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“Don’t listen to Prizzia… We’re all stoked!”

August 5, 2025

  • That mask of hypocrisy is appropriate.

    It would work for many others too.

    Thanks Jake!

  • Where is all that pilfered money ya’ll?
    Another good one Jake 😉

  • Lame cartoon, based on nothing.

    Now do DeSantis stealing $10 million from Florida taxpayers, you stooge. That actually happened.

    • What about the 2 billion the city of gainesville crooks spent on the wood burner? Got any answers. Huh???

    • There is exactly zero evidence that DeSantis “stole” money from “Florida taxpayers.” If your state information sources were reliable, you would know that the money didn’t come from taxpayers (it came from Centene as part of a settlement that didn’t directly match up to the amount of alleged fraud) and went to a nonprofit that is not associated with either Ron or Casey DeSantis (look up Hope Florida Foundation in Sunbiz). Then a similar amount of money was sent to PACs, but again, there is no direct link to Ron or Casey and zero evidence of the allegations that the transfers were “directed” by people close to DeSantis. So stop saying this “actually happened” when there is no evidence. You’re just spewing narratives.

      • https://x.com/LivCaputo/status/1953106306622968191

        Also see the reply: “Looks like the Medicaid money was only about ~$19 million of the $67 million settlement. So the other $36 million sent to AHCA, and then the $10 million sent to Hope Florida, were other provisions in that settlement to the state, but not Medicaid funds”

        • Hannah, the link has nothing to do with where it was sent, but the amounts. Unless you show us where it was owed to Ms or Mr DeSantis personally, or to Hope charity, the governor lifted it.

      • Hannah, the money was owed to Florida – not Hope – because Centene overbilled taxpayers. How did it get to Hope, a favored charity of DeSantis and why was Hope allowed to use it as dark money against ballot intiatives? That’s what happened and Fl DOGE – if it is not a complete joke – should be looking at that, as should the AG if he weren’t involved, along with the no-bid awarding of work on Alligater Auschwitz to campaign donors, who paid for DeSantis campaign flights, and who paid for sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard – best guess is you and I did.

        “The allegations involve $10 million that was paid to Florida by Centene, a company that provides managed care to Medicaid recipients. The money was part of a $67 million settlement by the company after it was charged with overbilling taxpayers for medications. Ten million dollars of the settlement was paid directly to a non-profit group, Hope Florida. That’s a charity founded by Gov. DeSantis’ wife, Casey, to help people move off government assistance into community-based programs.

        An investigation by state lawmakers found that after receiving it, Hope Florida transferred the $10 million to two “dark money” political groups — groups that aren’t required to disclose their donors. The two groups then sent some $8.5 million to a political committee that was campaigning against an amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in the state. It was a group controlled by DeSantis’ then-chief of staff, now Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.

        Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Alex Andrade, say they believe that transaction was illegal.

        At a hearing of the Health Care Subcommittee in Florida’s House of Representatives, Andrade said, “There’s no question that these were Medicaid funds, steered by the Governor’s chief of staff through secret and clandestine actions to his own political committee.”..”

        https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5368535/ron-desantis-florida-governor-political-scandal

        • I don’t know why I bother to argue with you, because all you do is deflect.

          Your article is outdated. The information I sent is new, and it found that only about a third of the money Centene paid was overbilled to taxpayers. The rest was possibly “treble damages,” but those details are unclear, and $10 million of the amount ABOVE THE AMOUNT OWED TO THE STATE was donated to the Hope Florida Foundation (NOT HOPE FLORIDA). It is common for settlements to involve funds paid to nonprofits.

          Casey DeSantis did NOT found the Hope Florida Foundation (like I said, look at SunBiz). She had the idea to convert existing state employees into Hope Florida Ambassadors, but the nonprofit is a direct support foundation that is used to collect donations for grants to groups that partner with the state. It is not a state agency, and Casey DeSantis is not involved with the foundation.

          It’s also irrelevant whether Andrade thought it was illegal for the foundation to make grants to the PACs – he has said a lot of things in his quest to destroy the DeSantis family. A Tallahassee prosecutor (Democrat) was asked to look into it, and nothing more has happened. Maybe it still will, but it’s clearly not an open-and-shut case.

          I’m done because you’re clearly not curious enough to actually follow this step by step and prefer bumper-sticker narratives like “DeSantis stole $10 million!!”

          • Hannah, speaking of deflection, you have avoided addressing how Hope Florida got $10 million from the settlement, no matter it’s size, or who decided it would be used to fund a PAC in a political campaign.

