A few weeks ago, former Senator Benn Sasse quit his job as President at University of Florida. The claimed reason given by Sasse was to care for his wife who has epilepsy, but the timing of things now looks very sketchy.
I’m going to outline the details in real time because this is going to become more critical as Ron DeSantis positions his future ambitions for the White House, again in 2028.
CTH noted a few years ago that Ron DeSantis was positioning for 2024 presidency. One of the supportive datapoints was a $20 million donation by the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) to Ron DeSantis {LINK}. At the time of the donation to DeSantis, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts was the RGA chairman.
After the donation was made, Ron DeSantis then used the influence of his office to support Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse for the position of President of University of Florida {LINK}. As noted by Politico: “Sasse’s sherpa through the university search process was Gov. Ron DeSantis’ chief of staff James Uthmeier, who was put in contact with Sasse several months ago after he quietly expressed interest in becoming UF president.“ (link)
After Ben Sasse accepted the position as UF President, former Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts then became Senator {LINK}. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced Thursday that former Gov. Pete Ricketts will fill the Senate seat of Ben Sasse, who officially resigned from Congress this week to return to academia as president of the University of Florida. Ricketts, a Republican, like Pillen and Sasse, will serve two years ahead of a 2024 special Senate election.
The quid-pro-quo was complete. DeSantis took the $20 million from Chairman Ricketts, then opened the path for Ricketts to move to the Senate by using his office to support the movement of Senator Sasse. Despite the activity taking place over 2 years, the sequence of it was transparent to those who paid attention. However, now comes the problem.
Apparently, Ben Sasse knew there was going to be a serious problem with his first-year conduct in office as UF President. Ben Sasse announced he was quitting the job a few weeks ago {LINK}, and now comes the background issue:
WASHINGTON DC – Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has called for an inquiry into former University of Florida President Ben Sasse’s expenses following a report from the school’s student newspaper about spending tripling under his leadership.
Sasse reportedly spent $17.3 million in his first year as president of the university, which was up from the $5.6 million his predecessor, Kent Fuchs, spent in his last year. A majority of the spending came from big contracts with consulting firms and high-salaried remote positions for former staffers of Sasse while he was a senator.
Bryan Griffin, a communications director for DeSantis, said in a statement that discussions with the university and the Florida Board of Governors are underway.
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said the “reports of UF’s exorbitant spending by Ben Sasse’s office are concerning,” and that his agency, the Florida Department of Financial Services, will “offer auditing services” to assist in the inquiry. (read more)
This entire story is so brutally Republican it’s almost laughable.
DeSantis moves from congress to FL Governor in 2018 with intent to run for White House in ’24. Everyone denied it.
DeSantis took $20 million from RGA in 2022 as seed money for his White House run in ’24. Everyone denied it.
DeSantis announced ’24 run, then uses legislature to rewrite rules allowing him to put $20 million into ‘2024 SuperPAC. Everyone denied it.
In the middle of all this, DeSantis shifts Sasse to UF President, RGA head who gave DeSantis $20 million replaces Sasse. Sasse then loots UF, quits and then DeSantis tries to back away from Sasse toward the exits.
After Sasse resigned due to his wife’s epilepsy diagnosis, DeSantis said he wasn’t “involved necessarily” in the selection of Sasse. He made clear that he would not be involved in the selection process for the new president. (more)
But Ron DeSantis is not a professional republican and sketchy, they say… lolol 😂🤣😂
But but but… I thought Sasse was principled! Bona fide even! /s
Sasse always gave me the impression that he was not someone I would trust to be in charge of anything, much less as President of UF. I always thought that there was something fishy about his resigning Senate position mid term(who in their right mind does that???) for an academia post? So this doesn’t surprise me, but RDS now trying to (cover) his position is laughable. His life in national politics has just about had the back cover of his life in politics book closed.
Sasse was the David French of the Senate. Not good. I don’t see the scandal. The university in town has a $5B annual budget, what’s a few million on consultants? There is something else going on. Sasse was probably insisting on keeping all the DEI staff and that is why he is getting pushed out.
