Florida Judge Begins Dismantling Governor DeSantis’ Secrecy Operation
June 23, 2024 | Sundance1/2
People will see…. it might take a little more time than I would prefer, but the truth will come out and people will see. A judge in Florida is starting to take apart the secrecy operation that Ron DeSantis and his DC Bush clan constructed during their block Trump operation.
DeSantis moved from Congress to the Florida Governor position in 2018; the intent was always to run for President in 2024 and take apart the Trump constructs returning the Republican apparatus to traditional corporate controls.Part of their lengthy approach was to import some of the Washington DC silo/secrecy functions and overlay them into Florida state politics.
Arguably, Florida had the strongest public record transparency laws in the country, known collectively as “the sunshine laws.” When importing the schemes of DC, in order to support the hidden DeSantis agenda, those sunshine laws were considered a problem. The DeSantis team began changing the rules, subverting laws and demanding support from legislation.
They changed the law so the ‘Top Gov’ could run for President without giving up his office in April 2023. The following month, May 2023, they pressured legislature to change the transparency law on travel. This change kept the governor and top aide’s travel arrangements (who pays, how, etc.) hidden from the public. They made this specific law change retroactive to hide all the Sea Island donors who gave DeSantis private jets to use, while the 2024 campaign was denying they were campaigning in 2022.
Now, a Florida judge is responding to a lawsuit whereDeSantis’ lawyers are admitting the governor’s chief-of-staff, James Uthmeier, was arranging/conducting the governor’s official office business on his private cellphone. The governor’s office is admitting personal cell phones were used and yet still rebuking the judge’s prior order to make the call logs public.
Leon County Circuit Judge Lee Marsh is not happy about this.
FLORIDA – […]“We ought to just put out word, ‘Let’s do all of our business on private, bring-your-own cellphones,” Marsh said. “Then we don’t need public records laws because there’ll be no public records, right?”
[…] On Tuesday, Marsh rubbed his eyes and held his head in his hands in apparent exasperation while debating Florida’s public records law with DeSantis’ lawyers.
Marsh noted the state’s definition of “public records” said nothing about data points or whether records needed to be on state property.It defines a public record as “any material, regardless of the physical form, characteristics, or means of transmission, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by any agency.”
[…] Marsh said the way the administration communicated about the migrant flights “appears to be an end around Florida’s public record laws.”“This is supposed to be the open free state of Florida, where it’s transparency, and
this was done with, you know, Clarice Starling and private emails,” Marsh said.
“This smacks of trying to not be open with the records.”
Marsh then questioned why Uthmeier, who described himself in an affidavit in the case as “the highest-ranking nonelected official in the State of Florida,” was using his personal phone for state calls. […]“Why is this individual using a private cellphone and thus avoiding public records?” Marsh asked.
“Your honor, I don’t have an answer for that,” Lunny said. (read more)
Now, you might say, ‘With everything going on in the world, why do these granular hindsight details matter right now? Why focus inside our camp?’ The answer is pretty simple….
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/06/23/florida-judge-begins-dismantling-governor-desantis-secrecy-operation/