Politico one-ups '60 Minutes,' discovers FL Gov. Ron DeSantis dislikes meetings and doesn't trust political operatives

Greg P. | 7:21 PM on May 07, 2021

If you thought the hit job on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by “60 Minutes” was bad, take a look a this “SCOOP” in the DC Politico Playbook today.

Apparently, some anonymous former staffers do not like the governor which is just unheard of in the history of former staffers and their bosses:

SCOOP: @GovRonDeSantis is setting himself up to be Trump's successor.

But he has a bit of problem: a bunch of ex-staffers who say he's a bad boss & consultants who say they won't work w/him again.

w/@tarapalmeri in @playbookdc https://t.co/FZ2zudlJf6

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 7, 2021

And these “scarred” staffers have formed a “support group”:

NEW: Scarred DeSantis staffers form a support group https://t.co/psCdVcoIMJ w/ @rachaelmbade

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) May 7, 2021

Well, there’s a reason they’re “former” staffers, right?

Former staff are generally "disgruntled."

That's why they're, you know, former.

This "oppo dump" is basically "people who probably got fired don't like him," and "he takes counsel from his wife." https://t.co/CVm9ikgv3W

— Dan Isett (@DanIsett) May 7, 2021

Quoting from Politico, “DeSantis treats staff like expendable widgets”:

According to our anonymous sources with an inside look at Ron DeSantis, he doesn't trust smart, attractive people who he thinks might snitch on him as a form of petty revenge but prefers talking to his dumb wife, who probably didn't even go to Yalehttps://t.co/3GvjOQCE2E

— PoliMath (@politicalmath) May 7, 2021

I vastly prefer *any* candidate where oppo hit on them is "they didn't seem to trust any of the creepy little weasels who attach themselves like barnacles to anyone with power but sneak off at their first opportunity to go tattle in exchange to an ice cream and a pat on the head"

— PoliMath (@politicalmath) May 7, 2021

Dana Loesch agrees:

This makes me like @RonDeSantisFL even more https://t.co/TEd2bdEk9G

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 7, 2021

Won’t someone shed a tear for these political operatives?

“Politician treats fungible flunkies like fungible flunkies.” https://t.co/BbRdP9v0qP

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 7, 2021

Big DeSantis scandal here. He doesn’t have a presidential campaign yet, and he prefers his and his wife’s instincts, to those of political operatives. https://t.co/1ODzJcDdEp

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 7, 2021

Does Ron DeSantis admire flacks, operatives, and flunkies enough? https://t.co/3wyks8NOhy

— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) May 7, 2021

But wait, it gets better. . .

DeSantis reportedly has such a hatred of meetings set up by his expendable widgets that they have to trick him to attend by serving cupcakes:

my fave nugget — “Aides would lure DeSantis to staff meetings with cupcakes, saying that it was a colleague’s birthday to get him to attend.”

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) May 7, 2021

That’s it? That’s all they got on him?