DEI is being eradicated in Florida education. It’s not that.
And it’s not a few million. It exploded from $5+B to $17+B in 1 year!!!!!
The article that Sundance quotes says million not billion. Just saying…
Still, 17.3 million compared with 5.6 million by the predecessor is still a big jump. It’s still a LOT of $$ in this economy!
Agree. Also, sounds to me like UF should recruit a new CFO since Patronis was apparently not doing his job.
Ace of Ace of Spades has best nickname for French; David “Vichy” French.
Vichy rhymes with Fishy.
I wonder if the “something else going on” has anything to do with Sasse resigning as a senator (which doesn’t make much sense, seeing’s how senators do LOTS of insider trading and other such under-the-table sh!t and make LOADS OF $$$). Story unfolding, stay tuned…..
Any time you see someone in a real ladder climbing occupation make the sudden resignation “to spend more time with the wife and kids” (or its equivalent) your antenna must go up. To me, the finest example has to be Arthur Goldberg resigning from the SCOTUS to become UN Ambassador. Any lawyer will understand what being on the Supreme Court means. It’s a dream that only nine people get to realize at any one time, and like Justice Ginsburg or Rehnquist – very few give it up easily. But Goldberg was on the court for only ~3 years. I would love to have a recording of the conversation in which LBJ convinced him to step down from an exalted position to become UN Ambassador. It must have been Tony Soprano-esque. Another good example is Rep. William H. Gray, III who resigned from the House abruptly, when he was 3rd in line to be Speaker.
Sasse, like all those who present themselves for higher offices (with only a few notable exceptions), is a political succubus.
The text pasted below is from 2014, back when Sasse was said to be “conservative” and “tea party”. His 2014 talking points helped maintain that facade for a while. I forgot he was not a McConnell pet. Maybe McConnell finally got his revenge via some unseen way? IDK, just speculating. Sasse kept flip-flopping regarding helping PDJT.
Sasse is basically a weak man in over his head. No help to MAGA.
Good riddance.
From The Guardian, 5/14/2014: “For months, Sasse was locked in an increasingly negative race with Osborn, who had the support of the Washington establishment and allies of McConnell. Sasse, the president of Midland University, had the backing of some Tea Party and pro-business groups as well as two of the right’s heroes — ex-Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and senator Ted Cruz of Texas — in his bid to replace Republican Senator Mike Johanns, who is retiring after a single six-year term.
Sasse focused on his conservative credentials, opposition to abortion, support for gun rights and the goal of repealing and replacing Obama’s health care law, which is despised by conservative activists who influence the primary process.
“We were never doing this because we need another job,” Sasse told supporters Tuesday night. “We were only going to do this if we were going to talk about big, bold, conservative ideas.”
Before I posted the above, I had a half written comment on Sasse and his political taqiyya when running for the Nebraska senate seat, his posing as a staunch Tea Party devotee. I cancelled it, preferring to call him exactly what he is. Yes. I remember.
And like you, I say good riddance to a man of no honour and not fit for the position he held and disgraced.
Oh my gosh. What a racket. It was right in front of my face and I didn’t see it. Thanks Sundance for pointing out things that we should all see, but don’t.
They’re all lying thieves! EVERYTHING is a deal that’s usually at the expense of Americans.
…at the expense of normal, TAX-PAYING Americans….the little guy who will never see that kind of income.
The “racket” is MUCH MUCH deeper than this small part. Post below points to how deep it really goes.
I am not familiar with the goings on at the University of Florida. Nevertheless, reading this article, maybe we should call it a RGA Meatball “Ricketts” instead of a racket.
Hopefully, if it all the corruption and conniving blows up in their faces and the real truth is exposed, Ben’S Asse will be in a sling along with Meatball’s who in now doing the old political two step distancing game.
Furthermore the article doesn’t say but did Kent Fuchs the University also before this? Asking for a friend.
Like I said, I don’t know anything about The University of Florida, but it sounds most likely as corrupt a power and money grabbing operation as WVU in West Virginia, the “How low will you go” Joe Manchin, Smelly Moore Capito and other political dregs playground here.
