When campaign-finance law looks like an unfunny joke
Make Me Smart
English - January 23, 2024 02:06 - 14 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 4.6K ratingsBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has ended his 2024 presidential bid. One feature of his campaign that caught our attention: the tight-knit relationship between himself and the Ron DeSantis super PAC, two things that should be very separate. We’ll get into how DeSantis’ team pushed the boundaries of campaign-finance law and what it says about how we govern campaign cash in the U.S. And, we’ll peel back the layers of DeSantis’ recent misattributed Winston Churchill quote. Plus, a record morning for manatees in a Florida state park!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
“DeSantis-linked super PAC broke new ground in pushing campaign finance rules in Iowa in support of a 2nd-place finish” from The Conversation
“Boeing Faces More Pressure as United CEO Vents Frustrations” from Bloomberg
“Pour One Out for Ron DeSantis” from The Atlantic
A Facebook post celebrating a record manatee count from Blue Spring State Park in Florida
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