds-bob-vander-plaats-endorse-ron-desantis-over-donald-trump-for-president-will-it-matter/71505261007/
lol, “Round Down-Santis”
“Desantis could have helped unite the Republican Party by endorsing President Trump for 2024. Instead, he chose to run against him and divide our country further in an act of sheer desperation. Please clap…”
He could have been the successor to Trump and created a legacy for himself few men can dream of.
Now he’s a cautionary tale–or worse, a punchline.
Tsk tsk.
Desantis is Dick Cheney in heels
Liz Chaney in platform western boots.
Dick Cheney with bigger tits
Desanctimonious is another thirty pence or in other words, judus.
All of them stood at an inflection point and chose satan.
It’s a good thing DeSantis exposed his Grifter roots and spared us (hopefully) a future presidency….. But if Trump doesn’t regain the WH in 2025 then it probably won’t matter much anymore. Even with Trump in the WH it’s going to be a very rough rocky row to hoe.
i got a hoe, I’ll help
I’ll be with you in the next row.
Dynamite for stumps
<i got a hoe, I’ll help>
I got a hoe…Bob Vander Plaats 🙂
And Ron DeSantis. Hahaha 😝
If the Deep State were smart (I have my doubts) they would let the presidential election play out without interference and it appears Trump would most likely win.
Their ace in the hold should be maintaining communist or neocon control of the senate. Then President Trump could get nothing done. He could fire a bunch of people but wouldn’t be able to get any confirmations. They would just have to ride it out for four years. Big deal. We don’t have a bench. The party starts again in 2028.
I don’t think they are smart enough to let it play out, though.
..hole, not hold..
Thanks comrade
Did he (expose his grifter roots)? Or did Sundance pull back that curtain for us? For me, I must admit the latter; I did not see DeSantis’ deception until he went silent after the Wray’s jackbooted thugs stormed Mar-A-Lago, but then later he issued a conspicuously weak statement that lacked any support for PDJT.
he’s dirt
My awakening was seeing Jeb Bush seated at his Swearing in of Governor Ceremony.
Ok. I didn’t watch that since I’m not a Florida resident. Of course I don’t watch any state’s Governor swearing in events. Not even my own since they’re all corrupt. 😒
Well said.
DeSantis was never on board with MAGA and he certainly was not looking to take on the GOPe. He is part of the GOPe. His presidential campaign is all the proof we need.
Ron is probably a man torn by two competing forces w/in himself: the working class kid who got to go to Yale on a baseball scholarship and the guy he made himself into, the Yalie who sides with the Elite, even when he understand they are using him.
DeSantis isn’t one of them and he knows it!
Thank you for expressing that. Maybe it will help dispel the wailing “WHYYY?!?!!” that keeps trying to escape my mouth every time I read about him.
Maybe in this case it is just as simple as a small man’s ego.
He had a choice. To be or to do as John Boyd put it.
He chose poorly.
He never would have been the successor.
I don’t understand why people, especially here, keep saying this.
If anything we know that Neocon Ron is in fact a neocon. Maybe that would have been masked, probably not.
We know DeSantis is not very smart. He would not have been able to hide that. He freaking said he would wear a boot on his head. Stupid stuff like that wouldn’t have been any different.
We know he’s probably on the spectrum and as a result is really, really bad at retail politics. This would have become apparent immediately four years from now.
Jill would have been even more odious four years from now if she was super duper sure she had a decent chance.
No, Ron is lucky to be in the place he is in. Everything he’s done down in Florida has been a mirage. Red Meat for the Listless Vessels. Unfortunately for him he wasn’t good enough at pretending once he got out of the state.
I have a home in Florida and one in Illinois. Do I prefer DeSantis to Jabba Pritzker? Of course. But the skill set he has as governor is not transferable to the national stage. Plus, let’s not forget he has a red legislature and Florida has been governed by Republicans longer, uninterrupted, than any state in the Union. They haven’t elected a communist governor since DeSantis was in high school and the legislature has been red longer.
https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Florida_state_government
He fooled a lot of people with the mini-Trump charade. The mask was always bound to come off. It was only a matter of when.
Donald Trump Jr. with wife Kimberly Guilfoyle would be my choice for the hand off and would likely be the winners (if our voting system actually worked properly.)
They would mop the floor with the irritating Florida fakes.
They got married? I missed that.
I’m talking in the future. Last I heard, they are engaged and still planning a marriage. I’m assuming it will happen by then.
Eric and Laura are the superior choice in this contest.
I can’t imagine the thinking behind picking up a Gavin Newsome discard.
I don’t think they want the job.
