When campaign-finance law looks like an unfunny joke

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	All right.
0:02.0	Man, we're a little over modulated there, sir.
0:05.0	A little bit.
0:06.0	Oh my God, I don't even know what's going on.
0:08.0	J. C. Feefold is in the house and taking over.
0:12.0	Hey everybody I'm Cotton Rosedale.
0:13.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart
0:14.4	where we make the day makes sense.
0:16.6	Jay likes sitting there rocking out.
0:18.3	And I am Kimberly Adams.
0:19.7	Thank you for everyone who chose to join us on this Monday January the 22nd which is pretty
0:25.2	chilly in many parts of the country including here in DC. It's 59 degrees in
0:30.4	Los Angeles we're dying man kidding me of cold yes and it's raining
0:36.8	bless your little heart I'm so sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry
0:41.3	that was genuine That was genuine.
0:44.0	You're wearing a sweatshirt and I'm wearing a sweatshirt day.
0:47.0	Yeah, look at us.
0:48.0	It is.
0:49.0	I'm trying to be cozy, man.
0:51.0	Me to be cozy.
0:52.0	Make me cozy. We should do an episode called Make Me. Make Me Coate. man. I hear you. I hear you.
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