IMO the whole American University system has been turned into a corrupt, DEI, ESG, UN, money grubbing, political grabbing, Uniparty propaganda brainwashing operation for the EU type Fundamental Transformation of America. They are serving the purpose for the globalist NWO plan to destroy liberty, individual freedom and American culture as we have known it.
That 3rd senator with his back to the camera is Tom Cotton, another bought off Uniparty stooge.
Ernst, Rubio, Scott, the Uniparty keeps feeding us these cretins. Glad to see our host is properly destroying the Meatball. One down, 40,000 more to go.
I would agree, constantly playing footsie under a table.
Is Josh over in Mazoo one as well?
Like men who cheat on their spouses. Same scenario.
Yes.
Oui.
Da.
Si.
The sequence in “get Smart”, ‘60’s, was “Ya, Da, Oui, Si”.
Will check that out!
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1960’s comedy show.
Us old folks recall it with fondness.
My favorite: the shoe phone.
MAX
The cone of silence
THE STATE Of OUR AFFAIRS in This Nation…
I think the Non Stooge list would be much smaller and would fit in a tweet character limit.
Outstanding, Kitto!
Can always depend on Trump to lay out the truth, the dirt, on…everyone!
Is it any wonder that they all are terrified and lined up against President Trump.
Cheers, and thank you for the continuing education.
You called it!! I saw the Sasse nonsense as some def rino crap. Meatball will forever be squashed in the sidewalk
They just keep falling out of the trees like leafs in fall.
and like locusts in a swarm!
Or rotten oranges.
Or Iguanas in a cold snap in Florida…
Think the Lord is separating the wheat from the chaff.
“On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor Meatball,
When Sundance sneezed!”
Classic Sir. 😂😂🔥
Thank you!
So now the natural question rises with the GOPe, Bushys playing for the 2028 contest. Assuming Trump gets in, who will take the mantle and a) put the final nail in the Bushys/GOPe and b) keep the USA on the trajectory that maintains our country?
Win or lose, Trump will have a say. If he wins and starts undermining the Uniparty, it could bring about real primaries for once.
IMO, it could be a whooole new ballgame by that time.
They were counting on Trump to be dead by assassins bullet by ‘24.
God alone will do that. I’ll keep praying…(and opening my big mouth)
Soooo…. is Rob DeSantis going to benefit somehow from the money that Sasse spent on “big contracts with consulting firms and high-salaried remote positions for former staffers of Sasse “??
DeSantis lost me forever and for good, when he was silent on the Mar-a-Largo raid.
His state, his backyard and as governor he had nothing to say about so egregious an event.
“The line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” — Solzhenitsyn
Exactly. Betrayal is forever.
He lost me forever when he had the Florida legislature change the rule to permit him to run for President while he was still Governor of Florida.
Nasty, naked ambition.
Rob needs to take the wife and go drinking with kamala. Same package different wrapper.
That money was long ago squirreled away offshore hidden, other than a few contracts to people that know how to keep their mouths shut and obvious legal contracts written in legalese that can obscure their true intentions.
Does a wild bear live in the woods? I was going to ask “Is the pope Catholic?” but, well….
Yeah, hard to tell these days!
A better question: “Is the Pope Communist?”
No, it’s “does a bear sh!t in the buckwheat?”
Sasse thought he was still in government and could spend as much as he what he wanted from the never ending tax payer base.
Morning lindak,
How many PDJT/MAGA haters have we seen get exposed as frauds,criminals, liars & traitors after attempting to project their own selves onto him? Many, and there are going to be many more.
Morning Colkitto,
It might be easier to count how many are not frauds and liars.
Touche
He’s all set now. His Senate salary and healthcare forever and 10 million in the bank. He never has to work again.
He has to live with his reputation I suppose.
Doubtless he will make the necessary effort.
Don’t suppose he cares about that.
When President Trump resumes the Presidency, I look forward to him “clawing back” with lion’s claws the I’ll gotten gains of RINOS and PEDOCRATS.
President of a public university is a government position.
I guess so. But he can’t hide in the Congress amongst his fellow crooks when he is running the show.