            Following your own link, it ultimately leads to a Politico article of the same date, which not only says Casey started Hope (as does a Florida Dept of Children and Family’s web site, and she is featured on Hope’s “About Us” web page. If she has nothing to do with Hope she should be suing them for false advertising.

            The Politico article (yesterday’s date) goes deep into the still unclear machinations of how Hope and the Pac got the money, but says the “legislature” thinks the money should have all gone to taxpayers and offers no plausib;e explanation of how Hope got $10 million.

            https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/newly-released-hope-florida-records-reignite-intra-gop-political-battle-00495069

            Your call on whether you have those answers, but so far you haven’t and it smells. Maybe FL DOGE should look into it.

          • You continue to dishonestly conflate Hope Florida (a state program) and Hope Florida Foundation (a nonprofit). The money went to the Foundation.

            Casey DeSantis is NOT featured on the Foundation’s website but on the state program’s website.

            From the link you posted: “But the records, some of which were previously confidential under trade secret laws, show the $67 million amount was more than three times the actual loss incurred by the state when it was overbilled.” All taxpayer money was properly returned to the state, and the excess money was distributed by lawyers with a judge’s approval.

            “The legislature” doesn’t “think.” The article relies on quotes from one Republican, Andrade, who “believes” that something illegal happened, but he has provided no evidence of that and admits that the Speaker may not even let him continue his “investigation” next year.

          • Hannah, since you claim I am being dishonest, rather than confused – as apparently everyone else is including Politico and NPR – about what difference – if any – there is between “Hope Florida” and “Hope Florida Foundation”, why don’t you explain to us what that difference is and why two seperate organizations – as you claim – have almost exactly the same name, and why. But here’s a clue for you from the Politico article:

            “Casey DeSantis began promoting Hope Florida a short time after, and the program later spawned the Hope Florida Foundation, to help raise and distribute money without state restrictions. The $10 million donation from the otherwise-unrelated settlement agreement was by far the largest fielded by the foundation, which otherwise struggled to raise funds and manage key financial tasks, such as filing federal taxes.”

            You are still avoiding – “dishonestly”? – explaining how that $10 million – which you alone claim Casey DeSantis had nothing to do with – went to political campaigns.

            As to what the “legislature “thinks – I was quoting the Politico article (“..state lawmakers believe the entire amount should have been returned to the Legislature.”).

            As to the amounts, which you seem to think anything above a specific loss by Medicaid is mad money for the Governor to play with, is expained here:

            “According to letters sent to the state by Centene, the settlement gave more than $19.4 million to cover the actual loss incurred by the state and another $36.8 million in profits collected by Centene’s former pharmacy benefit manager. There was an additional $10.8 million offered to cover any additional losses or costs associated with the state’s claim. Both sides agreed to cover their own legal costs…”

            I eagerly await your expanation, and no doubt so does everyone else confused by the shell game.

          • Since you clearly have not gone to Sunbiz or invested even the smallest amount of time in learning about the difference between a state program (Hope Florida) and a direct support organization (Hope Florida Foundation) – think UF and the UF Foundation – I’m not going to spend more time trying to explain it.

            It is more than possible that it was improper (although probably not illegal) for the Foundation to give money to PACs, but if that is the case, the fault/liability/guilt lies with the Hope Florida Foundation leadership (which, as I’ve said until I’m blue in the face, YOU CAN LOOK UP AT SUNBIZ), not with anyone in the state government. The leadership is, in the end, responsible for legally distributing the funds donated to the Foundation, regardless of the source.

            And there is still zero evidence that Ron or Casey DeSantis saw even one dollar of that money, but I know you’ll cling to your narrative, anyway, so have a good day.

          • Hannah, along with filing my federal taxes every year I check in with Sunbiz yearly for my own corporate filings, so I know what limited information is there. Of course the probable shadow Hope Florida Foundation didn’t bother with it’s federal taxes according to that article, though it received $10 million for unknown reasons which you previously claimed – along with claiming it has no relationship at all with Hope Florida – had nothing to do with the Governor’s wife. At least here you admit finally that it was a “support” organization with no known reason to be cut into settlement money which the payee said included direct losses to Medicaid, illegally obtained profits from it’s pharmacists, and “any additional losses or costs associated with the state’s claim”. I don’t see where the payee just wanted to contribute to a random charity which also randomly was in support of the governor’s wife’s pet project.

            So, we agree the money in question was possibily improperly given to the Pacs, though neither one of us knows if it was illegal – that’s what courts are for – and you still pretend that the Hope Florida Foundation had nothing to do with Hope Florida and that the $10 million given to it was just a charitable good deed by the defendant.

            That stinks and sounds like a better use of time for FL DOGE than bullying local governments who’s politics the governor doesn’t like.

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