Jacob Engels interviews Roger Stone and Matt Gaetz in Florida OCT 6, 2017. Gaetz states that Roger Stone "DRAFTED" him in 2013-14. More to come on this later.
Gaetz calls Stone the Cannabis Consigliere. Part of US Cannabis Coalition.
“One of the companies on the list is Simpson Nurseries, a massive farm in North Florida, operated by the family of state Rep. Halsey Beshears.
Beshears, R-Monticello, is a freshman state representative whose campaign treasurer is the lobbyist for the Florida Nursery Growers
Association. Beshears' cousin is Adam Hollingsworth, Gov. Scott's chief of staff. It's unclear why Beshears didn't file a conflict of interest report when he voted for the bill, but his father says it's unlikely the company will farm marijuana.
"We're certainly not thinking about
it today,'' said Fred Beshears, owner of Simpson Nurseries. "I'm very leery about that and anything to do with marijuana.''
Beshears family owns large shares of Trulieve valued in hundreds of millions of dollars.
One marijuana company keeps coming up in the recent Florida matters with Gaetz. It's called Trulieve. Here ya go: 1. DeSantis signed the first bill of his administration into law in March, 2019, lifting a ban on the sale of smokable medical marijuana by licensed dispensaries.
2. Trulieve became the first to legally offer smokable medical marijuana flower, selling the product at its dispensary in Tallahassee. It is owned by Halsey Beshears' family, the former DeSantis DBPR secretary who is apparently third republican involved in Gaetz sex
trafficking investigation.
3. Trulieve has high paid lobbyists in Washington DC and Tallahassee from Ballard Partners including Brian Ballard, Chris Dorworth (until yesterday) and Sylvester Lukis.
4. Dorworth is buddies with Beshears, Gaetz, Greenberg and Pirozzolo.
I figured I would post these before the hand doctor/pilot to Republican leaders/marijuana mogul/doctor for Florida legislature shuts down his Facebook page
"But with more than 32,000 people dead across the state from COVID-19, and the DeSantis administration accused of hiding the true scope of the pandemic in Florida, some are unconvinced. Last spring, attorney Daniel Uhlfelder took to the beaches of Florida dressed as the
as the Grim Reaper as a criticism of DeSantis’s handling of the pandemic. Since then he has emerged as one of the governor’s most vociferous critics, and is part of an effort to defeat him in 2022. “Florida is still a huge hot spot, and our vaccination rollout is a disaster,”
DeSantis fundraising Committee reports $3.2 million in contributions for February. The most since October, 2018, the month before he was elected. tallahassee.com/story/news/202…
"Large contributions during the month included $500,000 from Spring Bay Capital LLLP, a investment-management firm in Ponte Vedra Beach, where DeSantis lived before becoming governor. $150k from billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones II of Palm Beach."
"The committee also reported $250,000 from former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, who has a home in Key Largo.
$100,000 from The Big Easy Casino in Hallandale Beach.
$100,000 from the Tallahassee-based Florida Prosperity Fund, affiliated with Associated Industries of Florida, the
Arguably the star exhibit is the gown and scythe belonging to the Grim Reaper, an outfit worn by a Florida attorney on several of the state’s crowded beaches last spring as he protested against the refusal of Governor Ron DeSantis to close them down.
Daniel Uhlfelder, who is from Miami and majored in history before going on to practice law in Florida’s Panhandle, said the preservation of his costume was a powerful reminder of the politicization of the pandemic.