Inside a DeSantis appointee's taxpayer-funded spending spree The political appointee picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run elections in Orlando last year spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on campaign-style self-promotion, contracts with personal friends, and payments to allies of the Republican governor and other GOP leaders in Tallahassee. During a 10-month stint as the interim Supervisor of Elections in Orange County, records show DeSantis appointee Glen Gilzean steered work to an assortment of businesses and organizations run by Republican operatives — ranging from the governor’s former communications director to state Rep. Susan Plasencia (R-Orlando). Gilzean also awarded a lucrative legal contract to a law firm run by the best man at his wedding — and a marketing contract to a newly created video production company that corporate, obituary, and email records suggest involved his best man’s brother. Inside a DeSantis appointee's taxpayer-funded spending spree This is a good read that shows the angled web of grifting and scratching each other's backs on behalf of tax payer money. One thing about a Desantis appointee is you know they're going to waste as much tax payer money as possible then claim a Democrat witch hunt