Well, actually, isn’t that what he did since UF is a public university funded by FL for the most part?
Ripping off the taxpayer is nothing to these people.
It’s free money to them.
The corrupt and immoral lousy POS’s just can’t help themselves!
Making ‘sausage’ is in their DNA!!
Sasse looks like he also plays hide the sausage with fellows like Paul Ryan. Preening narcissists.
More like sucking
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
But it’s critical that we see the map of who, what, where, and when.
We know the principal reasons WHY.
Thanks SD.
Thanks Geo C.
And no one ever questioned why a Senator from Nebraska, born in Nebraska, educated at Ivys and with no or little connections to Florida would want to be President of a flagship university in Florida?
😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣 😂
Man, you would think someone of importance would have noticed and addressed this at the beginning.
It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
PS – I think I’m starting to smell the whiff of burnt meatballs blowing in from the West of me again.
Be stinking at the beaches again.
😎
Sasse was president of Midland college before becoming Senator. So it wasn’t completely out if the blue . He thinks he is quite the intellect.
Midland is in Texas, not Florida!!!!
My point was connections to a flagship FLORIDA university.
Sasse was at Midland University in Nebraska.
Midland College is as you stated in Midland Texas.
Well actually it was Midland University in Nebraska. Not trying to misconstrue your post in any way. That is a Lutheran University, who profit greatly from shielding illegals. Just food for thought
Just to clarify: Lutherans, like Catholics and Presbyterians come in a spectrum of Orthodoxy. Some of them are little different from your local Masonic Lodge members — they bear little if any resemblance to true believers in Jesus Christ who by His life, death, and resurrection redeemed us from the clutches of Satan.
They deny the virgin birth, the account of creation in Genesis, the Resurrection, and a real heaven and hell — in short, they are apostates.
The “churches” which involve themselves in the “refugee for profit” business cannot claim the mantle of Christian for themselves, though they do — we all know them as wolves in sheep’s clothing.
It’s certainly true that in Lutheran circles the wolves far outnumber the sheep.
Why did you include the masonic lodge in your assessment? Just curious. My dad was one. Do you want to share? Or would you like to know what I know personally about them.
I would like to know what you know about the Masonic Lodge.
What I think I know about the Masons is that they are “this-world oriented.” Their mission/mandate is to effect good works in a variety of causes. What I remember from my early years is their deep concern for burn victims and the hospitals they helped erect for their treatment.
Am I mistaken? Let me know.
Yet good works cannot buy heaven for you: Ephesians 2:8-9 —– “8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not by works, so that no one can boast.”
That’s enough of my “high-jacking this thread.”
Sorry to all.
True Dat
Sasse was president of Midland University, a small school in Nebraska
There is a Midland College in Nebraska, too, and he was a Nebraska senator.
Oh, is Midland a University now? I must’ve missed that apotheosis.
Bingo!
I was certainly wondering I wasn’t making the connection…. Dirty Deeds
Money is just numbers in a spreadsheet to these grifters. Just make sure the handlers have the condo ready and the plane gassed up.
My interest in this story lies with the fact that Sasse gave those sweetheart remote work deals to fo
former staffers-an unforced error of major proportions. Why was he paying them off? What did they know about him?
Could be, Or just plain old kickbacks from said contracts.
All part of the grift. Similar to when someone leaves Congress and joins a lobbying firm or some foundation.
Sasse becomes and President UF and funnels money to his former staffers’ consulting firm.
Senate election favors, maybe some videos as well. They are all compromised .
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAHZAR3UMAAWa4w?format=jpg&name=medium RINO reunion
Aside: I just learned something really obscure and arcane… The “pbs” in that link has nothing to do with public broadcasting. It actually stands for Photo BlobStore, and is Twitter’s image hosting server.
Did you even wanna know that? Too bad. 😋
Gator Nation never wanted this carpet bagging Corn Husker.
Only tone def Ron would have foisted him upon us.
Don’t forget the other carpet-bagging Corn Husker who is running with the commie as vice president of the United States of America.