<Donald Trump Jr. with wife Kimberly Guilfoyle would be my choice for the hand off and would likely be the winners>
It would certainly make for an interesting campaign if he ran against Newsom 🙂
Wife Kimberly Guilfoyle?
Men have choices. He was perfectly positioned to grab the brass ring.
I don’t think you understand … He wasn’t perfectly positioned because 1) too stupid, 2) too awkward, and 3) his spouse.
These would have been exposed in 2028 if they weren’t exposed in 2024.
He is not finished simply because he decided to commit political suicide this election. He never had a chance.
I don’t think YOU understand.
The man turned his back on whatever beliefs he may have had due to greed and hubris. He allowed the system to corrupt him.
Lots of awkward dudes become Presidents. His awkwardness is a byproduct of insincerity. Trump can be awkward, too, but we overlook it because he speaks with conviction.
DeSantis had the world at his feet and a very real chance to learn from the master of MAGA. He chose a different path to his detriment.
The first name that comes to my mind when thinking awkward man that became President: James Madison. Of course, Jill Casey DeSantis is not even near the same league that Dolly Madison was.
Have you been paying attention to CTH the last 18 months?
It was all pretend! He never had these pretend beliefs. You’ve been had.
Look at his resume. It has Deep State operative written all over it. He was never, not one time in his life, MAGA or even Tea Party.
Chris Christie was a CONmunist Governor, just because he had a (R) aftr his name when hecran, means NOTHING.
And your legislature isn’t MAGA, its RINO, at least at the Leadership level, which is where it counts.
Fla. is PAINTED Red, because it suits THEM to color it that way.
We are a conservative state. You’re playing semantics. This is not like when Massachusetts used to elect R governors. You are smart enough to know there is a difference between NJ and Florida.
Ok if Florida is not the most red state in the Union what would be the most red state in the Union?
RINO or not it’s the reddest state in the Union.
What would be a MAGA state? I don’t see one. Florida is the closest.
He probably has a room reserved at Gitmo.
Ron’s autism would “do him in” whenever he would choose to run.
We know that now because he’s running now.
Should he have waited til 2028, we’d know he’d be toast in 2027/2028.
We didn’t have to kick the can down the road — a benefit I guess.
Had he been satisfied with Veep this time around his star would have risen. He blew it by listening to his handlers.
He never would have been VP when PDJT is from Florida.
DeSantis paid money for an endorsement and received an endorsement. I heard Plaatz deny that DeSantis bought his endorsement. It’s like talking to a democrat. Yes, Ron bought an endorsement.
And THIS sleazy crap on the part of evangelical “leader” is why I don’t do “church”. It leaves a foul taste in my mouth.
I wonder what he’ll say to God when he stands before Him on judgment day.
Just disgusting.
Same here! Every time I meet up with someone who starts right out of the gate with asking where I go to church and if I’m saved … I’ve encountered a con artist or the mentally ill. Every time!
…when two or more come together in my name…
You shouldn’t judge all churches by the bad ones. At the same time, this guy deserves to lose his congregation, and should.
Haha that picture posted at the top of the article!😆what a loser!
He should have spent that money on a facelift. He needs one.
That has me laughing. Naked grifting … This should only be legal if wearing clown outfits.
“Sir, we’re arresting you on charges of grifting while naked. You’ll be debriefed, given a cover story. Leave the rest up to us.”
“Can I keep these boots?”
How can he be “naked” if he has to be “debriefed”?
Idiot.
However his money is wasted
De Sanctimonious wont win
“A fool and his money are soon parted”
It’s not Ron’s money. Some fool trusted him with it, to put it to good use.
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enjoyable
we try
Good to see you are still around Gip!
Agreed!
To quote the great Humphrey Bogart “we all try, you succeed “!
Thanks Gipper, I needed that!
Gipper! I am entertained! Bravo! A tour de force worthy of hundreds of up-votes.
I just love it when we talk steering wheels.
“…paying them in Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.”
Absolutely the best pay ever.
“If I pay you $100,000 will you tell people you like me? Please? Pretty please? I’mma leader, dontchaknow. Tell ’em I don’t wear lifts in my shoes, too!”
Rodney DeSantis!
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, “Wait til it gets warmer.”
My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
I met the surgeon general. He offered me a cigarette.
Last week I told my psychiatrist, “I keep thinking about suicide.” He told me from now on I have to pay in advance.
I tell you, with my doctor, I don’t get no respect. I told him, “I’ve swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills.” He told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous: everyone hasn’t met me yet.”…….
They’ve met you, Ron.
Thanks for the laughs!
