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A spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that there are no plans for the Republican to meet with President Joe Biden when he travels to Florida on Saturday, contradicting comments Biden made earlier in the day indicating they would.

“We don’t have any plans for the Governor to meet with the President tomorrow,” DeSantis spokesperson Jeremy Redfern told CNN Friday. “In these rural communities, and so soon after impact, the security preparations alone that would go into setting up such a meeting would shut down ongoing recovery efforts.”

Biden had told CNN earlier Friday that “yes,” he did plan to meet with the Florida governor while surveying damage from Hurricane Idalia in the state over the weekend.

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[-] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

It's kind of a nothing. I'm glad Biden visited a red state after yet another disaster and is doing what a president should. He even met Senator Skeletor (Rick Scott). DeSantis not meeting him is an act of political cowardice, and after the last time Biden outshone him in his own state it's also clear thinking. My governor can't afford too many more Ls.

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminder that Rick Scott's insurance company was responsible for one of the biggest Medicare frauds in history under his leadership.

Wikipedia:

During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs. The Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.[7][8]

He also didn't let his administration use the phrase climate change - in a state with 1350 miles of coastline : https://www.npr.org/2015/03/10/392142452/florida-gov-scott-denies-banning-phrase-climate-change

He was voted in as senator replacing bill Nelson, an environmentalist, mission specialist on a shuttle mission to space, and all around good reasonable guy.

Fuck Rick scott and fuck Florida.

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