I believe Warren Buffet is a Nebraska man. I’m sure he stays out of politics being a simple man and all.
Nice Sundance
Another minor point … Governor Ron has to win a re-election campaign for governor before the 2028 Presidential Sweepstakes to be viable.
He is already in his second term.
Good point. He has to skip the 2026 election before running again.
He would need to become a Senator (Scott, Rubio) or Cabinet position to keep his name in the press. Scott up for reelection in November. Rubio in middle of term.
I hated that reports said Rubio was on short list for Trump’s VP. Don’t care for Rubio.
Rubio goes to a cabinet position, DeSantis takes the Senate seat.
Desantis is in his second term. The question is where will he land to keep himself viable as a 2028 candidate? The Big Club can’t trot him out again in four years and think voters will embrace him. Out of sight, out of mind.
The national press on this blatant pay to play and payoff?
What a goldmine for honest reporting if such an animal exists anymore
And We The People are paying for this…our own demise and not even aware. Fox outsmarting the fox here…Thank You! Data points point the way to the hard TRUTH.
“In the middle of all this, DeSantis shifts Sasse to UF President, RGA head who gave DeSantis $20 million replaces Sasse. Sasse then loots UF, quits and then DeSantis tries to back away from Sasse toward the exits.”
That’s about all you need to know.
Sasse will probably end up as CEO of a Midwest duck preserve just like Adam Putnam.
The Bush/RINOs in Florida are all the same.
Ben Sasse has always been in it for the money. DeSantis will probably end up getting caught with a bundle of the same money. I am tired of a bunch of Country Club hacks stealing what they want from our mostly corrupt political system. Not only are they grifters, but they are pushing the country to vote for Communists with their stupidity. If the Commie crowd gets in we can bet that feeding trough will dry up with the destruction of our entire economy. So, what do these Country Club boys think they are doing? Repugs have decided to circle up another firing squad. Nincompoops are back. Ain’t politics fun here in the last bastion of freedom.
I too loathe Republican’ts..
In a round about way, it seems DeSantis sold the Nebraska senate seat to Ricketts.
I thought the same thing. Ricketts figured out a way to get into the Big Grifter’s Club.
Yep. The first sentence of the sixth paragraph nails it, “The quid-pro-quo was complete. “
Yep. Just musical chairs. Everyone gets their share of money.
‘former Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts then became Senator {LINK}. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen…’
Remember the names. Sen Pete Ricketts and next in line Gov Jim Pillen – either are RINOs or are RINOs in the making. What happens to Sasse is immaterial to me at this point; it’s those who are still playing the game that are now important.
Sen. Ricketts can either help President Trump if all of us are able to get him into the WH and past all the obstacles they are throwing out there, or he can stab him in the back. He and DeSantis are still players.
Ben Sasse is a crooked, disgusting, sweltering, stinking piece of swamprat excrement, tbh.
I was a NeverDeSantis before
this changes nothing for me, it just reconfirms my thoughts.
“…so brutally Republican…”
Sasse as senator presented himself publicly as a libertarian. Now we see he was just another political grifter.
“Sasse’s naming as finalist quickly gave rise to speculation his elevation to the top UF job was another escalation in the feud between DeSantis and Trump, not an unreasonable guess. The former president despises Sasse, who voted to convict Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection and the House impeachment trial, and quickly went public with his belief the college would “regret” hiring him.”
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/columns/nate-monroe/2022/10/07/nate-monroe-ron-desantis-defiles-uf-selection-ben-sasse-president/8205404001/
From the same article…
”Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law earlier this year making applications for college presidential openings confidential, effectively cloaking the process in secrecy until the very end stages. From the outset, it was clear that the law was intended to give crucial cover as Florida’s benighted college boards considered overtly political candidates for the lucrative, powerful positions heading the state’s universities.”
The above article was written in 2022 and updated Aug. 13 5 days ago.
Wow, our real President nailed it!! Right again, as usual.
It appears that the investigation ought focus on Desanctimonius’ Office with Sasse being an accomplice.
Example # 5,438 of how little DeSantis cared about our backyard while globe trotting and forwarding his shadow campaign for higher office.