X -cellent
“I told my Dr I wanted to stop aging; he gave me a gun”.
please..clap?
It is said that every man has his price.
Apparently upon searching his soul Rev Platts came to the conclusion that his price should be a bit more than $95K.
So I guess one could say that Desantis got a bargain.
Reminds me of the old joke that ends with – We have established what you are and are now just haggling about the price.
How does 95K compare with 30 pieces of silver when taking inflation into account?
Sure don’t buy what it used to.
They must have asked 30 pieces of silver Pence what he thought.
Vander Plaats picks another loser. And they called him a “Kingmaker”?
DeSantis has money to throw away.
Who in the world is ,Vander Pants ? Never heard of him. Is he worth 95,000 to endorse Meatball??
Who knew you could buy an evangelical for $95k?
Truly he is in the wrong bz. If he would only get into the importing illegal aliens bz, like all the other “evangelicals” he could be paid by the head on an ongoing basis.
Inflation dontchaknow.
Who says he Isn’t ??? Gotta be a lot of repubRats enabling the democRats. Human trafficking pays very well with side demonic benefits. Is the Poopus the Only Churchophile turned one??? Of course not, 2024 will be a year of Revelations.
America could be so much better without the obscene money bought in by the billionaire donors. Their true interest is only to get on the “inside” so that they too can wheel and deal to become as rich and powerful as The Clintons, The Obama’s, Soros Dynasty, The Bushes, Zuckerberg, etal!
Their greed and craving for power knows no bounds!
Generally, highly public so-called men of God seem to come pretty cheap.
It’s sad really. A man cannot serve two masters.
Hey, he got a high price. According to Pfiser exec, U.S. Senators only cost $10,000.
Not very Christian of him
If Ronnie Highfoot would waste his own money like that, imagine what he’d do with YOURS. =^[.]^=
Ron, Have you tried rebooting your campaign ?
heh
<rimshot>
he’s one of the people Jesus warned us about
the is the kind of person Jesus warned us about
Can we all now admit that Ron DeSantis is and always has been an establishment Republican. There are plenty of self-described conservatives within the GOPe.
He’s a controlled puppet. If he was truly on board with MAGA and against the Republican establishment he would of come out and supported President Trump and wait for 2028. Well, the truth is out there for all to see. DeSantis is a fraud and you can stick a fork in him for any future presidential runs!
Oh but they LOVE him at The Blaze because “Trump’s ego”, or something.
Glenn Beck must have some Cheetos dust left in his brain. All of the conservative radio hosts are still plugging DeSantis as a conservative icon, but the rank and file know better. DeSantis is an establishment puppet.
The fact that DeSantis is still in the race, when the overwhelming number of Republican voters supports Trump, shows the man’s true colors. Even if he wanted to get out of the race he can’t because he is controlled by the GOPe. Any so called conservative who still refuses to acknowledge this is a damn fool!
Everything to do with elections, donations and advocacies .. all sections more secular than anything to do with pasture care
https://www.thefamilyleader.com/post/re-watch-top-10-moments-from-thanksgiving-family-forum
Couldn’t pay me to watch this.
Paying the “preacher”
I did see a clip on another site where Vivek Ramaswamy talked about his wife losing their first child to a miscarriage. It was very moving. But other than that I did not watch a second of this forum.
I missed that. But I find it interesting because DeSantis told the exact same story about his wife recently, losing their first baby to miscarriage.
hate to be so jaded, but I wondered if the story came up at this time to get the sympathy vote.
Quite possible their researchers have told them that by telling that story, they will get 100% of the votes, of couples who have had miscarriages, and its probably true.
Its as rediculous as a person of a race thinking a candidate of that race will represent them, or women thinking a woman will.
Rediculous, but it IS an aspect of ‘human nature’.
Well they lied. I too lost my first baby to miscarriage but I wouldn’t vote for either of them.
” I Dont Need You To Get Me Elected ”
— Ron DeSanctis
I’m wondering how many pastors or ministries received money from the government or private entities to push the COVID vax.
You probably don’t want to know.
what a snake,
I don’t trust the caucus method anymore than a Georgia or Arizona election!
I’ve participated in both over the past decades.
Right; don’t trust either method.
Where there is a will for fraud, there is always a way for fraud.
.
And with Trillion$ at stake, there will aleays be people that will try to game the system of elections.
Isn’t that the Nathan Hale quote. Didn’t think so.
(posted elsewhere)
Sir Napsalot
7 hours ago
Everything is above board, and the near $100k ‘donation’ didn’t influence his endorsement decision?
