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Ross Ulbricht also hired hitmen to cover it up, facilitated CSAM and human trafficking
Quite obviously a victim of the weaponization of justice
DeSantis funneled $10M of public funds through his wife's non-profit to political dark money organizations, then handed out political jobs to the people who helped him do it
Republicans continue to prove that government is bad and corrupt by governing badly and corruptly
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/h...r-august-2026/The fallout from the grand jury report into the Hope Florida scandal continues to grow.
The grand jury found the DeSantis Administration "misappropriated" $10 million of taxpayer money as part of a "sophisticated scheme to fund political activities."
The $10 million was first sent to the Hope Florida Foundation, a nonprofit established to support First Lady Casey DeSantis' Hope Florida initiative. But the money was quickly routed through two different nonprofits before making its way into a dark-money political action committee controlled by James Uthmeier. From there, most of it was rerouted to the Republican Party of Florida's bank account.
The grand jury said they couldn't bring criminal charges because no one would take responsibility for the decision to divert the $10 million.
At the time of the transfer, Uthmeier was DeSantis's chief of staff. Four months after the transfer, DeSantis appointed him to be Florida Attorney General. He is up for election in November.
His Democratic opponent, former State Senator Jose Javier Rodriguez, seized the grand jury report to argue Uthmeier was unfit to serve.
"This may well be the most brazen act of political corruption we have seen here in Florida," Rodriguez said. "My opponent is a criminal. He's a criminal who should resign. He should come clean and turn himself in."
The grand jury also criticized Ashley Moody, who was the attorney general at the time. The grand jury said Moody and her office failed to exercise due diligence and ensure taxpayer money wasn't being misspent. Four months after the transfer, DeSantis appointed Moody to the United States Senate.
"So this is the ultimate betrayal of working families," said State Representative Angie Nixon, who is challenging Moody in the Senate race. "Think about this, Ashley Moody stole $10 million from children in Florida. Everyone involved in this, Ashley Moody included, should resign. They should resign. Enough is enough."
Ross Ulbricht also hired hitmen to cover it up, facilitated CSAM and human trafficking
Quite obviously a victim of the weaponization of justice
This Husted staffer is not to be confused with the Husted staffer who resigned in July after they learned he sexually abused a minor. Also not to be confused with that man's brother, who tried to kill Amy Acton on Labor Day
https://www.rawstory.com/jon-husted-2677849073/
Sen. Jon Husted's political director in Ohio's closely watched Senate race is out of a job after The Washington Post uncovered a trail of social media activity linking him to SS reenactment culture, Nazi memorabilia and playlists glorifying white-minority-ruled Rhodesia.
Stephen Woytek, 25, had only been named Husted's political director in August when the reporting surfaced. His public Facebook account once used a photo of real 1941 Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Division soldiers as his profile picture, an image that remained visible on his account as recently as Friday. He also followed a WWII reenactment group specifically dedicated to portraying that same SS unit, followed suppliers of SS military uniforms, and created a Pinterest board years ago featuring Nazi uniform images.
Husted's campaign moved quickly once contacted by reporters, announcing it would part ways with Woytek.
letting a twice-convicted kiddie sex offender bless your campaign event does emphasize Christian values such as forgiveness and the awesome transformative power of spiritual redemption, but it may not be politically astute
https://www.aol.com/articles/convict...214710000.htmlA pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.”
The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What was surprising was the man who delivered it. Pastor Daimon L. King is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison for convictions involving children, according to state and court records.
The episode occurred with two months to go in a marquee Senate race that could help decide which party controls the chamber after the November elections. It risks undermining one of Whatley’s central campaign arguments — that his Democratic opponent, former Gov. Roy Cooper, is soft on crime. And it could feed into an advertising blitz by Democrats that has targeted the Republican candidate’s association with another convicted sex offender, a former GOP official.
