DeSantis voted against Sandy aid a decade ago. Now his state needs the help.

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Florida’s Republicans have a complicated relationship with disaster aid.

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That'll go over his head.

Pretty much everything goes over his head, it's one of the drawbacks of being so short.

I am getting pretty tired of bailing out people who built in a place that gets hurricanes on a pretty much anual basis, though... Makes me think what they should start doing is refusing to pay for rebuilds- and instead just buy them out and turn the beach/whatever over to a patchwork of national 'forests' or something.

I disagree. He is an incredibly intelligent person. He just lacks any sort of shame or moral fortitude and believes that whatever it takes to enrich himself is justified.