Exactly.
Bootsie DeSeaIslandsantis sure can pick ’em!
The potential 2028 Republican race of DeStanis v Vance will be interesting.
In the mean time, we gotta lotta trash to take out.
Sasse was never anything but a rino grifter. DeSantis is cut from the same cloth.
I love it when I put this on READER and it reads the emojis to me. I would never have known what they meant otherwise.
Something I would never notice brought to you by SD, it’s why I come here 🤔
I didn’t know all the background as spelled out here.
But I did know Sasse was a snake in the Senate and snakes don’t change.
Ron! has done sooo many shady things that have come to light I don’t see him having much of a future in politics at any level. Okay maybe dog catcher.
He seems to be a failure at everything he attempts.
C’mon, Ben Sasse is smarter than everyone else.
What I love about his story, is that the proverbial chlckens are coming home to roost.
The left LOVED Sen. Ben Sasse for “standing up to Trump.”
Article:
2022: Republican Ben Sasse says he’s ‘sad’ for ‘needy and desperate’ Trump in parting shot before leaving the Senate
“I’m just sad for him as a human because obviously there’s a lot of complicated stuff going on in that soul,” …. “Just at a human level, I’m sad for him to be that needy and desperate.”
(What an ass. Maybe Sasse never heard the song: “You don’t trod on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit in the wind….”)
A staunch conservative, the Nebraskan worked with the Trump White House on a myriad of policy issues. But Sasse never connected with Trump on a personal level, frequently criticizing the candidate and later president in a fractious relationship that culminated in Sasse’s vote in favor of convicting Trump for inciting the Capitol riot.
“The president repeated these lies when summoning his crowd — parts of which were widely known to be violent — to Capitol Hill to intimidate Vice President Pence and Congress into not fulfilling our constitutional duties,” Sasse said in a statement after joining six fellow Republicans in voting to convict Trump.”Those lies had consequences, endangering the life of the vice president and bringing us dangerously close to a bloody constitutional crisis.”
Trump repeatedly lashed out at Sasse, including in 2016 when he said the Nebraskan looked “more like a gym rat than a U.S. senator.” Allies of the former president in the Nebraska Republican Party also moved to formally rebuke the senator after his conviction vote.
(Hahahaha)
As for his legacy, …that in addition to working with Trump to confirm conservative judges, including three Supreme Court justices, he is proud of his work on the Senate Intelligence Committee and for his role in the creation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a bipartisan panel focused on advising a strategy to thwart major cyber attacks.
https://archive.ph/drfqR#selection-2147.0-2151.0
Talk about being on the wrong side of history.
PS. I find it funny that a student newspaper would do all the research, and have the ‘motivation’ to come up with an article delving into spending by the head guy. By university standards, it’s not that much money.
Unless someone ‘fed’ the students the info….hmm….know anyone in Florida interested in ‘payback’?
I didn’t like him before, I definitely don’t like him after reading that.
Rickets lost control of NE GOP at state level in July of 2022. On the day the new GOP chairman took office, Pricketts needed to clean out NE GOP headquarters in Lincoln NE — incriminating data there.
STRONGLY confirmed information is that the mother of Pricketts communication director actually did the dirty deed of cleaning the NE GOP HQ. The communications director is HIGHLY POLITICAL NE FAMILY — Mafia style stuff at minimum as comm directors grandma is a former governor… here’s some more.
Prickets had the investigation (that went into state police special investigators office) diverted/suppressed. However, at least two private investigations exist to my knowledge.
Just ByTheBy info — ES&S has HQ in Omaha and don’t forget the history of the Franklin cover-op in the 1990’s here in NE!!!!
Just in case people are not familiar with the Frankin cover-up —-
just want to STRONGLY EMPHASIZE what the Franklin Scandal and cover-up REALLY IS!
Franklin Scandal and Cover-up…
1) Precursor or parallel to EPSTEIN in minor involved sex trafficking. Absolutely no doubts here.