WTF man?King’s prayer and Whatley’s association with the former GOP official Harvey L. West Jr., the other convicted sex offender, could prove particularly problematic as the Republican Senate candidate seeks to shore up support from hard-right conservatives
it's like they want to spell out to sex criminals that Republicans will protect them
we see this at the national level too, with Republicans closing ranks around Donald Trump and l'affaire Epstein
After 30 years of one-party rule in Texas, Republican fascists are scared for some reason
GOP has one guy left who calls out racism (after he lost his primary)
wow
Bo French crossed a line with a lot of Rs
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09...mmissioner-ut/Cornyn’s message prompted a flood of criticisms against French from several Texas Republican state representatives. “You can oppose immigration policy without demeaning people because of their race or ethnicity — this post has crossed the line,” said House Speaker Dustin Burrows.
Others took an even firmer stance.
Former House Speaker Dade Phelan called French “unfit for office.” State Rep. Jared Patterson said Texans deserve Railroad Commissioners who do their job instead of “using a statewide campaign as a platform for racial division.” And state Rep. Drew Darby lamented that he has “never seen conduct so unbecoming of a Railroad Commissioner or candidate in that time.”
Darby’s call for French to apologize came with a threat.
“If not, I would remind any candidate that the Texas Legislature has granted the Railroad Commission broad discretion in carrying out its duties — because we have trusted the competence and fairness of those who serve. That trust can be revisited,” Darby, who chairs the House’s Energy Resources committee, added in his post on X.
“If Mr. French wants to regulate immigration policy, he should have run for Congress.”
Bo French doubles down on bigotry
There's no way French can tell who's a foreigner or not by looking at a crowd pic at Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium
But, in the hours since Cornyn’s criticisms, French has only doubled and tripled down on his remarks and called the senator a RINO — Republican in name only — who has cheered for foreign nationals over American citizens.
“He and the other America Last losers are mad that Texas Republicans are starting to put America First,” he said in a post. His campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Some Texas Republicans, like former Texas GOP chair Matt Rinaldi and state Rep. Andy Hopper, also came to French’s defense. They mostly attacked Cornyn, with Hopper deriding the senator as a “smug globalist” who lost his primary election by 28 points.
This was not the first time that elected Texas Republican officials have blasted French for his racist remarks, but it remains to be seen whether these criticisms would blunt his rise to statewide office.
Several state leaders including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on him to resign from his role as the Tarrant County chair last year, after French published a social media poll asking whether Jews or Muslims were a bigger threat to America.
Patrick then endorsed French’s rival in the Republican primary for the Texas Railroad Commissioner race earlier this year. But the lieutenant governor reportedly changed his stance, after French won the primary runoff to be the GOP nominee.
Abbott has also supported French in the statewide race, despite previously warning during the primary election that he would “wreck the miracle” of Texas’ oil and gas production.
Patrick’s office did not immediately respond to a comment request about whether he would condemn French’s new posts. Cornyn’s office also did not immediately respond to questions, including whether he would back Rosenthal in the Texas Railroad Commissioner race.
French also has the support of the industry, as he announced an endorsement from the Texas Oil & Gas Association PAC on Thursday. In response, Rosenthal said it was disappointing to see the trade association — whose members produce nearly all of Texas’ crude oil and natural gas — backs a “wholly unqualified” nominee instead of a “true oil and gas candidate.”
On Sunday, the Democrat pointed to French’s remarks and asked in a post on X if the association endorses them: “Attacking young Texans, some of whom will be O&G engineers? How do your members feel about this?”
The TXOGA PAC didn’t immediately respond to a comment request.
neo-Nazi to Republican pipeline
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
Meet white supremacist Marshall Rawson, who marched with Nazis in Charlottesville, and who will soon enter the Florida legislature as a Republican.
MAGA cracking up over strident GOP bigotry, is that woke?
What they hate is that Texas looks like this. Texans look like this. Our state is young: one in 4 people are under 18. And they are super diverse. What Bo here is saying is that he doesn't know Texans and he sure doesn't like them
DEI for white people is currently tipping over catastrophically into ethnic cleansing in the USA
Bo French's comment is in keeping with that
By the way, UT Austin is 32% white. 24% of Texas high schoolers are white. Whites are overrepresented at UT
(Republicans might want to reconsider ending affirmative-action, considering how much Asian-Americans outperform white kids in high-school)
The absolute madness around this photo speaks volumes about how the modern conservative mind is broken. These kids have done everything asked—they're assimilated legal citizens, they succeeded in a meritocracy, they're celebrating American ideas.
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