Florida Gov. DeSantis’ administration has quietly changed state guidelines, allowing a state-level political committee previously run by the governor to move millions of dollars to a super PAC helping his presidential campaign.
The 2022 version of the Florida Division of Elections Political Committee Handbook.version published in March, however, the answer changed. It now advises that such transfers are allowed, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, in which the court removed a ban on corporations’ and unions’ making independent expenditures. It paved the way for super PACs like Never Back Down, which is expected to spend upward of $200 million helping DeSantis try to win the White House.
In early May, DeSantis distanced himself from Friends of Ron DeSantis, the state-level political committee, when Republican state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, a strong DeSantis ally, was made the group’s chairman. “DeSantis engaged in an extended period of fundraising, as well as domestic and foreign travel, to build a presidential war chest and publicly present himself as a viable presidential candidate,” the complaint reads.
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