Aside from the amount of skepticism this will generate, “the look” simply is not good. For DeSantis, AND this evangelical leader.
“…Vander Plaats, whose endorsement is coveted in the early-voting state..”
I certainly hope and pray that those who once took counsel from Mr. Vander Plaats realize his word is nothing more than that of a bought and paid for whore.
Let’s hope for a silver lining.
Clean up your house Iowa evangelicals!
DeSantis is dead to me. He was a good governor because he had to be in order to fool us. I’m glad I voted for him when his motives benefited me……..those days are over.
Well who-duh thunk it?!
The “evangelic leader” is also a bought and paid for whore!
Which would make Ron the John,…except Ron was paying the evangelical whore, with somebody elses $.
If your preacher openly admits to selling out to politicians and says he regrets not asking for even more money, then why are you even still following him? He cares more about filling his bank account than he does about the needs of his congregation. How do men like this even become “leaders”? How does this man even still have followers?
no man of God should have “followers”
The only acceptable cult of personality is Jesus
yes. Talk about a deluded “preacher” . . .
A good word for those who paid or will soon pay? Saying whatever the suckers want to hear?
“making positive comments about presidential candidates Ramaswamy, Haley and Scott — and especially DeSantis. On Aug. 6, Vander Plaats said he and his wife attended church with DeSantis and his wife, Casey.
“They’re very easy people to be around. You like being around them,” Vander Plaats said on conservative podcast host Steve Deace’s show on Monday. “If the caucuses were held today, I don’t believe Trump wins. I think it’s probably DeSantis that wins.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-his-backers-paid-95000-iowa-religious-leaders-group-documents-show-2023-08-12/
How much did they pay the Governor for her endorsement?
This $100K was a donation from the DeSantis global war-chest to the defeat Trump movement which will start for real in about 7 months. He has the nomination. These people are preparing to ensure he doesn’t win.
BTW: the word evangelical has been so polluted in the past 30 years, you might as well say pedophile. Anyone stupid enough to vote for someone because their “faith leader” told them to is a fool.
Also anyone who gets an experimental vaxxine at the advise of a “spiritual” leader is also a fool.
Well, that is THEIR INTENT, of course. We knew that.
Intent -vs- Reality are two distinctive phenomena.
“Why Vander, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for whales and their 30 pieces of silver?”
Ron DeStilettos hardest hit …
Ron looking pretty haggard these days.
Hey, it’s tough work walking around on your tippy-toes all day long!
You should try it sometime!!
Not easy.
😂 🤣
I thought candidates were in the business of raising campaign funds, not bribery…?
The two once-distinct (legal vs. illegal) methods of fundraising have since merged….
Makes you wonder how many more are paid for. It’s just gross and something democrats stink of.
I try not to judge people by their language, but yesterday I saw this guy interviewed by Fox. A few sentences into the interview he got a strike one when he said he was enthusiastically endorsing DeS, and he got strike 2 when he said “supposably.”
In my game of political baseball, two strikes are two too many.
Of coarse for all intensive purposes he thinks he can’t loose
First thought as I read this:
DeSantis and his political machine aside. What does this say about the Christian Preacher Vander Plaats?
That’s he’s likely not in The Remnant. This is wheat and tares time, IMO.
who the hades is boob underpants?
My first and only thought of this so called preacher.
John 2:15
“And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;”
DeSantis is a Catholic, and that could have played into charging for the endorsement. I am not justifying the transaction. Look at Vander Platts prior endorsements and they are all Protestants.
I love it!
Those Catholics…always lookin’ for the $$’s…to worship the saints!
This is really good!
johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
We know.
She is the worst kind of traitor.
This broad is soooooooooo done!!!
She climbed aboard a sinking ship.
Chris Jankowski, the chief executive of the super PAC working to elect Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) president, stepped down Wednesday, the latest blow to DeSantis’s hopes for the Republican nomination.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/22/top-desantis-adviser-resigns-super-pac-position-less-than-two-months-before-iowa-caucuses/
“Never Back Down’s main goal and sole focus has been to elect Governor Ron DeSantis as President. Given the current environment it has become untenable for me to deliver on the shared goal and that goes well beyond a difference of strategic opinion.”
Looks like they backed down.
This must be the result of the “almost came to blows” at their last meeting.
Speaking as a Christian who has lived in Iowa for the last decade and a half, never heard of this zero. And what an zero he is.
You know what? I feel like buying a new car. If the Desantis campaign can contact me, I’ll give them an endorsement.
Bob Vander Plaats is
-admittedly
a dirt bag.
EVERYONE has a price.
Whores wear all sorts of collars.