2) Full corruption of NE legislature at the time
3) Full corruption of judicial branch at the time
4) No “corrections were “made”
5) Banks involved
6) FBI covered it up
7) Lead investigator “killed”
8) Primary figure (Lawrence King) was GOP “party” leader (i mean party like drinks and girls and hord’oevres) at GOP convention
9) From Franklin Case connect to Wash DC and sex-traffic-blackmail ops but “sauce-in-public” is not strong here.
I, too, was remembering the Franklin Coverup. It has always amazed me the disturbing things that come out of Nebraska.
Omaha is a banking and financial center.
Therein lies the explanation as to why disturbing things come out of Nebraska.
https://x.com/BenSasse/status/1824475441933193386
“My family and I have come to love Gator Nation, and I’m honored to continue toiling in these fields. “
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I must towel off the work-sweat with this stack of hundreds.”
🤣
I betcha that until all these shenanigans came to light Sasse was eyeing to be the next governor of Florida when meatball was done.
If little Benny paid people who worked for him when he was a Wuss Senator out of funds that belong to the school he should have been arrested instantly.
skeptical fox is, skeptical.
Ron is about as clever at hiding his corruption as Joe Biden. Remains to be seen if he is untouchable like Scranton Joe.
Looking more like Rod Blagojevich.
The Administrative State appears to have invested much leverage in Ron!, and leverage is worthless when invested in a politician without a political future.
If the AS can’t get him into the Senate or into a Cabinet position, I suspect his creditors will begin to view him as a liability.
He appears to be the Rino’s useful idiot at this point.
FTA –
Sasse – “Now, it is true that there was substantial funding for a number of important new initiatives. I am very happy to defend each and every one of these initiatives … because from day one, the whole reason I agreed to leave a great job representing the salt-of-earth people of my home state of Nebraska is precisely because higher education needs massive reform,” he said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3124630/desantis-inquiry-former-university-florida-president-ben-sasses/
Surrrrrrr👌 Sasse…. Sure it hadn’t anything to do with this;
FTA – ‘five-year contract for Sasse at the school, which will pay him an annual base salary of $1 million with incentives that could ultimately boost his compensation.’
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/09/florida-university-leaders-approve-1m-salary-sasse-00065971
FTA – … ‘His (Sasse) travel expenses rose to $633,000 over his first full fiscal year, more than Fuchs spent on travel in eight years.
He also spent $7.2 million on consulting contracts, nearly two-thirds of which went to consulting giant McKinsey and Company’
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2024/08/14/sasse-spent-millions-hiring-gop-allies-uf-president-report/
Curious what program initiatives McKinsey advised Sasse to implement while at UF?
About McKinsey & Co;
McKinsey’s Fred Gluck – along with Boston Consulting Group’s Bruce Henderson, Bill Bain at Bain & Company, and Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter – initiated a program designed to transform corporate culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company
he sounds just like Tiffany Henyard from out in I think it is Illinois
Think bigger than Tiffany…:)
I detest John Oliver but as I began looking into McKinsey and Company, found this video segment from JO. NOT validating JO or his narratives but found this interesting anyway.
This sort of scheming as a republican is reprehensible (and it truly is). This sort of scheming as a democrat gets you to the top of the ticket.
GOP voters will punish the FL GOP for this. Democrat-Communist voters never punish their candidates, they just double-down on their support.
The republicans and democrats are equally filthy and controlled by satan. The only difference is how their voters respond.
People in Nebraska aren’t surprised. Nebraskans are very loyal to their RINO party, the party of expediency.
IMHO Sasse is the epitome of RINOS!!
He worked against PDJT at every turn.
Always had the impression Sasse was more corrupt than most.
Doesn’t surprise me at all that he bought his job at the University of Fla and then stole over 17 million bucks from his “new” job.
Didn’t work out so good for you aye Governor Ronnie.
CORRUPT POLITICS AT ITS WORSE!
A massive pay to play scheme. 💁🏻♀️
SUNDANCE, I love your photo library!! (and your apt use of it LOL!)
What came of the money looted from UF?
Someone please explain the Fox pictures to me. I don’t get it.
The Fox is hunting the Hound, because the Hound is less clever than it thinks it is.