A recent experience that delivered some poor PR for the DeSantis campaign demonstrates the fact that money isn’t the answer to everything in American politics. The pro-DeSantis Super PAC Never Back Down recently issued an offer in several battleground states for canvassers who would be paid upwards of $20 per hour to go door to door distributing campaign literature supporting the Governor’s presidential bid and drumming up support. One unnamed young man in North Carolina landed one of these jobs and donned a DeSantis t-shirt and began making the rounds. Unfortunately, he showed up at one unsupportive neighbor’s house where he was rudely told to get off of the property. Rather than moving on to the next home, the man elected to respond in a crude fashion and remain there while talking on his phone to a friend. He also confessed to being “stoned” and not caring what the neighbor thought. Even more unfortunately for the DeSantis campaign, the homeowner had a Ring doorbell video camera and the encounter quickly went viral. (Newsweek)Read More
Campaigns need volunteers, not paid stoners
